{"id":4943,"date":"2025-09-06T01:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/4943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:18:16","slug":"norton-disney-lancaster-bomber-sculpture-to-be-installed-this-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/4943\/","title":{"rendered":"Norton Disney Lancaster bomber sculpture to be installed this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police will escort a vehicle carrying the sculpture&#8217;s wings from Timmins Engineering in Market Rasen, to Bomber County Gateway, Norton Disney, on Saturday. It will set off at 09:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The wings are each 14.5m (47.6ft) in length, 5.96m (19.6ft) in width, 4.8m (15.7ft) in height.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lincolnshire Police said the vehicle would move slowly, with speed dependant on conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We appreciate it can be frustrating being delayed on the road and we thank you for your patience,&#8221; the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr White said assembling the structure would be &#8220;quite challenging&#8221;, requiring two cranes to lift it. It then has to be tilted to create a flight-like angle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s nearly eight years ago since we first had the idea of doing this iconic landmark,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project launched on 1 April 2018 &#8211; the RAF&#8217;s centenary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the future we will open the site up so people can walk underneath it,&#8221; said Mr White, adding that it would help educate people about &#8220;what the RAF did for our county&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police will escort a vehicle carrying the sculpture&#8217;s wings from Timmins Engineering in Market Rasen, to Bomber County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}