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A Lancaster bomber has performed a special flight to mark the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters raids.<\/p>\n
The plane, from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, took off from its home base of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and flew over the RAF Museum in Hendon, north-west London, just after 18:00 BST.<\/p>\n
It then returned north towards the former airfields of its home county and visited 28 sites, including the International Bomber Command Memorial near Lincoln, before heading back to Coningsby.<\/p>\n
Fifty-three airmen were killed in the famous mission, which targeted three German dams on the 16 and 17 May 1943.<\/p>\n
It is the first year events are taking place without any surviving crew after the death of the last surviving Dambuster, Sqn Ldr George ‘Johnny’ Johnson, aged 101 in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n