Whenever the United Kingdom's Bomber Command was tasked with challenging missions, such as sinking the Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz, they always knew which aircraft to use: the Avro Lancaster ...
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24 Cylinders, 2 Engines, 1 Catastrophe: The Bomber That Birthed the Lancaster
The Avro Manchester was an ambitious twin-engine bomber powered by 24-cylinder Vulture engines that constantly overheated. Only 200 were built, with 77 lost in combat. Yet from this failure emerged 70 ...
A life-size sculpture of a Lancaster bomber is to be installed next to the A46 this weekend. The steel structure, which honours World War Two RAF crews, was revealed to the public last September. It ...
World War II was the height of industrialized total war. Nations clashed on the sea, land, and in the air. Entire economies retooled with the express purpose of filling a vast global supply chain of ...
A life-size sculpture of a Lancaster bomber has been put up in honour of the RAF crews of World War Two. The steel structure was assembled earlier next to the A46 in Norton Disney, Lincolnshire. Two ...
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