The Manchester and the ‘Lincoln Imps’

NO 61 SQUADRON MANCHESTERS The first squadron to fly a new aircraft can anticipate its share of teething troubles. The third might expect them to have been largely sorted out. Not so for No 61 Squadron and the benighted Avro Manchester, as the story of its short time on the type — accompanied by some rare photographs — shows. But, as we recount in the first of this month’s special features on Avro’s piston-engined ‘heavies’, it also started more than