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Lancaster structural component weights needed

Hi folks, what a grand forum! Great stuff!

I’ve spent the last six months creating a 1-1 scale model of the Lanc for the Aerofly Pro Deluxe (AFPD) and now the new Aerofly 5 flight simulators and look to spend another six months before it’s finished. The model will be offered gratis with a strong suggestion that a donation to the RAF, RCAF, RAAF benevolent funds is appropriate. Here are a couple of pics:

I’m doing my best to make it look like a Lancaster. But it’s got to fly like a Lancaster as well. That means, among other things, that I have to have sensible inertia, stiffness & torsion values for the major components and their joints. I’ve got to estimate things like moments of inertia and radii of gyration. All that has got me more stressed than a banjo trying to remember things I forgot 45 years ago. Please I need some help!

What I need are weights for the major components of the Lanc. Even well-informed estimates would probably be a great help. The components are:

Fuselage
Front Turret FN5……………………………….237 lb (107 kg) empty
Mid-upper Turret FN50………………………..879 lb (400 kg) operational including gunner, 340 lb (155 kg) empty without guns
Tail Turret FN20……………………………….1350 lb (614 kg) operational weight including gunner, 325 lb (148 kg) empty without guns
Tail wheel strut
Tail wheel
Left wing including engine nacelles
RR Merlin XX plus propeller……………………1,430lb (687 kg) plus 12ft prop (needle or paddle or both) NOT YET known
Main undercarriage
Main undercarriage wheel
Left Tailplane and elevator
Left fin and rudder

I’ll add values to this post, as I have done, when I get them.
Many, many thanks
Mike

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