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ME453
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I was surprised to see that F/O Rowland Ward, pilot of Lancaster ME453 of 467 squadron RAAF was only 5’5″ tall, weighing in at 8st 3lbs. As a Lanc flight engineer recently said to me, they were easy to fly but not “fly by wire”!
Max Williams
Portland