Happy birthday Avro Lancaster

Happy 83rd Birthday to the Lancaster… Designed by Roy Chadwick the aircraft design engineering genius, of course. 

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Well the 60th anniversary was in 2001 along with the 60th anniversary of the 1st Operational sortie by the Mosquito and I have the watch and certificate to prove it. :eagerness:

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The B-29 was more powerful, faster, could fly higher and was pressurised!
And the USAAF lost proportionally fewer B-17s than the RAF did Lancasters.

QUOTE “The R-3350 got its real “test and development” in combat, where engine problems brought down more B-29s than the Japanese. “

The iconic aeroplane of bomber command as were the crews that flew in them.

What does ‘proportionally’ mean?

Per sortie flown? Per ton of bombs delivered? Per mile flown? As a percentage of aircraft despatched? Over the same 1943-5 timescale?

Meaningless statistic there.

Moggy

The B-29 was more powerful, faster, could fly higher and was pressurised!
And the USAAF lost proportionally fewer B-17s than the RAF did Lancasters.

Finest 4 engined bomber? In what parallel universe??

The parallel universe that was Nazi occupied Europe mate…

Pete

Finest 4 engined bomber? In what parallel universe??

Should have put production.

Actually the prototype BT308 first flew on the 9th January 1941 So your a tad out on the date.