My late father, 563828 Cyril Frank William Langsdale, was a Halton brat and had a similar set of notebooks covering the rigging of 1920s aircraft – unfortunately I was abroad when he died and the notebooks, along with much more historical material, including photographs on board HMS Eagle in China prewar, were thrown away before I arrived the next day! If scanning had existed in those days, I too would have been able to inherit some gold dust!

landyman, that was the Dovern test bed, a Lancaster that was converted in the UK and sold to the Swedes to test the Dovern turbojet engine in an under-fuselage nacelle. It first flew as an engine test bed on May 3, 1951, long, long after the date sought in this thread!

Sorry, JF, no offence intended, (the intention was self-deprecatory!) but since the first flight (according to Avro/Putnams) of VH742 was August 8, 1946, and this is the first Lancaster mentioned in that configuration by that (probably reliable) source, perhaps your veteran has confused the configuration – could the RATO have been in fact the single tail-mounted turbojet instead?
If there was an outboard nacelle-mounted configuation Lancaster around in 1943, I for one would be extremely interested in reading about it!
Perhaps the answer lies in a book on early turbojets; my tiny library unfortunately does not include such a book.

I think the first Lancaster design (Lancastrian 1) to carry jet engines was VH742, first flown at Hucknall by Sqn Ldr R. T. Shepherd on August 8, 1946 with two Nene 1 turbojets in the outer nacelles.
Source Avro/Putnams

Waldo Pepper DVD

My DVD copy of “Waldo Pepper” has a Swedish title “Tid för hjältar” but the audio is in English. I picked it up in a local supermarket sale for next to nothing but it works fine! It carries the reference number DVD 902 332 9 – 48.
Saw the Jenny at Creve Coeur, USA, in 2003.

Oz Lincoln Mk 31

Don’t go poking your big nose into this, John!

I was working in the control tower as a J/T radar fitter at Cottesmore 1962-63 and do remember we had one BoB Day, but not any details, I was probably too busy! My main memory of it was clearing up tons of rubbish the day after!

Please, please, please, not this again!!!