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The Windsor Historical Society brings you footage from the 2006 Lancaster-Warbird Reunion with an educational perspective. Learn about the Lancaster's beginnings with the A.V. Roe Company and the bomber's contributions to the World War II effort.
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For the last three years of the Second World War the Avro Lancaster was the major heavy bomber used by Bomber Command to take the war to the heart-land of Nazi Germany.
It resulted from design work undertaken by Roy Chadwick and his Avro team to overcome the problems experienced with the twin-engined Manchester bomber. The prototype made its first flight in January 1941.
With an impressive performance and excellent flying characteristics it soon established its superiority over other allied four-engined bombers operating in Europe.
The industrial and military organisation needed to build and operate the Lancaster was huge. Six major companies built 7377 aircraft at ten factories on two continents; at the height of production over 1,100,000 men and women were employed working for over 920 companies. More service personnel were involved in flying and maintaining it than any other British aircraft in history.
The Lancaster's operational career is littered with impressive statistics, some are set out below, but it is worth remembering that the average age of the seven-man crew was only 22 years. They endured danger and discomfort and many showed great courage in continuing to fly knowing the odds against survival were high. Bomber Command suffered the highest casualty rate of any branch of the British services in the Second World War.
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The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving with RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it became affectionately known[1], became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties." [2] Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams. |
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This video shows the AVRO Lancaster during the KLU open days on airbase Gilze-Rijen on June 17-18th. 2005.
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Le Lancaster a été sans conteste l'arme offensive de la R.A.F lors de la seconde guerre mondiale. De 1942 à la fin de la guerre, il fut, grâce à sa capacité exceptionnelle d'emport de bombes, un acteur majeur dans les bombardements stratégiques. En voir plus sur : http://www.vodeo.tv/4-132-4019-le-avro-lancaster.html?PARTID=9085 |
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For all those nuts who think the only music is Merlin music. I hope it placates your insatiable appetite and stops you pestering me for more. The engines on this Lancaster were often fitted to Spitfires, Hurricanes and numerous other aircraft during WWII.
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The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving with RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it became affectionately known, became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties." Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams.
The origins of the Lancaster lie in a twin-engined bomber design powered by Rolls-Royce Vulture engines submitted to Specification P.13/36 which was for a new generation of twin-engined medium bombers. The resulting aircraft was the Avro Manchester, which, although a capable aircraft, was troubled by the unreliability of the Vulture and withdrawn from service in 1942, by which point 200 aircraft had been built.
Avro's chief designer, Roy Chadwick, was already working on an improved Manchester design using four of the more reliable but less powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin engines on a larger wing. The aircraft was initially designated Avro Type 683 Manchester III, and later re-named the Lancaster. The prototype aircraft BT308 was assembled by Avro's experimental flight department at Manchester's Ringway Airport from where test pilot H.A. "Bill" Thorn took the controls for its first flight on Thursday, 9 January 1941. The aircraft proved to be a great improvement on its predecessor, being "one of the few warplanes in history to be 'right' from the start." Its initial three-finned tail layout, a result of being converted from a Manchester I, was quickly changed on the second prototype DG595 and subsequent production aircraft to the familiar twin-finned specification used on the later Manchesters (below).
Some of the later orders for Manchesters were changed in favour of Lancasters; the designs were very similar and both featured the same distinctive greenhouse cockpit, turret nose and twin tail. The Lancaster discarded the stubby central third tail fin of the early Manchesters and used the wider span tailplane and larger elliptical twin fins from the later Manchester IA.
The majority of Lancasters built during the war years were manufactured by Avro at their factory at Chadderton near Manchester and test flown from Woodford Aerodrome in Cheshire. Other Lancasters were built by Metropolitan-Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth. The aircraft was also produced at the Austin Motor Company works in Longbridge, Birmingham later in the Second World War and postwar at Chester by Vickers-Armstrongs. Only 300 of the Lancaster B II with Bristol Hercules engines were constructed. The Lancaster B III had Packard Merlin engines but was otherwise identical to contemporary B Is, with 3,030 B IIIs built, almost all at A.V. Roe's Newton Heath factory. The B I and B III were built concurrently, and minor modifications were made to both marks as new batches were ordered. Examples of these modifications were the relocation of the pitot head from the nose to the side of the cockpit, and the change from de Havilland "needle blade" propellers to Hamilton Standard or Nash Kelvinator made "paddle blade" propellers.
A total of 7,377 Lancasters of all marks were built throughout the duration of the war, each at a 1943 cost of £45-50,000 (approximately equivalent to £1.3-1.5 million in 2005 currency).
The test pilot Alex Henshaw is the only known pilot to have barrel rolled a Lancaster bomber, a feat considered almost impossible because of the slow speed of the aircraft.
General characteristics
Crew: 7: pilot, flight engineer, navigator, bomb aimer, wireless operator, mid-upper and rear gunners
Length: 69 ft 5 in (21.18 m)
Wingspan: 102 ft (31.09 m)
Height: 19 ft 7 in (5.97 m)
Wing area: 1,300 ft² (120 m²)
Empty weight: 36 828 lb (16,705 kg)
Loaded weight: 63,000 lb (29,000 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Rolls-Royce Merlin XX V12 engines, 1,280 hp (954 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 240 knots (280 mph, 450 km/h) at 15,000 ft (5,600 m)
Range: 2,700 nm (3,000 mi, 4,600 km) with minimal bomb load
Service ceiling: 23,500 ft (8,160 m)
Wing loading: 48 lb/ft² (240 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.081 hp/lb (130 W/kg)
Armament
Guns: 8× 0.303 in (7.70 mm) Browning machine guns in three turrets
Bombs:
Maximum: 22,000 lb (10,000 kg)
Typical: 14,000 lb (6,400 kg) |
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Filmed at East Kirby Aviation Heritage Centre in Lincolnshire this is one of those things that you see that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end !.Unfortunately the sound i recorded was terrible, so i have had to overlay with a nice Mike Oldfield track !. Watch out for the Spitfire at the end...Lovely ! |
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The story of JB659 'J-Johnny', a 97 Squadron Lancaster of the Pathfinder Force, from manufacture to destruction, to the burial of her crews remains in 2001. |
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The story of JB659 'J-Johnny', a 97 Squadron Lancaster of the Pathfinder Force, from manufacture to destruction, to the burial of her crews remains in 2001. |
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Avro Lancaster Old clips inc Very low flypast and dropping the 22,000ib Grand Slam bomb,
No sound on clips,
Not sure who filmed these but let me know and ill update this or delete it,Just clearing off my hard drive of some great aviation videos that deserve to be seen, |
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Lancaster landing at North Weald Airshow 1993 |
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Taxi Test of my Avro Lancaster RC scratch build before its maiden flight |
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Lancaster Bomber flies past for the airshow at the Hamilton Warplane Heritage Museum , June 17, 2007 |
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http://www.webalice.it/romanoarchives/
In 1941 Charles Portal of the British Air Staff advocated that entire cities and towns should be bombed. Portal claimed that this would quickly bring about the collapse of civilian morale in Germany. Air Marshall Arthur Harris agreed and when he became head of RAF Bomber Command in February 1942, he introduced a policy of area bombing (known in Germany as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.
One tactic used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force was the creation of firestorms. This was achieved by dropping incendiary bombs, filled with highly combustible chemicals such as magnesium, phosphorus or petroleum jelly (napalm), in clusters over a specific target. After the area caught fire, the air above the bombed area, become extremely hot and rose rapidly. Cold air then rushed in at ground level from the outside and people were sucked into the fire.
In 1945, Arthur Harris decided to create a firestorm in the medieval city of Dresden. He considered it a good target as it had not been attacked during the war and was virtually undefended by anti-aircraft guns. The population of the city was now far greater than the normal 650,000 due to the large numbers of refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army.
On the 13th February 1945, 773 Avro Lancasters bombed Dresden. During the next two days the USAAF sent over 527 heavy bombers to follow up the RAF attack. Dresden was nearly totally destroyed. As a result of the firestorm it was afterwards impossible to count the number of victims.
The bombing of Dresden remains one of the most controversial events of World War II.
Although the Allies considered Dresden a military target, several historians regard Dresden more as a cultural landmark than anything else and assert that the number of civilians killed (over 150.000) was excessive to a criminal degree. (In the first few decades after the war, some death toll estimates were as high as 250.000...)
The raids saw 1.300 heavy bombers drop over 3.900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices in four raids, destroying 13 square miles (34 km²) of the city, the baroque capital of the German state of Saxony, and causing a firestorm that consumed the city centre.
Filmed on board of the Avro-Lancaster RAF British bomber we see lifting-off at the beginning of the video, this rare find comes with the original captured soundtrack of radio communications between the bombardier and the rest of the crew. Recently declassified RAF footage.
Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES.
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A video from a legendary Avro lancaster |
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The first public tail up taxy run by preserved Avro Lancaster NX611 at East Kirkby, Lincs on Saturday 16th September 2006. |
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NX611 'Just Jane' conducts her first public 'tail up' fast taxi on the new grass strip at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at the former wartime RAF station East Kirkby. |
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the just jane lancaster bomber at the east kirkby aviation museum in lincolnshire, uk |
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"Low and over - Toronto, Ontario - Centre Island Airport |
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The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Avro Lancaster takes off at the 2007 Gathering of Mustangs event in Columbus Ohio at Rickenbacker Airfield. |
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AVRO LANCASTER DISPLAYS AT TURWESTON DURING THE VINTAGE AIRCRAFT CLUB FLY IN .
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Avro Lancaster flypast at the Heckington Show near Sleaford in Lincolnshire UK, on Sunday the 29th of Junly 2007 |
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Maiden flight of my scratch build CorFlute Avro Lancaster. Flight, spin and crash. |
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Excellent color footage, with sound, of a "Lancaster" bombing raid. The "Lancaster" bomber was known for its amazing lifting capacity; 14,000 bomb load or (1) 22,000lb "Grand Slam" bomb. Famous for the Dambuster and Tirpitz sinking, raids |
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The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the RCAF and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it became affectionately known,[1] became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties."[2] Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams. |
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Flypast of AVRO LANCASTER PA474 of the BBMF @ RIAT 2007 . |
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Take-off - 1st of a series of Lancaster
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Short clip of a Lancaster bomber from World War 2, part of the Battle of Britain flight, Filmed at Rolls Royce 100th year celebration airshow. |
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east kirkby, lincolnshire,uk the mighty lancaster bomber |
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"The Brylcreem Boys",FlightCrew fatigue, Play from 1979. A frostbite case ends up in a ward
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Video of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Avro Lancaster, shot at the annual airshow in Hamilton, Ontario, June, 2001
I'm dedicating this video to all the men and women of all the Allies, who helped to build and keep 'em flying. (including my mom & dad)
The music is Vera Lynn singing "Wish Me Luck" and "The Dambusters March" from the film of the same name. |
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Piccolo video di Battle of Europe dove si vede un bombardiere quadrimotore che distrugge sottomarini e incrociatori tedeschi.
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Just a little video of Battle Of Europe, BlackBean games. One Avro Lancaster destroy various war unit. |
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Flypast of avro lancaster PA474 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RIAT 2007 . |
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October 13th 2007 flight from Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum to Toronto - view from top gunner's position. |
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The same video of the Avro Lancaster from Battle Of Europe by BlackBean games. New version.
Music: In The End, Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory. |
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"The Brylcream Boys", Play of the Week from
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"The Brylcream Boys", Play of the Week from 1979.
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"The Brylcream Boys", Play of the Week from
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