 | | Avro 683 Lancaster
1. Lancaster B.Mk.I. Unit: 16th TRAO, Belomorsk Military Flotilla. Serial: 01 (ex ME559). Crew commander - V.Sh.Evdokimov, navigator - V.Ya.Andreev. One of the six Lancasters abandoned by British at Soviets airfields in Archangelsk region. Two of
them were repaired in served with Soviets. This Lancaster was unarmament and used for transport and patrol since January 1945.
2. Lancaster B.Mk.I. Unit: 44 (Rhodesian) Sqn, RAF. Serial: KM-O (R5540). RAF Waddington, England. This aircraft was lost in a January 1943 crash.
3. Lancaster B.Mk.I. Unit: 9 Sqn, RAF. Serial: WS-Y (LM220). The depicted Avro Lancaster Mk.I flew with 9th Bomber Squadron in Bardney. It was equipped with extended drop gear to hitch the 'Tallboy' heavy bomb. This airplane took part in two attacks of German battleship Tirpitz which was anchored in Kaafjord in Norway, being piloted by F/Lt W.Tweddle.
4. Lancaster B.Mk.I "Jak Bus". Unit: 300 Sqn, RAF. Serial: BH-B (PB705)
5. Lancaster B.III "Uncle Joe" / "100 UP TONIGHT". Unit: 463 Sqn, RAAF. Serial: JO-U (ED611). Waddington, September 1944.
6. Lancaster B.Mk.I "Uncle Joe Again!". Unit: 463 Sqn, RAAF. Serial: JO-U (RF141). Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK, winter 1945.
7. Lancaster B.I Unit: 12 Sqn, RAF. Serial: PH-V (W4794). Wickenby, Lincolnshire, UK, 1942. [B.I/III] More |
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 | | AM-20: The Avro Lancaster (including the Manchester) Part 1 - Wartime Service
- A Complete Guide to the RAF's Legendary Heavy Bomber by Richard A. Franks
This covers the Avro Manchester and Lancaster B Mks I, II, III & VI in RAF (inc. RCAF/RAAF) service in WWII
The Avro Lancaster Part 2 will cover postwar variants, use by foreign air forces, civilian types, both Lancaster and Lancastrian, and trials and test-bed machines. This volume will published later this year. Full details of its contents will be announced in due course.
The Lancaster has been a popular aircraft type with modellers and has recently been the subject of several new toolings in all scales, especially in 1/32nd and 1/48th. Our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the different variants and detail differences that apply to the type. It will contain at least 272 pages packed with vital information that no active modeller and RAF Bomber Command enthusiast should be without.
They each contain:
60+ pages of technical information
60+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams
8+ pages of camouflage and markings
25+ pages of model builds and modelling information
200+ photographs including wartime images
Colour side views and four-views by Richard J. Caruana
3D isometric views of all variants by Juraj Jankovic
Specially commissioned extensive full kit builds by Steve A. Evans
Specially commissioned front cover artwork by Jerry Boucher
Bonus set of scale plans [B.I/III B.III] More |
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 | | RAF XV Squadron History (6)
Bristol Scout C 5313 RFC France 1916;
Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV L8852 LS-Q RAF Wyton 1940;
Short Stirling Mk.I N6086 LS-F McRoberts Reply RAF Wyton 1942;
Avro Lancaster B.III (Special) PD131 LS-V RAF Bovington 1946;
Tornado GR.1 ZA446/F McRoberts Reply RAFG Laarbruch 1990;
Tornado GR.4 ZA602/F W/C J.P.Nixon/Sl.Ldr P. Abbott, RAF Lossiemouth 2015; More |
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