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The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber.It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same era.
In 1975 a mid-upper turret was found in Argentina and fitted. [2] During the winter of 1995 the Lancaster was fitted with a new main spar to extend the flying life. [2] On 7 May 2015, the aircraft suffered a fire in its starboard outer engine. A safe landing was made at RAF Coningsby.
The Rose turret (sometimes known as the Rose-Rice turret) was a gun turret fitted to the rear position of some British Avro Lancaster heavy bombers in 1944–45. It was armed with two American 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) light-barrel Browning AN/M2 heavy machine guns — the standard American defensive weapon used in turreted and flexible mounts in the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 ...
The 1948 Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster crash took place on 3 September 1948, operated by the Royal Air Force with an Avro Lancaster B Mk III GR. The aircraft crashed on the slopes of "Colle dei Lecci" on the island of Montecristo (at about 300 m, 980 ft altitude). The crash and subsequent fire resulted in the deaths of all seven occupants of ...
Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh DFC & Bar, DFM (27 March 1920 – 4 June 2007) flew 55 bombing missions with the RAF during the Second World War as a rear gunner in Lancaster bombers. McIntosh was regarded as the most successful air gunner in Bomber Command during the Second World War, and was credited with shooting down eight enemy aircraft.
On the night of 24 March 1944, 21-year-old Alkemade was one of seven crew members in Avro Lancaster B Mk.II, DS664, of No. 115 Squadron RAF. [1] Returning from a 300-bomber-raid on Berlin, east of Schmallenberg, DS664 was attacked by a German Junkers Ju 88 night-fighter flown by Oberleutnant Heinz Rökker of Nachtjagdgeschwader 2, [2] the attack caused the Lancaster to catch fire and began to ...
The AGLT Village Inn FN121 tail turret as fitted on a Lancaster – the bulbous radome covers the parabolic scanning aerial.. The Automatic Gun-Laying Turret (AGLT), also known as the Frazer-Nash FN121, was a radar-directed, rear gun turret fitted to some British bombers from 1944.
The badge is symbolic of the squadron's power to force its way through barrage of fire and fighter opposition to drop its bombs. It can also be taken as symbolic of the squadron's raids with both incendiary and high-explosive bombs. [1] Squadron Codes: BQ (Nov 1943 – Oct 1945) [3] [4] Aircraft flown; Bomber: Avro Lancaster Four-engined heavy ...