And these- The rather impressive photo which shows several Lincolns (and a lone Lancaster (s/n B-039) was taken at the Vth Air Brigade, Villa Reynolds (San Luis) c. 1960
All I can say is, if I had to do a bombing mission in one of these late war planes, I'd have to pick the B-29 to do it in.
Amen to that..particularly if it was a long range mission..aside from all its other advantages, the B-29 was roomier..and while it was "all-business" was more "crew-friendly"..Mind you, l have been "inside' one of the preserved Lincolns in Argentina and the sole remaining airworthy B-29 when it stoped at the old Curtiiss-Wright airfield at Hasbrocuk Heights (NJ) in only one ocassion., but found the B-29 more convenient for someone my size...
Vickers Windsor How would the Vickers Windsor (in the various engine otions proposed) have compared to other bombers?
Super Stirling Does anyone know anything about the Super Stirling proposed in late 1941 - basically an enlarged Stirling with a wingspan of 136ft and 4 Centaurus engines (but still lousy ceiling) and able to carry 6 x 4,000;b Cookies in its fuselage bomb bay plus 6 x 1,000lb bombs in wing cells. Its described in RAF Bomber Command and its aircrfat 1941 - 1945 by James Goulding and Stephen Moyes.
Apparently, testing to destruction showed that the wings could yaw up to 8 feet before detaching from the plane... I was leafing through an old copy of 'Air Britain Digest' and discovered that at least 2 Lancasters found their way into Soviet Service. Both were modified with a 'Halifax - style' nose (streamlined glazing) and entered service with Transport Squadrons in the Soviet Navy (designated 01 & 02). One was apparently encountered flying down the English Channel!
Ricky stated :" I was leafing through an old copy of 'Air Britain Digest' and discovered that at least 2 Lancasters found their way into Soviet Service. Both were modified with a 'Halifax - style' nose (streamlined glazing) and entered service with Transport Squadrons in the Soviet Navy (designated 01 & 02). One was apparently encountered flying down the English Channel!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Which in a roundabout way proves my point..had the Russians thought it wortwhile they would have taken the trouble to develop a gigantic factory to produce these aircraft, as they did with the Boeing B-29....However, something just struck me as l re-read your post..a Russian Lancaster flying down the English Channel..wonder what they were up to?.no good in all likelyhood...
No idea! That is exactly the question posed in the magazine. They even wondered how it got there - it could have reached the Engish Channel from the Soviet Zone of Germany, but it seems that there were no Naval units there... Although it could have been a recovered Lanc 'liberated' from the Germans. Oh, and given the choice of Lanc or B29, guess which any self-respecting Superpower would pick!
Probably a Soviet equivalent f KG 200?...now your other comment-thatt hey were probably recovered "Lancs"liberated from the Germans also struck a chord in my memory banks...It seems like a Luftwaffe Dornier Do 24 either strayed or crash landed into Sweden prior to V-E day.At the end of the war the Ruskis demanded the return of that particular aircraft, (reportedly because it had taken off from a base now in their zone of occupation...) and pressed the point until 1951, when after many notes and counternotes the Swedes relented and released the Dornier....
