Operation Chastise - Lancaster B1 engine servicing

[Dave Kearton[_3_]]

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[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

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Merlin?

[The Raven[_2_]]

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Was there any other engine for the Lanc? I'm not trying to be smart but if
there was another engine type for the Lanc I've never heard of it.

[Dave Kearton[_3_]]

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Lancaster Mk IIs used Bristol Hercules



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[hielan' laddie]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 05:36:20 -0400, Alan Erskine wrote
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Of course it's a bloody Merlin, thou berk. It's clearly a V-12 inline
internal combustion engine mounted on what's obviously a wartime operational
Lancaster, which makes it a Merlin. The majority of Lancs were fitted with
Merlins, and the majority of those _not_ fitted with Merlins had Hercules
_radial_ engines... and _all_ Lancs not fitted with either Merlins or
Hercules were either limited wartime editions, which did _not_ go into
squadron service in the field, or post-war systems.

[hielan' laddie]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 06:42:50 -0400, The Raven wrote
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The wartime BII Lancs had Bristol Hercules radial motors.

[Mitchell Holman[_4_]]

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Dress uniforms to do engine work?

[Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]]

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It's a Brit thing.

[Alan Erskine[_3_]]

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With screwdriver in hand; sure it's not a Hughes photo? ;-)

[Dave Kearton[_3_]]

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That struck me as odd as well. They have an overall uniform for grubby
work, perhaps not while photographers are about.




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[Robert Sveinson]

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There were radial engined Lancasters as well!



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[hielan' laddie]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 08:12:31 -0400, Mitchell Holman wrote
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Posed pix. Nothing to do with reality.

[Conscious Pilate[_3_]]

for the general edification of the group

see ya

Conscious Pilate

[hielan' laddie]

On Thu, 28 May 2009 07:15:15 -0400, Conscious Pilate wrote
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The first pic was one of several different Lancs used as test beds for
turbojets or turboprops after the war (note post-war colour scheme and
roundels; this one was, I think, a Lancastrian I, with Rolls-Royce Nene
motors in the outer nacelles). The second was a Lanc B II, with Bristol
Hercules engines. That particular machine has a bulged bomb-bay and a
daylight camouflage scheme. It might, I think, be a post-war pic of a machine
on maritime recon duty, carrying depth charges, anti-submarine torpedoes, and
a life rift in the bomb-bay. I can't tell much, the pic has been edited to
remove the squadron identification markings and the serial number.

Other Lancs fitted with jets included a B II which flew as a test aircraft
during the war, with a jet in the fuselage.
<http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/Histories/Lancaster/Lancaster.htm>

Note that the specs on the page are for a B I, when the top pic is a B II.
Note also that they spelled 'Nene' as 'Nean'.

[Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF[_2_]]

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Is it my eyes or are the Lancastrian's props feathered?


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Innisfail
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Australia






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