As the designer of the Lancaster, the RAF’s workhouse heavy bomber of WW2, Roy Chadwick deserves to be lauded as a ‘Great’; it was his invention that delivered perhaps the most famed precision air ...
The airworthy bomber, Lancaster PA474, was built at the Vickers ... many more years the Lancaster will be permitted to ...
The RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) said the Lancaster bomber, one of the most famous aircraft of World War Two, is ready to fly following repairs over the winter. In a statement ...
It is one of only two Lancasters still in flying condition, and the only one in the UK. "We are pleased to confirm that after a successful post-maintenance air test, Lancaster PA474 is airworthy ...
The bomber, which was built in 1945 ... "extensive inspections and testing" before being cleared to fly again. Claire Hartley Lancaster PA474 was built at the Vickers Armstrong Broughton factory ...
Flying Officer William Horace Dyke ... But who made the weathervane in the shape of a Lancaster bomber – and who engraved ...