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The Avro Lancaster The Windsor Historical Society brings you footage from the 2006 Lancaster-Warbird Reunion with an educational perspective. Learn about the Lancaster's beginnings with the A.V. Roe Company and the bomber's contributions to the World War II effort. www.windsorhistoricalsociety.com Tags: andreea34 Lancaster Avro WWII bomber airplane warbird aircraft history

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Avro Lancaster Taxi Avro Lancaster taxi view from radio operators seat Tags: Warbird Aviation WW2 Aircraft Avro Lancaster Flying Merlin Just_Jane East_Kirby

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Merlin Madness - Just Jane - Engine Music - Avro Lancaster For all those nuts who think the only music is Merlin music. I hope it placates your insatiable appetite and stops you pestering me for more. The engines on this Lancaster were often fitted to Spitfires, Hurricanes and numerous other aircraft during WWII. Comments disabled due too much spam! Video responses are still available. Tags: Lancaster Avro Merlin Music Just Jane Spitfire WWII WW2 World War WW11 Hurricane

User: vulcanfanman

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AVRO Lancaster Production The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving with RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it became affectionately known, became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties." Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams. The origins of the Lancaster lie in a twin-engined bomber design powered by Rolls-Royce Vulture engines submitted to Specification P.13/36 which was for a new generation of twin-engined medium bombers. The resulting aircraft was the Avro Manchester, which, although a capable aircraft, was troubled by the unreliability of the Vulture and withdrawn from service in 1942, by which point 200 aircraft had been built. Avro's chief designer, Roy Chadwick, was already working on an improved Manchester design using four of the more reliable but less powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin engines on a larger wing. The aircraft was initially designated Avro Type 683 Manchester III, and later re-named the Lancaster. The prototype aircraft BT308 was assembled by Avro's experimental flight department at Manchester's Ringway Airport from where test pilot H.A. "Bill" Thorn took the controls for its first flight on Thursday, 9 January 1941. The aircraft proved to be a great improvement on its predecessor, being "one of the few warplanes in history to be 'right' from the start." Its initial three-finned tail layout, a result of being converted from a Manchester I, was quickly changed on the second prototype DG595 and subsequent production aircraft to the familiar twin-finned specification used on the later Manchesters (below). Some of the later orders for Manchesters were changed in favour of Lancasters; the designs were very similar and both featured the same distinctive greenhouse cockpit, turret nose and twin tail. The Lancaster discarded the stubby central third tail fin of the early Manchesters and used the wider span tailplane and larger elliptical twin fins from the later Manchester IA. The majority of Lancasters built during the war years were manufactured by Avro at their factory at Chadderton near Manchester and test flown from Woodford Aerodrome in Cheshire. Other Lancasters were built by Metropolitan-Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth. The aircraft was also produced at the Austin Motor Company works in Longbridge, Birmingham later in the Second World War and postwar at Chester by Vickers-Armstrongs. Only 300 of the Lancaster B II with Bristol Hercules engines were constructed. The Lancaster B III had Packard Merlin engines but was otherwise identical to contemporary B Is, with 3,030 B IIIs built, almost all at A.V. Roe's Newton Heath factory. The B I and B III were built concurrently, and minor modifications were made to both marks as new batches were ordered. Examples of these modifications were the relocation of the pitot head from the nose to the side of the cockpit, and the change from de Havilland "needle blade" propellers to Hamilton Standard or Nash Kelvinator made "paddle blade" propellers. A total of 7,377 Lancasters of all marks were built throughout the duration of the war, each at a 1943 cost of £45-50,000 (approximately equivalent to £1.3-1.5 million in 2005 currency). The test pilot Alex Henshaw is the only known pilot to have barrel rolled a Lancaster bomber, a feat considered almost impossible because of the slow speed of the aircraft. General characteristics Crew: 7: pilot, flight engineer, navigator, bomb aimer, wireless operator, mid-upper and rear gunners Length: 69 ft 5 in (21.18 m) Wingspan: 102 ft (31.09 m) Height: 19 ft 7 in (5.97 m) Wing area: 1,300 ft² (120 m²) Empty weight: 36 828 lb (16,705 kg) Loaded weight: 63,000 lb (29,000 kg) Powerplant: 4× Rolls-Royce Merlin XX V12 engines, 1,280 hp (954 kW) each Performance Maximum speed: 240 knots (280 mph, 450 km/h) at 15,000 ft (5,600 m) Range: 2,700 nm (3,000 mi, 4,600 km) with minimal bomb load Service ceiling: 23,500 ft (8,160 m) Wing loading: 48 lb/ft² (240 kg/m²) Power/mass: 0.081 hp/lb (130 W/kg) Armament Guns: 8× 0.303 in (7.70 mm) Browning machine guns in three turrets Bombs: Maximum: 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) Typical: 14,000 lb (6,400 kg) Tags: AVRO Lancaster ww2 bomber aviation history

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The Avro Arrow Assassination (Pt-1) The Dismantellation of Canada´s War Aircraft Industry. In April 1953 the RCAF released their demanding specifications for a new supersonic interceptor, known as Air-7-3, "Design Studies of a Prototype Supersonic All-Weather Aircraft", which called for a craft that could function in the uniquely Canadian context of a vast northern wasteland. The twin-engined, two-seat fighter should be able to operate from a 6000 ft runway, have a range of 600 nautical miles (11000km). It was to cruise and combat at Mach 1.5 at an altitude of 50,000 feet and be capable of pulling 2g in maneuvers with no loss of speed or altitude. It was to be equipped with an all-missile weapon system which would operate either independently or as part of an integrated defence system. The time from a signal to start the engines to the aircraft's reaching an altitude of 50,000 feet and a speed of Mach 1.5 was to be less than five minutes. The Arrow Mk.2 was to be powered by two Orenda PS-13 Iroquois engines, the development of which was begun in 1953. It was designed to deliver 8,720kg dry thrust and 11,800kg with afterburner. The final Arrow Mk.3, with even better engines, was expected to fly at Mach 2.5. Because the Iroquois would not be available for the first prototypes, it was decided to use the Pratt & Whitney J75 to power the Mark 1 prototypes and pre-series aircraft. The thrust of the J75-P-3 with full afterburner was 8390kg, equivalent to the maximal dry thrust of the Iroquois. The engines were installed at the extremities of the aft fuselage, with the engine nozzles projecting well beyond the wing trailing edge and the tail. The Iroquois' weight-to-thrust ratio made it the most powerful engine of the American continent. Development costs had not amounted to more than 90 million dollars, inexpensive even in the 1950's. The Arrow's complex and expensive radar and fire control system ended up being one of its major Achilles heels. The original idea was to fit the Arrow with Falcon guided missiles built by Hughes Aircraft, along with a Hughes guidance system. However the RCAF, against the advice of Avro and the USAF, decided to adopt the more-complex Sparrow II missile, then under development for the U.S. Navy. They ordered a new Canadian-built guidance system called the Astra, to marry the missile to the Arrow. Unfortunately, the U.S. Navy cancelled the Sparrow development in 1956. The Arrow was rolled out to an admiring public of 12,000 people on Oct 4th, 1957. After a period of elaborate tests including engine ground running tests, low speed taxi trials, high speed taxi trials and many hours in the most advanced flight simulator in Canada, the aircraft was ready for its first flight. Just before 10 a.m. on March 25th 1958, most of the staff of Avro poured out as loudpeakers invited all non-essential workers to watch the Arrow's maiden flight, with Janusz Zurakowski at the helm. At 9:51 a.m. the Arrow lifted off, barely halfway down the 3,368 metre runway. At 1525 metres Zurakowski requested check on the nose wheel landing gear door because the safety light in the cockpit indicated it was open. The speed was then boosted from 200 knots to 250 knots and the Arrow moved up to 3350 metres. After 35 minutes, the airplane landed. The first flight was a success, and only two microswitches had failed to respond. Zura's only complaint was that there was no clock in the cockpit to tell the time. Upon leaving the craft, he was hoisted on the shoulders of the crowd like a hero. On August 23rd the aircraft was taken to supersonic speeds for the first time. That week speeds up to Mach 1.7 were recorded. The program had its share of small problems.In general, as testing continued, the Arrow grew easier to handle. Speeds needed to take off were reduced, as was landing runway length. Declassified records show Avro management was caught unprepared by the suddenness of the announcement by the government. While executives were aware that the program was in jeopardy, they expected it to continue at least until the March review. It was widely believed that during this lead-up to the review, the first Arrow Mk 2, RL-206, would be prepared for an attempt at both world speed and altitude records. The cancellation immediately put over 50,000 people out of work at the plants and outside suppliers. Within two months, all aircraft, engines, production tooling and technical data were ordered scrapped. Officially, the reason given for the destruction order from Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff was to destroy classified and "secret" materials utilized in the Arrow/Iroquois programs. Along with the five flying test models and production aircraft, blueprints and other materials were destroyed leading to the creation of a piece of Canadian mythology. Tags: Avro Arrow CF-105 Assassination Killed vandalism conspiration US perv gov sexy babes hot Canadian Pride Mark Ontario Malton

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AVRO Lancaster on Gilze-Rijen 2005 This video shows the AVRO Lancaster during the KLU open days on airbase Gilze-Rijen on June 17-18th. 2005. The video and the edit are originally made by Carel Esser, member of the Fokker Four display team. Tags: Lancaster AVRO-Lancaster Fokker-Four Open-dagen-2005

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CF-105 Avro Arrow 1997 news spot on the Avro Arrow from CBC News (The National). The Avro CF-105 Arrow was a delta-wing interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) in Malton, Ontario, Canada, as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953. Tags: Airplane Avro Arrow CF-105 CBC News Canada Malton 1997

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Coro Polifonico di Ruda - Avro Part DE PROFUNDIS Concerto presso la Cattedrale di San Giusto a Trieste direttore Fabiana Noro realizzazione video Hektor Leka Tags: coro polifonico di ruda fabiana noro

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Avro Vulcan Roll http://www.vulcantothesky.com Avro Vulcan XH558 is a national heritage asset - she belongs to everyone in the UK. Please help to keep YOUR aeroplane flying for years to come! Tags: Avro Vulcan XH558 aeroplane airplane plane fly flying flight RAF aircraft bomber bomb pilot cold war jet land

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