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Which British bomber was one of the most effective heavy bombers of the war?
Avro Lancaster
Lancaster, also called Avro Lancaster, the most successful British heavy bomber of World War II. The Lancaster emerged from the response by A.V. Roe & Company, Ltd., to a 1936 Royal Air Force specification calling for a bomber powered by two 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce Vulture engines.
When was the Lancaster bomber used?
1942
The four-engined Avro Avro Lancaster heavy bomber was designed and built by AV Roe & Company for the RAF during the Second World War. Entering service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942, it soon became their main heavy bomber….Specifications (Avro Lancaster 1)
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Minimum Weight | 36,457 lb (16,571 kg) |
Did the Lancaster have a co pilot?
The cockpit of the Agro Lancaster – unlike US bombers there was no co-pilot, if the pilot was injured the flight engineer has basic pilot training and was expected to bring the plane and crew home.
Who designed the Avro Lancaster?
Roy Chadwick
Avro Lancaster/Designers
For the last three years of World War Two the Avro Lancaster was the major heavy bomber used by Bomber Command to take the war to the heart-land of Nazi Germany. It resulted from design work undertaken by Roy Chadwick and his Avro team to overcome the problems experienced with the twin-engined Manchester bomber.
What type of aircraft is the Lancaster bomber?
Avro Lancaster. 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 wartime era.
What was the purpose of the B-29 Superfortress?
Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing but also excelled in low-altitude night incendiary bombing. B-29s also dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which led to the end of World War II.
Why did the B-29 bomber have a stepless cockpit?
The need for pressurization in the cockpit area also led to the B-29 being one of very few American combat aircraft of World War II to have a stepless cockpit design, without a separate windscreen for the pilots. Manufacturing the B-29 was a complex task.
What is the difference between a B-17 and a Lancastrian bomber?
The B17 has two pilots and two sets of controls versus the Lancs one. The only armour on a Lanc was a small plate behind the pilots seat and even that was often removed to get an extra 100lbs of bombs in. The B17 could survive damage that would have any other bomber fall from the sky .