On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:53:13PM +0100, mike wilson wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: > > Doug Franklin wrote: > > > >>Adam Maas wrote: > >> > >> > >>>If you want a great sounding bird, very little beats a Lancaster, with > >>>it's 4 Merlins. > >> > >>I've never been near a running Lanc, though I've seen them on static > >>display several times. I have had a B-17 and B-24 go overhead at around > >>1,000 feet. Heard them coming and going for _miles_. Nothing really > >>sounds like a four-piston-engined bird. > >> > > > > > > There's only 2 flying Lanc's, 1 in the UK and one here in Canada, based > > out of Hamilton, about an hour west of Toronto. A beautiful bird, but > > small by todays standards. > > Small but effective. I think it has three or four times the payload > capacity of the B17. No armour except for the cockpit........
The Lancaster could (when stripped down) carry as much as a 22,000lb bomb. That was about three times the payload of a B17. To put thing in perspective - modern strike fighters such as the F-16 or the Eurofighter have a payload of 14,000lb or so - something like 80% of the normal payload of an unmodified Lancaster, or twice what a B17 could carry. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
