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  • Naration sucked !

  • 2 people must be German

  • this thing carried a 20000 pound bomb into germany

  • there will be  3 the one in windsor ontario it is over going restorations

  • 3:08

    Looks like a Martin B-26 Marauder.

  • Just watched the Myarski Lanc fly over my house here in Calgary about an hour ago - wasn't expecting it - was only about 200 ft. overhead - the ground shook! How cool!!

  • In WWII a lancaster plane was taken down in the Netherlands, and it crashed in sea. I live exactly above the crashsite because what was sea in ww2, is now land. (Flevoland) Look it up on google

  • lovely voice, beautifull even

  • Brilliant video and narration... thank you!

  • it was either that or he got shot down over france ?? idk but i miss him even though i never met him :(

  • My Great uncle was the first Black person to be a navigator .. he was in the Avro Lancaster and im gonna join the 364 Lancaster Squadron of air cadets soon .. its to bad i never met him .. he died after the war

  • My great uncle flew one of these planes. He was due to become a flight instructor after his 50th sortie, but he got shot down on the last mission. How unlucky is that....

  • @Ichantyr Do you know exactly where his plane went down?

  • Not so sturdy as the B-17? Lancasters were built like a brick shithouse. In terms of the damage that they could sustain they were equal to anything. No other bomber had the range plus bomb load of a Lancaster. No other bomber could carry the range of bombs that a Lancaster with it's 33' bomb bay could which, after later modifications to bulge it, had even greater capacity. It's design was brilliant and was how it was developed into the Lincoln then Shackleton as well as the huge bomb carriers

  • Absolutely bang on skipper! The Lanc was as hard as nails & took take a huge amount of stick. Some ac limped home having sustained tremendous battle damage. Bloody marvellous aeroplane-greatest heavy of WW2. The B-17 was similar to a heavyweight boxer who throws a middle weight punch! No comparision to the Lanc. No disrepect to the brave USAAF bomber crews who flew in WW2 intended though :)

  • My grandfather was aboard one of those 3000 lancasters lost during the war. Most of his crew members perished, but he made it out at the last second. He was a flight communications (and navagation too i believe)

  • Graceful aeroplane

  • I like a lot more than B-17, I don know why it was confined to night bombing duties, was it no so sturdy as american bombers, I remember that lancaster bombload was greater than american bomber.Greetings

  • The B17's flew daylight missions due to the fact that they flew in vics of 3 or 6 aircraft using their multiple air gunners for self protection. This system would have been almost impossible at night.

    RAF bombers flew in waves on night bombing attacks at different altitudes, each aircraft having to look after themselves. The greatest danger apart from flack and night fighters was friendly bombs dropped from above as some wartime pictures of returning Lancs minus whole rear turrets showed.

  • #Hi Mig, the Lanc had very poor armour and Guns compared to a B-17. Thats why they could carry more bombs.

  • It had a much heavier bombload, but it was made of wood a lit up like a torch. It was confined to night bombing because the British didn't target 1 building or 1 area, they targeted cities, and for a large target like that, it's safer to go at night where there will be less fighters (more day fighters than night fighters) which means a greater chance of going home.

  • triggerhappy14...you are thinking of the mosquito...the Lancaster wasn't made of wood

  • You are absolutely wrong........ the Lancaster is of all metal construction....I've read 100s of book about Lancs have looked all over them and have sat in the pilots seat of one...and i assure you they are all metal.

  • You are talking through your hairy hoop. The Lancaster was of ALL metal construction. Go & research it.

  • A few other facts:

    1 The Lancaster didn't light up like a torch when hit

    2 Nobody even claimed the mosquito had stealth qualities.........it had a wooden frame but it's paneling was still all metal.

    3 British area bombing proved to be just as accurate as so called precision day bombing by the USAAF. A fact admitted to after the war by the US

    4 Despite flying at night RAF bomber command still had 55,000 killed out of 120,00 who served ie it was the 2nd most dangerous place to be in the war

  • To avoid the tail gun the German night fighters would fly up under the Lancs, set up a climb slightly to get an angle to hit between the fuselage and the #2 engine, and fire away. The Lancaster rear gunner could not depress his guns enough to engage the enemy fighter directly below. Lancs used up fuel in the outboard tanks first, thus, the center tanks always had fuel in them. This burning ability is also true for American B-24 Liberators.

    Yes, using the tactics used, they lit up.

  • All aircraft carry fuel in their wings. Yes night fighters did attack from below using "Schrage Musik" obliquely firing cannon. Any aircraft at night would be vulnerable to such an attack....even ones with a belly gunner...because at night gunners rarely used their guns as it would give the position of the bomber away to other night fighters. Some gunners did a whole tour 30 ops without firing their guns.

    Will you at least admit you were wrong about Lanc being wooden

  • @Aussiephil99 The mosquito wasn't metal. The skin was Birch and Spruce plywood and was reported to be difficult to pick up on the Wurtzburg and Freya radars.

  • Not true: All metal apart from I think the ailerons which were linen over a metal frame, but that's not unusual for 'metal' planes of that era, on either side. Even the bf109 I believe had that.

  • Beautiful Aircraft! Absolutly stunning! The one they are rebuilding at the Windsor airport is well under way. Sooo much work to do but its gunna be airworthy, i was there today and the team is working hard at it!!

  • The book 'Demons in the Dark' is all about the Lancaster and Halifax bombing raids on Berlin during the war, it's really good.

  • best bomber of ww2, fastest and could cary almost twice the load of a b-17

  • @spitfiremkv11 BUT this was due to the large bomb bay, costing the Lancaster the vital protection of a belly turret. Still an awesome plane!

  • @Tabby266 Actually the Lancaster MKX did have a belly turret and the bulged bomb bay. The real advantage over US bombers was the huge bomb capacity (14,000lb over the same distance the B-17 could carry 4-5000lb) and the fact that the Lancaster as for the Halifax only required 1 pilot. All US bombers carried 2. The UK bombers used the Flight Engineer to perform all co-pilot duties.

  • Awesome aircraft. I live just 2 miles from where the bouncing bombs were tested at the derwent valley dams.

  • I live near reculver in kent, another one of its famous test sites. when the tide is out you can still see tiny bits of the metal casing being washed up all the time.

    I'm tempted to flag the video for sexual content, this is pure pornography.

  • lmao i agree

  • I love lancasters. Todays planes are horrible, not elegant like the planes of yester-year like this and the spitfire.

  • go lancs

  • Great bird!!

  • Nice video!

  • Very interesting and shocking but highly believeable.

  • Of course the ZIONISTS did it! That all-powerful cabal financed both the Allied and Axis powers, created the holocaust hoax, tricked the German people into thinking Hitler was a saviour, staged a Hollyweird war, and were rewarded with the vast and fabulously wealthy land of Israel, where they could live in peace and luxury forever. Zionists did it, Zionists did it all...ahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!­!

  • Like the B24 Liberator, this was an excellent bomber, overshadowed in history by the B17, I think because the Fortress got more media coverage, and possibly due to the clumsy-looking twin rudders, which were reminiscent of older WWI designs. The engine nacelles on the Avro were absolutely beautiful, though. Thanks for the post.

  • Beautiful! Thanks.

  • Nice coverage and historical facts about such a great WW2 aeroplane bomber.

  • My dear friend,

    I am a really thankful and greatful person to the post-war behaviour of the US and the UK. The showed humanity to a nation which allowed the Nazi-regime to be established... I have a meaning on this as well...I mean why the Nazi-regime was possible in Germany to that time..war guilt for WW1 (which Germany did not start) and the foolish train wagon in a hidden forest to sign an cease fire agreement and the world economy crisis..all this and more made the Nazis possible in Germany

  • dont get me wrong..I dont blame any allied or other nation but Germany for the third Reich. But its evident that politics in the west and east knew pretty much what was due to come with idiot Hitler...Germans were useful fools...but that conspiracy-theory of Yours is a little bit over the top...in my eyes...

    Anyhow I respect Your opinion and underline my statement, that I am free to discuss such matters in an unlimited internet and forum..for me thats just possible for germans cause of the US

  • My Gran worked on arming these. She always loved them, and the men who flew them. She lost her boyfriend in the first thousand bomber raid

  • The Manchester was quite unreliable compared to these, but the Lanc was absolutely brilliant in technology, add this to the special tricks for bombing, and in the words of Guy Gibson, the best place a German spotter when a marker bomb landed in the right place was underground.

  • This is a awesome canadian aircraft ,more powerfull than B-17 and B-24, like the Huricain build by Elsie MacGill ( first female engineer in the worlds, she build the hawker hurricaine for RAF and RCAF ).

    Canada kick ass

  • hi, my dad was in that flight on the 6th of august 2006 windsor Ontario, we drove from cambridge and came from England just so he could do that flight! Ivan Webb,

    any one who was there or flew with him, reply to me, hed love for any one to get in touch!!

  • saw 213 in 1990 at an airshow in upstate NY using grass runway alongside cornfields. Awesome sight with those merlins roaring and water swirls coming off props taking off. My favorite bomber of WWII and sad to know more than half were lost in action.

  • the real cookie monster !!!

    only bomber during the war that carried its own weight in bombs !!

  • Nowhere near true. Empty weight about 37,000 lb. Biggest bombload ever carried was 22,000 lb.

  • hey i've just got my big book of aircraft facts out!!!

    yep!!!

    empty weight !! 36800 lb

    fuel weight (full) + 27000 lb

    bomb weight (heaviest) +22,000 lb

    Total lift weight at take off + 49,000 lb+/-

    overall weight 85,800 lb +/-

    pay load on take off 12,200 lb +/- heavier than aircraft!! but no not all bombs...

    beat that Herman !!

  • This must surely be the best plane produced during the war years, as it had no equal.

    22000 lb bomb load? enough said.

  • My late Uncle George was a pilot and unfortunately shot down in one of those over Berlin late '45,he was later interred (1955) and burried in a French War Grave near Paris. I plan to visit his grave this April with his brother. Those boy's were very special, so was that Bomber! RIP

  • I am sorry about Your Uncle...late 1945...lots of senseless bombing runs took place during these days...too bad brave people died during these late days...As a german I really feel honoured by the british and the americans...they fought to free the germans...I am sorry about the causalties...but the politics of America and the british werethe best politics for Germany since many decades....finally the decisions where made without hate and propaganda

  • Good question - Choloy War Cemetery is for specifically for Pilots who were shot down and then interred after the war. No idea why it should be in France and not Germany or England. Sorry for your loss too! it was a dreadful situation for all involved - especially the innocents from Germany later in the war. Your fathers Uncle must have been a very brave man. Respect!

  • How would the 8th air force bomb at night?

  • destroyed germany-american bombers more concerned with self-defence than bombloads!

  • American bombers also flew during the day and actually made an attempt at hitting specific targets not simply aiming for the fires started by the lead Lancaster's incendiary explosives.

  • They actually aimed for pathfinder flares set by selected pathfinder squadrons. How exactlly would the 8th airforce go about it?

  • Aiming at buildings with the norton bomb site. Buildings having been photographed by aerial photographs. When Dresden was fire bombed Lancasters aimed at the fires caused by the initial aircraft's incendiarie explosive.

  • the merlin destroyed hitlers germany-full stop!

  • this bomber is fitted with the packard merlin engines...where many fitted with the rolls-royce??? and did the opposite rotation counter clockwise as opposed to clockwise of the cranckshaft direction hinder or hamper take-offs, and which where easier to take-off and land with

  • I thought merlin engines were rolls-royce.

  • They are, it is The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, used also by the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito and Mustang

  • they are!

  • Bomber Lancaster was a sucess from day one.

  • I have some aircraft vids and vids about Weapons of WW II, including some heavy bombers...

    It would be great if you go there to see... Thank you!

  • Sure was! One of my favorite WWII birds.

  • Yes...an outstanding aircraft. I am a big fan of the mossie as well!

  • Does anyone know where i can download a Avro Lancaster good quality video. I neeed it for a World War 2 film im doing. Plz Help! :)

  • if you watch this fly and the hairs dont stand up on the back of your neck then you aint an englishman

  • well said mate!

  • @papayankee69 Well said my son.

  • i wonder if they will ever get the two left flying together?

  • wouldn't that be fantastic? Moreso, are there any that are unworthy that are being restored???

  • Interesting film, but I'm completely at a loss as to why there's a picture of Douglas Bader in there - he was a fighter pilot. Like the last post I'm also a bit puzzled as to how the B17 was better, given it carried a much smaller payload.

  • The "picture" of Douglas Bader was actully Sq Leader

    Guy Gibson VC of the Dam Buster fame. One of the RAF's favourite sons sadly lost in action later in the war.

  • The B17 was another fine aircraft, but designed to fly higher and with a lot more of the payload tied up with armour and defensive armament.

    The Lancaster generally flew lower, and carried more bomb load.... 22,000 lb is a collosal load. The B17 cound not hope to carry it, nor was it designed to.... it was built really for precision targets, in daylight, with less load.

    Good video that one.

  • The Lanc was an upgrade of the Manchester, which didn't live up to expectations with it's 2 vulture engines. I hate the 'mines better than yours' mentality - both great aircraft. Didn't the B17 originally come from an airline heritage?

  • Exellent video. Nice combination of live action and stills with intelligent narrative. And the voice sounds fine. Well done!

  • can you tell me why the B 17 was better?

  • B-17 is a better plane for lots of reasons but any way the lancaster is also good

  • hate the voice it sounds like an answering machine.

  • Her narration is factually very accurate - unlike much of what is sometimes heard on TV these days.

  • Beauty eh!

  • great plane, but the commentary sounds like an answering machine.

  • One of the most successful bombers of WWII and surprisingly maneuverable.

  • Excellent film. Well made, interesting and educational. Also good narrating.

  • dont forget the halifax bomber

  • tin-can with motors. any decent fighter of that era would shred this flying coffin in secs. Nice sound though

  • I've seen thease airballa dancers and they really are the best, oh and the Spitfire as well!

  • Wow, always been my fave plane, was nuts about Lancaster`s as a kid :D

  • Nice job editing and narrating

  • GREAT Film!!

  • thanks.

  • The Lancaster is THE most awesome sounding aircraft EVER. 4 Merlin Rolls Royce engines throbbing away-music to the ears!

  • I cant imagine what a formation of a few hundred must of sounded like.

  • Wonderful sounding aircraft.

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