The Lancaster had massive bomb capacity, 22,000 lbs, able to carry the largest conventional bomb of WW2 - The Grand Slam.

 

The 'Dam Busters' was an interesting read. also!
Came out of skipping a flat stone across the water!

 

One episode I remember was when the Germans dropped a potential spy into the UK countryside. The guy walked until he came to a village and saw a local pub.
He entered and asked the landlord for a beer.
The landlord went in the kitchen and phoned the local police , He knew how strange and suspicious it was that any Englishman did not know that all pubs close between 3pm & 6-30pm .
It was just after 4:30 !!

 

The 'Dam Busters' was an interesting read. also!
Came out of skipping a flat stone across the water!

It was a decent film too, a bit dated now of course but an enjoyable tense film.

 

The Lancaster had massive bomb capacity, 22,000 lbs, able to carry the largest conventional bomb of WW2 - The Grand Slam.

Though the B-29 wasn't far behind at 20,000 lb. In fact, at least one B-29s was modified to carry TWO 22,000 lb Grand Slam bombs externally (actually the American manufactured M110 equivalent) and one was even modified to carry the 44,000 lb T-12 Cloudmaker bomb -- and it carried it internally! But these were tests done during the development of the B-36.



The B-29 had a significant advantage in terms of achievable capacity, given that it was significantly larger and had nearly twice the maximum gross takeoff weight.

Avro Lancaster and B-29 Superfortress FIFI @ Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum August 28, 2018

I still love watching a big radial fire off -- though it's so much better standing next to them! I was running flightline edge crowd control at an airshow when a P-47 demo team was getting ready to start up and they asked me to help them. I got the somewhat dubious pleasure of holding a big metal bucket up against the exhaust pipe while they started it to keep the rather large quantity of oil from spraying down the side of the plane (they wanted to make the paint finish last as long as possible). You don't get a lot closer than that! It was.... cool!

I've been onboard FiFi a couple of times and even got to spend about fifteen minutes chatting with Paul Tibbets, Jr at one of those.

But the B-36, which was all-but-ready by war's end, dwarfed both in every way with an 86,000 lb payload capacity (noticeably more than either the B-52 or the B-1). It wasn't eclipsed until the late 1980s, and then just by a bit, by the Tu-160 Blackjack.

 

 

Six turning, four burning;
Some of the amazing shots of the plane!

 

Six turning, four burning;
Some of the amazing shots of the plane!

Ah... back when movie makers actually filmed real things doing real things.

It was definitely something else. When I was in tech school at Chanute in 1985, we marched past one of them that was on static display four times a day.

This is the exact aircraft and is the only H-model still in existence. The other three B-36s are all J-models:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Air_Museum#/media/File:Convair_RB-36H_PeacemakerCAM.jpg

 

I remember the fighter-bomber, the Mosquito, faster than the Spitfire. I heard the pilots hated it, as if you had to bail out, the props were right there!!

 

Though the B-29 wasn't far behind at 20,000 lb. In fact, at least one B-29s was modified to carry TWO 22,000 lb Grand Slam bombs externally (actually the American manufactured M110 equivalent) and one was even modified to carry the 44,000 lb T-12 Cloudmaker bomb -- and it carried it internally! But these were tests done during the development of the B-36.

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The B-29 had a significant advantage in terms of achievable capacity, given that it was significantly larger and had nearly twice the maximum gross takeoff weight.

Avro Lancaster and B-29 Superfortress FIFI @ Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum August 28, 2018

I still love watching a big radial fire off -- though it's so much better standing next to them! I was running flightline edge crowd control at an airshow when a P-47 demo team was getting ready to start up and they asked me to help them. I got the somewhat dubious pleasure of holding a big metal bucket up against the exhaust pipe while they started it to keep the rather large quantity of oil from spraying down the side of the plane (they wanted to make the paint finish last as long as possible). You don't get a lot closer than that! It was.... cool!

I've been onboard FiFi a couple of times and even got to spend about fifteen minutes chatting with Paul Tibbets, Jr at one of those.

But the B-36, which was all-but-ready by war's end, dwarfed both in every way with an 86,000 lb payload capacity (noticeably more than either the B-52 or the B-1). It wasn't eclipsed until the late 1980s, and then just by a bit, by the Tu-160 Blackjack.

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Man, that's a big plane!

 

One of my favorite TZ episodes:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wj2QhoOoDy0

 

I live close to here, I think I need to pay it a visit. I'm regularly treated to amazing WW2 planes flying over my house, sometimes even biplanes.

 

Likewise. This is in my hometown. I am fortunate to be able to see these vintage aircraft actually flying over my house.

 

Mosquito, Lancaster and two Spitfires

 

Mosquito, Lancaster and two Spitfires

Top shelf man, top shelf.

Did you ever watch this old film? a bio of Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire who sadly died about 18 mths before WW2 broke out and never lived to see the fruits of his work.

 

There are also many woodenhead old people in power in my country who are wasting resources/time upon their deadwood WW memories ,lies and tricks.
but,it is social media era...and we are "Generation Z".

 

...and we are "Generation Z".

You're not as special as your mother told you you are.

 

You're not as special as your mother told you you are.

It dosen't matter at all...fighting with us means fighting with history.
at least my mother has learned me not to waste time and resources with old deadwood lies.

 

It dosen't matter at all...fighting with us means fighting with history.

Like most platitudes, this is absolutely devoid of meaning.

at least my mother has learned me not to waste time and resources with old deadwood lies.

She also apparently learned you not to waste time learning grammar. But, she made up for it by learning you to waste time and resources joining forums just to post meaningless platitudes.

 

Let’s don’t feed the troll. Report them instead.