Lancaster dropping a cookie 1000lb bomb

The Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber. 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 era.
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How to fly

Activate 1- Open main door

Activate 2- Strobe lights

Activate 3- Formation lights

Activate 4- flight stabilizer

Activate 5- OPEN BOMB BAY/ ACTIVATE BOMBS/ ACTIVE BOMB LIGHTS

The Lancaster could carry a massive variety of bombs thanks to it's large bomb bay, which is why it was later modified to carry the "tall boy" bombs and even the rolling bombs for the dam buster missions.

There were 2 bomb lights on one of the wings, designed to show 2 circles of light on the ground, once they overlapped these let the bomb aimer know the altitude of the aircraft and where the bombs would go

Activate 6- N/A

Activate 7- Emergency Exits

The Lancaster had 4 escape hatches built in

Activate 8- All turrets/ main power

The original Lancasters had a Ventral turret operated by a periscope, this was removed later on because it was deemed ineffective and heavy. The space was later used for new radar systems

Virtual Tour

The bomb aimers position, with the FN-5A turret above, which the bomb aimer would also operate. Below is one of four escape hatches

The pilots position

The radio operator and navigators positions

The mid section, on the top you can see the FN-50 Dorsal turret, commonly referred to by the crews as "Ted church". Underneath you can see the periscope and controls of the FN-64 Ventral turret, which was replaced in later models of the bomber by early radar systems.

The toilet area, behind which is the FN-120 tail gun, known by crews as "tail end charlie". This position was the loneliest on the plane and crew often suffered freezing temperatures that led to frostbite.

Fun pics

Bombing run on Yeager airport

Flying home after a successful mission

Tail end charlie shooting down an enemy aircraft

Damaged enemy fighter

A battle damaged Lancaster with the tail sheared off

References

-The real Lancaster KM-C (R5903) and KM-B (R5508) which flew for 44 Rhodesia squadron during world war 2

-Credit to "UK AIRCRAFT EXPLORED"