#bomber command

[usafphantom8]

Avro Landcaster MK.III

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[jojadoja1]

[usafphantom2]

Avro Vulcan and Lancasters by AviationPrints

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[thesixthduke]

[punkybloom]

Rose can't fly the way I can, which has always driven her crazy, but she's a genius with machines. Give her a few minutes to poke around inside something broken, and she'll figure out why it isn't working and how to fix it. Fossil saw what my little sister could do and trained her as a flight engineer... something the Resistance needs even more than pilots. But I know the Resistance needs her skills for more than fixing stuck communications arrays and arguing with stubborn droids. The problem is making Rose realize what she's capable of. My little sister thinks I'm a hero while she's some nobody with a hydrospanner.

What if she figures out a way to let our fleet move across the galaxy undetected? Or invents the machine that lets the Resistance defeat the First Order? Or does something even more amazing that I can't imagine? I've been thinking about how to get Rose to see that her destiny lies on a different path. But that leaves me with two worries. The first is that she won't be able to accept that. And the second is that I won't.

➡ The Last Jedi - Bomber Command - Paige Tico’s Journal

Written by:  Jason Fry

Illustrated by:  Cyril Nouvel 

[uraniumeater235]

Fun fact, during ww2 the head of RAF Bomber command was Arthur 'bomber' Harris. His other nickname was 'Butch' Harris due to the fact he was a butch lesbian pretty tough fellow. In England at the time this was a very common nickname and nothing out of the ordinary. After the war, a writer heard this nickname and assumed butch was short for butcher. This created the myth that Harris was nicknamed the butcher because he was willing to get as many of his own crews killed as required to defeat Germany, this is objectively wrong. Arthur Harris was a very stubborn bastard and one of the things he was incredibly stubborn about was not wasting crews lives and bomber crews understood this and viewed Harris as the only person in high command sticking up for them. This myth is so pervasive in spite of the fact that all evidence at the time is contrary to this claim. All because someone didn't know what being butch was.

[redarmyscreaming]

The Avro Type 679 Manchester was designed by A V Roe & Company (Avro) Chief Designer Roy Chadwick to Specification P.13/36 which called for a twin-engined medium bomber. Avro selected the 1,760 hp 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce Vulture I engine to power the Manchester. Manchester production was curtailed due mainly to the type's poor reliability on operations, but the promise of a much superior performance from a four-engined, Rolls-Royce Merlin-powered, Avro 698 Lancaster also played a large part in the decision.

[davidcashuk]

Avro Lancaster - last few of a legend