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12-15-2006, 05:33 PM
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12-15-2006, 06:38 PM
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12-17-2006, 06:23 AM
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Country: | how annoying it wont load anything but a tiny section of the pictures, ah well, back to my stills it is 
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12-17-2006, 10:03 AM
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12-17-2006, 11:27 AM
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12-17-2006, 01:31 PM
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12-18-2006, 01:17 PM
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12-18-2006, 02:21 PM
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12-18-2006, 02:27 PM
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12-18-2006, 02:35 PM
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Country: | yes there is good all around visibility in a lanc, and the single pilot controls (although easily adapted to take a second set of controls) were one of the drawbacks picked up on by those fighting for the B-24 and B-17s in our now infamous lanc vs. american bombers debates.............
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass  how do you mean? | If you note on a nighttime lancaster there's a cowling over the instrument panel so as to minimise the light from the small instrument lamps leaking out of the cockpit...
On a daytime lancaster that cowling simply isn't there..
So you can see one is fitted out for as a daytime bomber the other is a nighttime bomber.
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12-19-2006, 05:45 AM
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12-19-2006, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bomber If you note on a nighttime lancaster there's a cowling over the instrument panel so as to minimise the light from the small instrument lamps leaking out of the cockpit...
On a daytime lancaster that cowling simply isn't there..
So you can see one is fitted out for as a daytime bomber the other is a nighttime bomber.
Simon | ah, well i couldn't load one of them so there's my problem 
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