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01-30-2005, 11:08 AM
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Country:  | No it's the Botha, it was so bad it didn't even get to an operational squadron
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01-30-2005, 11:27 AM
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#77 | | Master of Ewes
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01-30-2005, 11:28 AM
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01-30-2005, 11:45 AM
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01-30-2005, 11:46 AM
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01-30-2005, 12:00 PM
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#81 | | Master of Ewes
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01-30-2005, 12:01 PM
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01-30-2005, 12:03 PM
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#83 | | Master of Ewes
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02-07-2005, 06:14 AM
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| How about the Avro 679 Manchester? 25% of those 202 build planes was destroyed in crashes. And it was manly because of the unreliability 1760 hp Vulture-engines. | 
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02-07-2005, 06:19 AM
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Country: | It was only problems with the engines, Manchester+4 Merlins=Lancaster
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02-07-2005, 10:21 AM
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Country: | Actually no, the Lancaster was going to have 4 Vultures instead of 4 Merlins, but when they saw their unreliability on the Manchester they were switched.
(See lanc, I DO use your information  )
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02-07-2005, 10:41 AM
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02-07-2005, 10:47 AM
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Country: | Pretty much. Early Manchesters had 3 tail fins...
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02-07-2005, 12:08 PM
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Country: | it was actually changed to two larger fins on the Mk.IA manchaster because of the crap engines, if one cut out the larger tails almost directly behined the engines would offer far better directional stability...........
and the manchaster was a good plane but for those engines, damn them.............
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02-07-2005, 02:11 PM
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Country: | Yeah, good range and payload for a twin engine.
Who knows, the range may have been even further than we know if the engines could have lasted long enough to complete a whole sortie
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