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05-09-2004, 07:36 PM
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05-10-2004, 12:01 AM
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| But Lancaster's right. It's not so much that the Manchester was a bad plane as it is that it had bad engines.
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05-10-2004, 09:01 AM
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Country:  | On that basis the Breda was one of the most successful planes of WW2!
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05-10-2004, 11:01 AM
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05-10-2004, 11:35 AM
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Country: |  The Manchester wasn't good, but it definately wasn't the worst aircraft.
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05-10-2004, 12:46 PM
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| the manchester was horrid
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05-10-2004, 12:48 PM
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| the lanc was cool but the manchester stunc
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05-10-2004, 12:53 PM
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05-10-2004, 01:16 PM
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| manchester horrid hmmmm im upset now *cry cry cry*
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05-10-2004, 01:17 PM
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| The Manchester was considerably better than many of the bombers currently employed by bomber command and can hardly be considered the worst aircraft of the war. The Vulture engines were the weak point of the design. The Manchester's airframe was relatively unchanged in the switch to the Lancaster. | |
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05-10-2004, 04:09 PM
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Country: | the engines were the only drwbach, it had good range and good payload, like lighning said, it was jsut the engines....................
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05-10-2004, 04:59 PM
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Country: | Well the engines are a big part of a design, normally you design the aircraft around the engines. Countless aircraft have been designed that way, unfortunate for the Manchester it wasn't designed that way.
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05-10-2004, 11:45 PM
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| But the Lancaster was essentially a Manchester with four Merlins rather than two Vultures (plus other changes demanded by the engine change). Thus the basic design of the Manchester must be considered very good.
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05-11-2004, 06:45 AM
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Country: | the fusilage was bearly modified atal in the change, just to prove that, a few manchesters were stopped half way through production, and were continued as lancasters...........
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05-11-2004, 10:02 AM
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Country: | Nope, I'm sorry Lanc the Manchester stunk, the Halifax, however, Ruled!
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