Flying the Avro Lancaster is the fourth programme from the Classic Cockpit series which accompanies Flying the De Havilland Vampire, DC-3 and PBY Catalina.
Derived from the twin-engine Avro Manchester, the Lancaster was designed for one purpose
to carry bombs. Its bomb bay was stressed to take more than twenty thousand pounds of high explosive. Powered by four Rolls Royce engines, it carried enough fuel to take it deep into the German heartland, destroying cities and wreaking havoc on Hitler's heavy industries.
The Lancaster is probably best known for the famous 'Dam Busters Raid' in May 1943, when aircraft of the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the M
