Issue 1 - Avro Lancaster: Contents
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Enemy Coast Ahead... 20 Wg Cdr Guy Gibson... Flying the ‘Lanc’... PA474’s return to flight... Close call for the ‘Phantom’... Reap the Whirlwind... Bomber Command Memorial... Inside the ‘Lanc’... Mynarski Memorial ‘Lanc’... ABC and an eighth man... Bomb loads... Wings For Victory... The crew... A Kiwi with the Dam Busters...
6 Introduction
8 Enemy Coast Ahead
20 Wg Cdr Guy Gibson
26 Flying the ‘Lanc’
36 PA474’s return to flight
40 Wartime colour
42 ‘Lancs’ on film
50 Close call for the ‘Phantom’
56 Reap the Whirlwind
62 Bomber Command Memorial
64 “Are we on for Tonight?”
74 Inside the ‘Lanc’
82 Mynarski Memorial ‘Lanc’
86 Bomber base
94 Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
98 ABC and an eighth man
104 ‘Still Going Strong’
108 Bomb loads
110 S-Sugar
114 RAF Scampton – the Lancaster years
116 Wings For Victory
118 The crew
124 A Kiwi with the Dam Busters
Lincolnshire’s Lancaster Association is a registered charity supporting the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. It was formed from the Lincolnshire Lancaster Committee; a small group of people who came together when the Lancaster was moved from RAF Waddington to RAF Coltishall in 1973. The committee’s original aims were to ensure that PA474 would return to Lincolnshire and that the Lancaster would remain in the county as a memorial to the thousands of aircrew who lost their lives during World War Two.
Following a request from the RAF to help produce the hardware that made the fitting of the mid-upper turret to the Lancaster possible, it was decided to change the name of the committee and invite public membership. LLA currently has almost 6500 members worldwide and continues to give invaluable support to the Flight. Many projects have been funded over the years by LLA, and this support can only be financed only by the generosity of members, by bequests, donations and money raised from the sale of souvenirs. A donation from the sale of each copy of this issue of Aviation Classics will be donated to LLA.
Lincolnshire’s Lancaster Association
PO Box 474
Lincoln
LN5 8ZW
www.lancaster-association.co.uk
www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf
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