Hi Bill,
In a message of  to Jim Dawson (), you wrote:
 BW> Greetings, Jim!
 BW>   On 13 May 98, Jim Dawson entered the following ASCII codes for the
 BW> express viewing pleasure of Bill Wunsch:
 JD> Bill: I was invited to tour the Lancaster on display at Nanton, 
lberta's
 JD> museum. It was extremely interesting for me to examine two different
 JD> approaches (Lancaster vs the B-17) to solving the same problem of 
ombing
 JD> the Reich. I was astonished to see that the Lanc used only one pilot!
 BW> That's news to me!  Do you mean that they didn't have dual controls?
No, the guy at the right is the air engineer...
 BW> They certainly had different approaches.  I think the Lancaster 
evolved"
 BW> - I don't think it was designed from the ground up as a four engine
 BW> bomber.
No, they made first the Manchester, a two engined bomber.
it was an underpowered failure, they then "added" two more merlins...
To see how they worked in the Lancs, go and pay a visit to the
Imperial War Museum in London: they have a cut-out of the forward
fuselage of one Lancs, and you can walk through...
and the gunners had just .303 brownings: you were able to fire at the 
fighters when you saw the white in their eyes!
 BW> The former British citizen and RAF member that I worked with in the 50s,
 BW> used to comment on the large crew and small bomb load of the B-17.
 BW> The Mosquito was a different approach again, and one variant carried a
 BW> full compliment of cannon and machine-guns, two 500-lb. bombs in the 
ear
 BW> half of the bomb bay (the front half contained the cannon breeches) and
 BW> two 500-lb bombs under the wings.  And only a two man crew...
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Bye, Hubert.
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