The Royal Air Force has the last flying Lancaster in it's Memorial Flight. It flies regularly at airshows and on Remembrance Day.
Because you don't really know so you guessed, and tbh if it took "about 2 months to build a Lancaster bomber" as you suggested the build time for the total number of Lancaster Bombers created would be in excess of 1200 years, which is frankly ludicrous. Even if four factories were making them it would still have taken 300 years to produce the number.. C'mon....kids do their homework from the internet so check your results better.
Used to be an enlisted man. The Vietnam War was the last war to have bomber tailgunners. Two B52 tailgunners shot down two NVAF MiG21s in December 1972; for the last time in history.
The first prototype which was a development of the Manchester, flew for the first time on 9th January 1941. The second prototype flew on 13th May 1941. The 3rd prototype was flown on 26th November that same year, and was equipped with Hercules radial engines. By that time, production versions (much like the 2nd proto) were coming off the line, powered by the more familiar Merlin engines. The first Lancaster operation was March3/4 1942, a night time mine laying trip. A total of 7366 were built and almost half were lost on operations. The last one to retire from RAF service was in 1954.
A B29 Superfortress was a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing flown primarily by the United States near the end of World War II and during the Korean War. It was one of the largest aircraft to see service in World War II and an advanced bomber for its time, with features such as a pressurized cabin, electronic fire-control system, and remote-controlled machine-gun turrets.
B52 Stratofortress. During the Vietnam War one B52 could carry up to 108 750lb bombs. That was equal to 10 WWII bombers. I believe the Avro Lancaster was the best bomber of all time. It was essential to winning WW2. Lancasters took thousands of boys to war and brought many men back. It made the difference between winning and losing. -If the Allies had lost there would never have been a real peace.
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The distance in Pennsylvania from Erie to Lancaster is 337 miles. That equals 542 kilometers and about 5.5 hours in driving time.
The distance in Pennsylvania from Lancaster to Harrisburg is 38 miles. That equals 61 kilometers and about 40 minutes in driving time.
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