Author Topic: Lancaster Loadout Options (Read 527 times)

Furball · « **on:** February 03, 2005, 02:42:03 PM »

Found this...

http://www.lancaster-archive.com/Lanc-bombs-Loads.htm

Awesome.

oh... and why the americans called it the "flying bomb bay!!" when they first saw it!

Bomb Bay Dimensions = 5'-0" wide x 33'-0" lg.(1.52 m x 10.0 m)

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2005, 03:38:33 PM »

the name crack me up

Bomber Command Executive Codeword: "ABNORMAL"
Bomber Command Executive Codeword: "GARDENING"

Funny guys

Furball · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2005, 06:30:19 PM »

Bomber Command Executive Codeword: "COOKIE/PLUMDUFF"

Would love this loadout in AH =

Bomber Command Executive Codeword: "PLUMDUFF-PLUS"

Target Type: Heavy Industrial Area

1 x 8,000 lb Mk. I or III, HC bomb containing 5,361 lb of Amatex with barometric or impact fusing, and up to 6 x 500 lb MC or GP bombs with instantaneous or long-delay fusing.

Note: the 8,000 lb bomb was actually 2x 4,000 lb cookies joined together.

HoHun · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2005, 02:08:08 PM »

Hi,

>... bombs with instantaneous or long-delay fusing.

>Note: the 8,000 lb bomb was actually 2x 4,000 lb cookies joined together.

Long delay? :-) They found an unexploded "Cookie" in Hamburg harbour some 55 years after the drop!

While it's a routine affair to dig up a few WW2 bombs in any major construction effort in Hamburg, the Cookie was a bit out of the ordinary, requiring evacuation of large areas of the city for defusing, including parts of Wilhelmsburg and St. Pauli. Even some ships were towed out of the harbour.

The explosives expert was rather cool about it, though - "With bombs, if something goes wrong, I'm dead anyway ... size doesn't matter!"

(He survived :-)

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)