Adam Maas wrote: > Doug Franklin wrote: > >>Adam Maas wrote: >> >> >>>If you want a great sounding bird, very little beats a Lancaster, with >>>it's 4 Merlins. >> >>I've never been near a running Lanc, though I've seen them on static >>display several times. I have had a B-17 and B-24 go overhead at around >>1,000 feet. Heard them coming and going for _miles_. Nothing really >>sounds like a four-piston-engined bird. >> > > > There's only 2 flying Lanc's, 1 in the UK and one here in Canada, based > out of Hamilton, about an hour west of Toronto. A beautiful bird, but > small by todays standards.
Small but effective. I think it has three or four times the payload capacity of the B17. No armour except for the cockpit........ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
