Avro Manchester in RAF Service — the twenty-third volume of the Wingleader Photo Archive series on the twin-engine bomber out of which, after rebuilding, the Avro Lancaster came.
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This is a photographic publication for modelers and aviation historians, not a kit. The twenty-third volume of the numbered Photo Archive series of the British publisher Wingleader was written by Peter Allam.
The Avro Manchester is one of the most interesting failures of RAF Bomber Command. It was meant to be a modern twin-engine heavy bomber and its airframe was basically sound; the engines buried it. The twenty-four-cylinder Rolls-Royce Vultures overheated, broke and threw crews into dangerous situations, so the Manchester had only a short combat career in 1941 and 1942 and about two hundred were built. The story did not end there, however: when Avro replaced the two Vultures with four Merlins and lengthened the wing, the Lancaster came out of the same basis, the most successful British bomber of the war. In the meantime the Manchesters flew night raids over Germany and mining as well, and their crews became the core of the first Lancaster squadrons.
For modelers who build the Manchester or want to compare its airframe with the Lancaster, and for readers interested in the development of British bombers.
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