AVRO LANCASTER 1941 ONWARDS (ALL MARKS) (OWNERS' WORKSHOP MANUAL)
Written by Jarrod Cotter, Paul Blackah
Published by Haynes Publishing
in 2008
ISBN: 9781844254637
AVRO LANCASTER 1941 ONWARDS (ALL MARKS) (OWNERS' WORKSHOP MANUAL)
Written by Jarrod Cotter, Paul Blackah.
Stock no. 1829768
1st.
2008.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
An insight into owning, restoring, servicing and flying Britain's legendary World War II bomber. Blue pictorial boards. Colour photos. 160 pages. ISBN: 9781844254637. A lovely copy!
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- PA474's role in the BBMF
- Restoring PA474
- The Lancaster Story
- Lancaster: The Story of the Bomber
- Into Service
- Stalking the Tirpitz
- Final throes of war
- The main production variants
- Anatomy of the Lancaster
- Introduction
- Lancaster BI
- The Fuselage
- The tail unit
- The wings
- The undercarriage
- The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine
- Systems
- Flying controls
- Turrets
- Bomb bay and loads
- The Owner's View
- Purchasing an airworthy Lancaster is hardly likely!
- The Canadian viewpoint
- Insurance and running costs
- The Crew's View
- Pre-flight checks
- Introduction
- Start-up
- Take-off
- Display flying a Lancaster
- PA474 flight test schedule
- Emergency equipment and controls
- Navigating the Lancaster
- The flight engineer's duties
- The Engineers View
- Introduction
- Servicing a Lancaster
- Heroes without Wings
- From Mickey to the Phantom
- Appendices
- Index