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Apparently one whole third of Britains wartime industrial activity was spent on Bomber command. Ewen McGregor and his brother recently made a decent documentary about his brother qualifying in one of the last two flying Lancs. They look so cramped inside it's no wonder nobody could get out of a damaged one. All heroes in my view.
I did enter a Lancaster about fifteen years ago. I think it was in Vulcan Alberta. The main obstruction to get into the cockpit from the back of the aircraft was the wing root. Had to literally crawl over it so little wonder that exiting was a challenge. Sitting in the cockpit the pilot's view over the wings was like looking over immense barn doors.
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