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bob10
17th May 2018, 07:03 PM
YouTube (https://youtu.be/MF5_hvE4WEA)
bob10
21st May 2018, 05:23 PM
Lancasters over Germany

YouTube (https://youtu.be/4iua49gCA6A)
cripesamighty
21st May 2018, 06:55 PM
In the same vein, was Edward R. Murrow's "Orchestrated Hell", when he took a ride over Berlin with a Lancaster crew.

Radio Days - Edward R. Murrow (http://www.otr.com/murrow.html)
Radio Days - Edward R. Murrow - Orchestrated Hell (http://www.otr.com/orch_hell.html)
http://www.otr.com/ra/news/murrow_43_12_3.mp3
bob10
23rd May 2018, 07:15 PM
A walk thru a Lancaster, not what I thought at all. How on Earth did they do it.

YouTube (https://youtu.be/f9Y546imIJM)
Bigbjorn
23rd May 2018, 08:45 PM
A walk thru a Lancaster, not what I thought at all. How on Earth did they do it.

YouTube (https://youtu.be/f9Y546imIJM)

Bob, I have had short flights in a B17, B24, B25. I sat on the floor in a B17 in the waist gun position from Santa Ana near LA to Reno. We got quite high over the Sierras and I was bloody freezing. How they crewed these for 12 hours to Berlin or Eastern Europe and return in a European winter is beyond my imagination. The air crew must have been skinny kids. I had great trouble squeezing between the bomb racks to get up to the cockpit from the waist guns. I could not fit down the hatch in the floor between the cockpit and the nose positions. The noise was horrendous.
JDNSW
24th May 2018, 05:42 AM
Most of the men who flew in these aircraft were smaller than most of us today. Remember that by and large these were young men - 18-20 - who would have grown up during the great depression, when a large proportion of people in industrialised countries actually went hungry for significant periods of time. And only a few of them would have benefited as small children from the advances made in knowledge about nutrition for growing bodies that developed in the 1920-30s.

The same effect can be seen when people today complain about the ergonomics of the Defender - remember the basic dimensions of the interior were set when the first Landrover was designed in 1947 - and the men who designed it did so to fit their own size.