With a fleet of piston engine bombers such as the Avro Lancaster and the Avro Lincoln, combined with the ... 230, which called for a long-range bomber with a 2,000 nautical mile (2,300 mi; 3,700 ...

she was called for military service and went to work at Avro in Lincoln - the designer and maker of the great Lancaster Bomber. She remembers the damaged planes coming back to Lincoln where the ...