then the Lancaster would be the clear victor over the Halifax (to draw an American heavy bomber analogy, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress would be the clear winner over the Consolidated B-24 ...

Another bomber that packed a bigger bomb load than the B-17 was the Avro Lancaster of Great Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF): it wielded the "Grand Slam" bomb, which in several engagements dropped ...

A World War Two veteran from North Devon who survived 17 missions in a Lancaster Bomber before being shot down has just celebrated his 99th birthday. Dick Raymond, from Brayford, was a flight ...

The Lancaster Bomber carried out daring missions ... Find out if you have what it took to be part of the crew. On 16 and 17 May 1943, a squadron, No. 617, of 19 modified Lancasters attacked ...

Up until the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force solely relied on its B-52 Stratofortress airframes as its primary strategic bombers. By the mid-1970s, however, engineers discovered a whole new method of ...

The cash to join the crew of seven others will be put towards the £380,000 cost of the trip in what is considered to be the most famous Allied bomber of the Second World War. The Avro Lancaster ...