OT: What Is This? 2016

[dazoline II]

Yep, Air and Space Museum in Ottawa.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: dazoline II

Not sure about the Barracuda being flown by Canada but they did have a Swordfish.
FYI those "depth charges" are 500 pounders.

Never saw bombs with a flat front end before, so I thought they must be d/c's.
On the ID of the plane, the Lancaster was my first thought from the long bomb bay but then I thought I saw a folded wing on the left of the picture and d/c's in the bay so I thought the bomb bay length was distorted by fisheye lens or something. Don't know enough about Lancs to ID individual marks, but I did have the pleasure of visiting one of the only two flying Lancasters when it passed through Edmonton years ago. I was surprised by how small it was compared to a C-130.
Amazing to think it -specially modified versions - could lift a 22,000 lb Grand Slam bomb!
The Lanc was also the British equivalent of the B-17 for ruggedness.

[dazoline II]

Never saw bombs with a flat front end before, so I thought they must be d/c's.

Its the lighting in the pic. The bombs have a tapered nose but it's obscured by the shadows. The exact same bomb is piled in a stack facing toward the nose of the plane in the second Lanc. pic. Next to that woman's right elbow.

The Tall Boy / Grand Slam is exactly what I thought about when I saw the length of the bomb bay.

[bomccarthy]

ORIGINAL: dazoline II

As a new year's day treat here's a shot I took from a Christmas visit to a museum in Canada. I was fascinated by the bomb bay depicted here as I had previously only seen bomb bays showing crew compartments open to the bomb bay.
As a reward I'll post a more recognizable shot of this "young lady" after its correctly guessed. Built in Canada this gal didn't fly in the war but many of her sisters did in the Indian theatre.

I'm not that familiar with RAF ops in the Far East - Lancasters flew in India?

[JeffroK]

No Lancs in India, that threw me for a bit. I'm not sure if the RAF TIGER FORCE got as far as India??

Memory has it that the Chinese got some [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

No Lancs in India, that threw me for a bit. I'm not sure if the RAF TIGER FORCE got as far as India??

Memory has it that the Chinese got some [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

After the war the British had to put down a Communist insurrection in Malaya. I wonder if they used the Lancasters there.
One of my cousins fought there and said that to defeat the guerillas they had to "burn the jungle".

[JeffroK]

I know the RAAF used Lincolns in Malaya.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

I know the RAAF used Lincolns in Malaya.

Linc/Lanc - what's a vowel between friends ....[:)]

[Chris21wen]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: JeffK

I know the RAAF used Lincolns in Malaya.

Linc/Lanc - what's a vowel between friends ....[:)]

I'd say about 150 miles.

[dazoline II]

I did mean Lancasters.
Mea Culpa for not looking up my statement before writing it down.
I could have sworn Lancasters did fly in India during the war. I stand corrected.