Best Bomber of WW2 -- #3

[FLYBOYJ]

lazy! i spent half the day shoveling several tons of corn!

My god! Tell me you're not messing with those farm animals again!

 

[KraziKanuK]

600 pounds (US)

That is Imperial gallons, not American gallons, since it is from a British manual. It is 500lb American.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

what exactily does shoveling corn have to do with fiddling with animals

 

[FLYBOYJ]

600 pounds (US)

That is Imperial gallons, not American gallons, since it is from a British manual. It is 500lb American.

Very true! - Good observation!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

what exactily does shoveling corn have to do with fiddling with animals

You must be feeding the corn to something?!?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

we were putting it into trailers i was in the corn bin for most of the time........

 

[FLYBOYJ]

we were putting it into trailers i was in the corn bin for most of the time........

Trailers?!? My god are you smuggling corn?!?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you really are scraping the barrel for laughs now aren't you

 

[syscom3]

So whats the payload for a Lanc on a 3200 mile mission with a max altitude of 12,000 ft?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

like i said, i'll try to find out later tonight........

 

[FLYBOYJ]

you really are scraping the barrel for laughs now aren't you

I guess so....

 

[KraziKanuK]

Here we use machines and gravity to load corn in 'wagons'.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

So whats the payload for a Lanc on a 3200 mile mission with a max altitude of 12,000 ft?

He's gonna have to look at those tiny charts!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

Here we use machines and gravity to load corn in 'wagons'.

wagons, i thought they were flat bed

and we use augers but when you reach the bottom of the corn bin there's always allot that even gravity can't get to the bottom of the auger, so it's my job to help it along

 

[Nonskimmer]

Ah, what could be more exciting than farm talk, eh?

...Well, just about anything I guess.
Hmmm, think I'll go watch some paint dry.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

hey, farmers dig farm talk, infact i had quite an interesting discussion about it with my friend's girlfriend the other day, can you believe it, i gave her the link for the page where i posted the pics of our tractors, then the next day when she was plaiting ym hair she said they were old

 

[Nonskimmer]

Cool!



Not.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

would you like to hear about the time i got my finger crushed? or we almost rolled down a hill to our doom because of a muck spreader

 

[KraziKanuK]

would you like to hear about the time i got my finger crushed? or we almost rolled down a hill to our doom because of a muck spreader

Serves you right for putting your finger where it is not suppose to be. The hay loft with the girlfriend can....... . Seriously lanc, farms are dangerous work places. Is muck another word for manure? Muck is just mud, here.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you'd get torn apart for calling muck mud!! they're totally different! mud is just earth mixed in with water and is hated and has no real use, muck is manure, which is obviously very useful! and i know farms are dangerous i almost got impaled on a bale spike once!

but anyway, the lanc, i've been looking at the tiny charts, and can conclude that, with overload fuel tanks in the bomb bay (or in the fusilage as were sometimes carried) she could comfortably manage as 3,200 mile round trip with fuel for an emergency, with a payload between 4,000 and 2,000lbs at 20,000ft (the charts only gave the data for 20,000ft), and that includes the fuel used on the climb...........