obviously, my name kind of tells you what i think allready, but I'm gonna tell you bout it anyway. the first great thing about the lanc. has little to do with the plane it's self. How many planes as sucsessfull as the lancaster have been pulled out of the ashes of a, to be blunt, crap plane? The lanc. is one of them, as it came out of the hugely unsecsessfull avro manchester, they just made the fusilage bigger, put on bigger wings, and a couple more engines. delivered in 1941 it took on the role of night bomber, where it exelled. Very few planes have ever been so decisive in a war before as the lanc. ofcorse it's claim to fame was when 19 aircraft of the newly formed 617 squadren took part in the "dambusters" raid, provind how great the planes were, and indeed how skillled the crew were, even if the mission wasn't much of a sucsess from a tactical point of view.