Snautzer01
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The Lancaster as a potential nuclear bomber in 1945
OK, I see your point. The Blue Danube was designed for the jet engined V-bombers (and possibly vice versa).
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That was a prototype Groundhog thread. There was a poster on that (and other) thread that gave the tone that commonwealth aircraft were ignored unjustly. After making some pretty ignorant statements and having several of our members call him out, the individual left the stage voluntarilyThe Lancaster as a potential nuclear bomber in 1945
OK, I see your point. The Blue Danube was designed for the jet engined V-bombers (and possibly vice versa).ww2aircraft.net
You it's bad when I can find the errors.
Did anyone check the sources this person gave here in this post?.That was a prototype Groundhog thread. There was a poster on that (and other) thread that gave the tone that commonwealth aircraft were ignored unjustly. After making some pretty ignorant statements and having several of our members call him out, the individual left the stage voluntarily
I did - some of his references were valid, some of his points were speculative based on very loose "what if" scenarios. For example, he did cite that Norman Ramsey, one of the architects of the bomb looked into using the Lancaster and did meet with Roy Chadwick. This was true but the final decision was not his and as history played out the B-29 was the chosen platform. He came up with very optimistic performance numbers where he felt the Lancaster VI was able to perform on par with the B-29. Bottom line, once it was decided to go forward with the Silverplate mod, the commitment was there and the poster who kept pushing the Lancaster nuke conspiracy theory probably just fed the "Black Lancaster" story which was utter BS!Did anyone check the sources this person gave here in this post?.
Sweet bejeebers. I can't believe that Mark Felton would have pedalled such obvious cack.I did - some of his references were valid, some of his points were speculative based on very loose "what if" scenarios. For example, he did cite that Norman Ramsey, one of the architects of the bomb looked into using the Lancaster and did meet with Roy Chadwick. This was true but the final decision was not his and as history played out the B-29 was the chosen platform. He came up with very optimistic performance numbers where he felt the Lancaster VI was able to perform on par with the B-29. Bottom line, once it was decided to go forward with the Silverplate mod, the commitment was there and the poster who kept pushing the Lancaster nuke conspiracy theory probably just fed the "Black Lancaster" story which was utter BS!
Yep - and the conspiracy theories arose from the smoldering bovine fecal matter!Sweet bejeebers. I can't believe that Mark Felton would have pedalled such obvious cack.
Yeah, I UNfixed it. Should have left the error in."You know* it's bad [...]"
Yeah, I fixed it. Should have left the error in.
You are forgetting that Britain had the Stirling, Lancaster and Halifax several years before the B-29 entered service in any numbers. That trio proved that they could deliver strategic bombing from 1942 on, two years before the B-29.The B-29 was the first bomber able to deliver the strategic effects the bomber advocates dreamed of.
It was the first bomber with the performance and bomb load to able to be used to smash cities at will.
Nothing was the same after B San.