Avro Lancastrian – Jet Powered Lancaster Story

Here we shall look at the Avro Lancastrian, Engine Test Bed, troop transport, and airliner.

As always, we shall be referring to wartime Air Ministry Manuals.

Textual extracts from Air Ministry Air Publications are Crown Copyright and transcribed with the kind permission of the National Archives, London. All colour diagrams are based on original Air Ministry Air Publications mono illustrations and transcribed into colour by Bryan Atkinson with the permission of the National Archives, London.

Thanks must also be given to the following superb organisations for their kind support when Bryan Atkinson originally developed The Lancaster Explored PC CD-ROM back in 2004, all are listed below and are included once again in this series of videos.

Lancaster B.Mk.I, PA474. The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Lancaster B.Mk.I, R5868. Royal Air Force Museum, London.
Lancaster B. Mk.III, DV372. Imperial War Museum.
Lancaster B.Mk.X, KB889. Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
Lancaster B.Mk.VII, NX611. Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre.
The Norman Groom & Jeremy Hall Lancaster Nose Sections.

The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust.
The National Archives, London.


The material contained in this video is intended for historical, reference and entertainment value only, and is not to be construed as usable for aircraft or component restoration, maintenance, or use.


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Photographs Used:

Star Dust
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Test Bed
RuthAS, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Aries
Canadian government employee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

RAF
Clark N S (Mr), Royal Air Force official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Royal Air Force official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

John Hill, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

BOAC
British official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Royal Air Force official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Aitallia
Jennifer Gradidge, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Map
TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

The Earth
NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

North Pole
NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Milk Churn
oatsy40, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Nene Engine
USN, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Avro Tudor
RuthAS, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Avro York
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

BOAC Captain O P Jones
Clark N S (Flt Lt), Royal Air Force official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Berlin Airlift
USAF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Berlin Airlift, Avro York
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons


The below photographs are included with the kind permission of Harold A Skaarup:-

Avro Lancaster B Mk. I (Serial No. R5727), built in the UK and flown to Victory Aircraft in Malton, Canada in August 1942 to serve as a pattern for the other Lancasters to be built in Canada. (CFJIC-DND Photos, PL-1182, PL-1174, PL-1175 and PL-1180 via Don Smith)

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00:00 Introduction
00:43 What is the Lancastrian?
01:07 The Lancastrian Story
02:01 Trans Canadian Airlines
02:06 First Test
02:18 Flight to the UK
03:15 At A V Roes Ltd
03:24 Converted Lancaster B Mk.X
03:35 XPP
04:05 The Lancastrian C 1
04:39 Record-Breaking Flights
05:01 The Kangaroo Service
05:43 Captain O P Opie Jones
06:11 BSAA
06:28 Lancastrian in RAF Service
07:40 The Aries Story
09:06 Why Aries one?
09:12 Argentinian Service
09:56 BEA 1947
10:03 Italian Service
10:40 Silver City
10:46 Skyways
11:03 BOAC
11:14 Qantas
11:51 The Berlin Airlift
11:58 Flight Refuelling Ltd
12:21 The 1947 Milk Shortage
12:44 Lancastrian Engine Test Aircraft
14:50 SBAC Show at Radlett
14:58 First Jet Passenger Airliner
15:53 What they said
17:11 Lancaster & Lancastrian Differences
18:09 The Control Yoke
18:47 The Instrument Panel
19:11 The Flight Engineer's Panel
19:35 Inside the Lancastrian
21:53 The Avro York
22:01 In Memory of Stardust
22:29 Thanks for Watching