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The Lincoln was still Merlin-powered*.Somebody put this pix of an Avro Lincoln bomber on a shipping and history site I visit. It's such a good pix I thought it might be appreciated here. It's in Australian colours (RAAF) and the location is Japan in 1947.
I'm told the Lincoln was basically an upgraded Lancaster, fitted with Rolls Royce Griffin engines. It was even converted for passenger carrying for a while !!!! (Wow that must have been noisy.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accidentI remember seeing an Horizon program about a famous one that disappeared over the Andes and was found decades later emerging from the base of a glacier. Apparently they were using dead reckoning to calculate their position, but hadn't counted on the 'Jetstream' which meant when they decided to lose altitude thinking they'd crossed the Andes, they flew straight into a mountain and were buried in snow and ice, hence the searches never found them.
There's a famous mystery about that flight, enigmatic Morse messages were heard from the aircraft.
People still make mistakes, landing at the wrong airport is not unknown - and mistaking adjacent motorway lights for runways...These days we take navigation for granted, what with all the aids from Omega, Loran, Decca, the old SatNav system, GPS and several other rather more military setups. But in those days, if you couldn't see the Sun, or stars, or ground, it was dead reckoning. (Also known as 'guesswork.')
Well, that brought up this other video of the plane being dragged back out of the trees, after a flaps-up landing at an 'airport' that had been shut for five years, resulting in no injuries, much less any fatalities.This just popped up on You Tube - it appears to have ended up there as a result of a successful emergency landing, stood around for a bit and finally been repaired and flown out empty - hence leaving the wheels down for longer than normal...
The driver's comments may be something along the lines of "As long as I can see some bits of the centreline, we should be OK".
One of the smaller ones is in Moscow.Not sure if this should in the maritime thread, https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legendary-soviet-ekranoplan/30777774.html