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The new Lancaster by Aeroplane Heaven

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Would be interesting if you fly from England to Germany and back non stop with full bomb load there and empty load back without running out of fuel!! That is challenge.

Regards,

Aharon

JK !

Very noice.
Wow that's a quick response, it was only released a couple of days ago - great that it's a FS20 model.
There will be a few model updates to be sure, then it's time to go dambusting one more time.

Some users are currently celebrating the release of a new Avro Lancaster model.
I won't join in — not because the model isn't good, but because I’ve flown several versions of the Lancaster over the years in FSX and P3D for review purposes. My feelings about this aircraft are a little different now.

Further north in Brandenburg, near Rathenow, the wreck of an RAF bomber still lies hidden in a swamp. The remains of the crew were recovered long ago and returned to the UK. No one seems to know for sure whether it was an Avro Lancaster or a Handley Page Halifax.

The city doesn't have the money to raise the aircraft.
And it’s not the only one.
Brandenburg still holds several World War II wrecks — Allied and German — some known, many not. A recent discovery involves an American B-17:

https://www.rnd.de/panorama/usa-graben- ... KZD5Q.html

In East Germany, where I grew up, such topics were largely avoided.
Downed aircraft didn’t fit the official narrative.
It wasn’t politically wise to dig — literally or figuratively.

One phrase, though, stuck with me — a sentence we were required to learn, but which gained weight over time:

“A war is only over when the prisoners are home and the dead have all been found.” (Lenin)

And it isn’t over.
Thousands of airmen are still missing — especially from the German Luftwaffe, which defended the Reich in the final years of the war.
Many were buried hastily, or left where they fell.
And now we’re running out of time. The dog tags buried with the dead are corroding. In a few more decades, many will be unreadable.

The search is difficult.
And urgent.

"And it isn’t over.
Thousands of airmen are still missing — especially from the German Luftwaffe, which defended the Reich in the final years of the war.
Many were buried hastily, or left where they fell.
And now we’re running out of time. The dog tags buried with the dead are corroding. In a few more decades, many will be unreadable.

The search is difficult.
And urgent."

Agree 100%

Aharon wrote:Would be interesting if you fly from England to Germany and back non stop with full bomb load there and empty load back without running out of fuel!! That is challenge.

Regards,

Aharon

Well they did it , over and over. I'm glad there is no place in MSFS for dropping bombs .
I've given up on any sim that can do that for the time being...too much of that crap going on at the moment, by nations that think they have the right to do so.

Splitpin wrote:Well they did it , over and over.

I am referring to recreate the bombing missions of Lancester using flight sim to see if the flight simmer can fly it round trip without running out of fuel.

I re-created in my FSX real world D-Day mission using DC-3/C-47 departing from air force base in England to fly in pitch dark night to France to air-drop paratroopers and supplies and made back to the sane base in England with ONLY THREE PERCENT of remaining fuel left!!!

Imagine if some flight simmer can recreate Lancester mission from England to Germany and back without running out of fuel.

Regards,

Aharon