Get an incredibly close-up view as we witness the powerful engine start-up of the iconic WWII Avro Lancaster bomber, NX611! This historic aircraft is on the cusp of returning to flight after extensive ...

On July 25th, 1939, an odd-looking aircraft took off on its maiden flight from Manchester Ringway aerodrome, England, with Avro ... the Lancaster was able to fly on just one working engine ...

Interestingly, the award-winning steel structure measures 102ft high - the wing span of an Avro Lancaster bomber, and 16ft wide at the base - the width of a Lancaster wing. "It's an amazing ...

Unless you're a fan of war gaming or a particularly studious aviation geek, you think of either the Avro ... or a Lancaster. It wasn't a bomber nor a fighter, but rather a twin-engine, multi ...

More than half were bomber bases, earning it the name 'Bomber County', and most of those bombers were Avro ... Royce engines meant that it could fly into the heart of Nazi Germany. Lancaster ...