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L7486 was an Avro 679 Manchester B Mk. IA, one of
200 whose type served with eleven RAF night bomber squadrons. The
Manchester had a relatively brief service career, from November
1940 to June 1942, largely because of problems associated by the
unreliability and eventual lack of power shown by the Rolls-Royce
Vulture I engines with which it was fitted. The bomber could, however,
maintain height on one engine, and in one case an Aircraft flew
600 miles from Berlin to its base in England after having had an
engine knocked out by gunfire in addition to other extensive damage.
In addition to a 10,350 pound bomb load in cavernous bomb-bay nearly
half the length of the fuselage, the armament consisted of eight
.303-inch machine-guns: two in the nose, two in a dorsal turret,
and four in a turret in the tail.
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