Operation Chastise - Lancaster B1 engine servicing

On Wed, 27 May 2009 05:36:20 -0400, Alan Erskine wrote
(in article ):

"Dave Kearton" wrote in message
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Merlin?



Of course it's a bloody Merlin, thou berk. It's clearly a V-12 inline
internal combustion engine mounted on what's obviously a wartime operational
Lancaster, which makes it a Merlin. The majority of Lancs were fitted with
Merlins, and the majority of those _not_ fitted with Merlins had Hercules
_radial_ engines... and _all_ Lancs not fitted with either Merlins or
Hercules were either limited wartime editions, which did _not_ go into
squadron service in the field, or post-war systems.