Talk:Avro Manchester

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[edit] Figure discrepancy

There is a discrepancy between the production figures for the Manchester - the info box reports a total of 202 units while a figure of 209 is mentioned in the body of the article. Is anyone able to confirm the correct figure? --Adrian M. H. 19:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catapult

The He 177 Greif article makes brief mention of a catapult launch requirement for the Manchester. Does anyone know an more about this? KiwiBiggles 01:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Surprisingly, the Manchester was originally designed for catapult launching. At the time it was feared that airfields would not last long under bombing attack and that the runways would soon become unusable. To obviate this difficulty, for a short time it was actually a requirement for the Manchester to be capable of something called 'assisted (or "frictionless") take off', which in-effect, meant launching by land-based catapult.

Of course, while launching something small like a Fairey Seafox or similar from a shipboard catapult was possible, the land-based catapult used a Cordite charge to propel the aircraft and it was found that scaling-up this charge for an aircraft the size of a Manchester would be impracticable and probably dangerous to the aircrew. In additon, it was found that a catapult capable of launching an aircraft of this size would need engineering along similar lines to that of the Forth Bridge, and so the requirement was later dropped.

The legacy of this design requirement however remained in the design of the Manchester's (and resulting Lancaster's) fuselage, in the shape of the interior floor/bomb bay roof, which was designed as a strong 'backbone' around-which the rest of the aircraft was built.

The airfield runway problem was of course also the reasoning behind the later Hawker Siddeley Harrier. Ian Dunster 15:32, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avro Manchester Image Gallery

Hello,

I have started doing an aircraft image gallery(hobby project) and I think it will be useful to add a link to it here. I have tried this in the past but I broke some rules (you are not allowed to add links to your own website) so it was deleted by another user (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TAG.Odessa#Why_are_you_deleting_the_external_links.3F).

The solution, according to the 'external links' rules : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:EL#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest is to "please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it".

Avro Manchester : http://www.aircraft-list.com/db/Avro_Manchester/25/

So please look over that page and if you think it is useful then add it, if not then just ignore this message.

Thanks

Best wishes

Nekhbet 08:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)