Cathedral City Bomber

摘要

The heart of the Lincoln's great structural strength lay in its wing/ fuselage joint. This was an integral unit, first designed for Avro's Manchester, carried over into the Lancaster and then to the Lincoln.rnThe original specification requirement that the B.14/43 aircraft should be operational by mid-1945 dictated that as much as possible, in terms of construction jig and tooling, should already be available. Thus some 70 per cent of the Lincoln was common to the Lancaster, and the aircraft would have met the specified in-service date had it not been for Air Chief Marshal Harris's demand that nothing should affect Lancaster production. The Far East conflict was no concern of his.rnOne fundamental change in the construction of the Lincoln was that stronger mushroom-head rivets were employed, compared with the flush rivets used in its predecessor.