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Avro Lancaster Bomb Loads: http://www.lancaster-archive.com/Lanc-bombs-Loads.htm Avro Lancaster Engine And Propellers: http://www.lancaster-archive.com/Lanc-Eng-Props.htm Major Bombsights used in WW2 Bomber Command: http://www.lancaster-archive.com/bc-bombsights.html http://www.lancaster-archive.com/bc-T1story.html Bomber Command Groups Sorties and Loss Percenatage By Aircraft Type: http://www.lancaster-archive.com/bc-Groups.htm Average Cost of One Lancaster Operational Sortie http://www.lancaster-archive.com/Lanc-SortieCost.html Quote:
The following is an approximate cost to the British economy based on 1943 prices to build, arm, supply ground and air crew for a Lancaster Bomber for one (1) operational bombing sortie.
1 Lancaster cost £42,000.00 to purchase. (This assumes minimal profits being made by the manufacture.)
1 Lancaster required 5,000 tons of hard aluminium or the equivalent of 11 million sauce pans.
1 Lancaster required the equivalent manufacturing capability required to build 40 basic automobiles of the period.
1 Lancaster absorbed the equivalent manhours as it takes to build one mile (1.61 Km’s) of a modern highway (motorway).
1 Lancaster carried the equivalent radio and radar equipment to fabricate one million domestic radios of the period.
Each member of a Lancaster crew cost £10,000.00 to train. The average cost for a Lancaster was therefore £70,000 or £80,000 if the crew consisted of 8 crew members.
To fuel, bomb, arm and service a single Lancaster required an additional £13,000.00. This also includes an allowance for the cost to raining the ground crews.
Thus the average cost to the British economy for EACH Lancaster bombing sortie was on average £100,000.00
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