Could a Lancaster bomber perform a barrel loop?
Tim My bomber is returning from a night sortie over Berlin and is crossing the Channel in an early summer dawn. These times don’t need to be too precise for the purposes of the film. The important part is to reinforce the impression – to the audience – early on, that this pilot has a really natural gift for flying and is extremely cool under stressful combat conditions (like the majority of these pilots were of course). No, I want to use the FW-190 (he’s bounced by another one later on in the story) but thanks for the suggestions – appreciate the helpful sentiment behind them. At the moment I’m just trying to familiarise myself with flight dynamics – control surfaces and such. Conversing with people like you, it strikes me how deeply ignorant I am even about the basics. Meanwhile, a friend of mine was (hopefully, still is) going out with an RAF pilot who flies Hercules into Kandahar so I’m going to run some ideas past him if I can. A family friend of mine who was a navigator on a Lanca
