Name: Lancaster run-up: a day at the Bomber Command Museum
Uploaded: 2025-05-23
Duration: 3 min 25 s

Lancaster run-up: a day at the Bomber Command Museum

Alberta Aviation Museum · May 23, 2025 · 3:25 · English · Documentary

Video from the channel Alberta Aviation Museum about Avro Lancaster, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:25. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

The Alberta Aviation Museum travels to the Bomber Command Museum of Canada, in Nanton (Alberta), about four hours from Edmonton, to attend an engine run-up day for its Lancaster.

The volunteer archivist explains that the museum is devoted to Bomber Command and the training plan that supported it. It has a memorial with 11,000 names of Canadians, close to a quarter of the country's casualties in the Second World War, half a dozen training aircraft and three bombers. The museum runs its engines, from the Halifax's 14-cylinder Bristol Hercules radials to the Merlins.

The Lancaster is the centrepiece, and the video culminates with its four Merlins running.

Lancaster run-up: a day at the Bomber Command Museum

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