Avro
Lancaster Mk III  QRM
‘Mickey the Moocher'
AvHistory - Version-4.00.164

This Lancaster is a B-grade plane. Cockpits are rudimentary, fully functional, but not final. The flight & damage package, Version 4.00.164 is fully implementated

This aircrafts M3D was devloped by Ted "NachtPiloten" Kaniuka based on the original work of Mathias Pommerien.  John BRAVO/4 Whelan painted the Lancaster as "Mickey The Moocher"

The optional custom Lancaster engine sound package was provided for this aircraft by Des Braban & Doug Smith.



Lancaster III EE176 ‘QR-M' ‘Mickey the Moocher' of 61 Squadron, based at Skellingthorpe. EE176 was one of only 35 Lancaster centurions - aircraft that flew and survived in excess of 100 missions. ‘Mickey' is believed to have flown between 115 and 128 missions against targets including Berlin (15 missions), Cologne, Dortmund, Brunswick and the breakout at Caen. The nose art features ‘Mickey the Mouse' pulling a bomb trolley and 112 bomb symbols as shown on a wartime photograph of EE176.

The original QR-M survived the war but like so many other ‘Lancs' that had served their country well, it was unceremoniously scrapped.

The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). First used in 1942, together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was the main heavy bomber of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving with RAF Bomber Command. Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing. The Lancaster was famous as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 raids on Germany's important dams.

The Lancaster Mk III had newer Merlin engines but was otherwise identical to earlier versions; 3,030 Mk IIIs were built, almost all at A.V. Roe's Newton Heath factory.

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