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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
It is not an Me110, because that has constant taper from the wingroot whereas this aircraft has a kink in the trailing edge....
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I looked at the whole thing again and took measurements from the enlarged picture, s.a. width of the elevator, distance from elevator leading edge to wing trailing edge, distance from engine nacelle to wingtip and devided these figures by the same measurements from profiles that I have in books. In theory these divisions should give the same result for
all different areas that I measured. I did this for the ME-110, the JU-88 and the Lanc and indeed the figures for the Lanc matched best. The ME and the JU had at least one that did not match. Also looking at the distance of the engine nacelle to the wingtip, this is too long for it to be a ME110 or a JU88. A bit scientific approach but it seems to work. This and the shape of the elevator, which is perhaps the clearest part in the picture, as well as the shape of the wings convinced me that this must indeed be a Lancaster. I fail to see 4 engines but that could indeed be the moving object vs. long shutter speed issue.
Interesting discussion though!
Cheers
Jos
