sharing a Halifax picture .... and a question about it

[Larry]

And yet every aircraft I want to research seems to have been at MU's for months before being released

[Bill Walker]

Depends on the aircraft maturity, and the operational need. In late 1941 and early 1942 new Spitfires Vs were going to fighter squadrons within a few days of first flight, for use over the Continent. When the Lancasters first came out there were a lot of mods and updates to be done at the MUs, and they would be there for months. I would think a Halifax III in fall of 1944 would be a mature design, with regular losses at Bomber Command, plus the new airborne squadrons being formed.