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The Avro Lincoln was the last of the WW2 era British bombers, serving the RAAF as a bomber and later maritime reconnaissance aircraft from 1946 to 1961. Lincoln B.30A73-41 was a veteran of service in Malaya, its bomb log revealing 60 missions flown with No 1 Sqdn RAAF. The author flew one hour in command of a Lincoln, a very rare and highly unusual feat for a naval aviator.
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Avro Lincoln
I doubt that there are too many naval pilots who can claim one hour of command time in a Lincoln!
This rare honour came about as a result in a change in policy at CFS during my instructor’s course, on how best to give an introduction to asymmetric flying. Prior to our course, each student was given two hours dual in Dakotas and two hours in a Lincoln. Someone, to whom I will be eternally grateful, decided that the Dakota flying should be dropped and that we should be given five hours dual and one hour solo in the Lincoln.
There was no question of us learning the systems, we didn’t even have to know how to start the beast. I imagine that what we went through was somewhat similar to the process in the Air Transport Auxiliary during WW2, where pilots were given just enough experience to enable them to get the aircraft from A to B.
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