THE AVRO MANCHESTER

摘要

Only 202 Avro Manchesters were built, and the airplane was retired from operational service in World War Ⅱ after less than a year and a half. The Manchester was indisputably one of the RAF's failures, but it was also the progenitor of a whole family of highly successful, long-lived military aircraft that included the Lancaster and Lincoln bombers, the York transport and the Shackleton maritime patrol plane. For that reason alone it deserves the hitherto-denied historical treatment that Robert Kirby has delivered.