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Originally posted by David_Hayward
They also used Avro Lincoln crews, and they had to retrain on the Lancs.
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They should have offered the jobs to the Chileans. When I was at Rolls Royce in the late 60s we were still supplying Merlin spares to keep their Lancs flying - over Antarctica too! Incidentaly RR were also trying to sell the Soare turbo jet engine which had originally been designed for Britain's post V1 missile. When this was scrapped the idea was to use the engine as a 'use once and then discard' to boost the performance of some of the RAF's aging aircraft (the idea being that when one detected a Mig 19 in the rear view one could switch on the emergemncy boost engine on an underwing pylon and then drop it before returning to base for a change of underwear). Unfortunatly thanks to RRs devotion to the best possible engineering standards in all circumstances this disposable engine cost as much as a Conway or a Spey.