Could a Avro Lancaster bomber have carried the first Atom bomb?

[Weaver]

Is that anything like a Heisenberg Compensator? Sounds like a job for Chief O'Brien. Although he is more likely to be running about in a Defiant.

Anyone who gets the references, give yourself a jumja stick.

That'd be funny: get all the real planes that share a name with a sci-fi ship then paint them in the sci-fi ship's colours. So get a Boulton-Paul Defiant, then paint it pale grey with pale blue panels, red stripes and NX-74205 serials...

[sideshowbob9]

Weaver, sounds like a wonderful idea for a group build!

Scooter, isn't that set in the 25 century? That would make him 80? 90? More? I know the pension age keeps going up but damn!

My own interest in that particular universe peters out after 2375 or so....

Back to the Lancaster, the more I think about it, the more I am liking the expendable, radio-controlled idea. If 2-ship reconnaissance flights were made in the weeks leading up to the mission (perhaps taking H2S snaps?) then it might be possible to inure Japanese interceptors to the approach of another pair, especially in their fuel-starved condition.

In addition, perhaps the commander of the BPF could be prevailed upon to spare some Seafires to prowl the ingress/egress lanes. Say 40?

[scooter]

Scooter, isn't that set in the 25 century? That would make him 80? 90? More? I know the pension age keeps going up but damn!

Mea culpa.  I checked the STO Wiki and it's his son that's Chief Engineer of Enterprise F.

[The Wooksta!]

I'd imagine that any Lancaster armed with an atomic device would be nigh on identical with a Grand Slam Lancaster - faired over turrets, tail turret down to two guns only and internally lightened (IIRC, the seats were replaced with wicker ones!) as much as possible.  Even stripping off the paint could help, especially with the flash.  Felton's claim that the Lancasters were "black" probably refers to their status rather than camo, as they would have been delivered in the standard Lancaster camouflage.

Tempted to do one from an old tool Airfix kit, but I've enough part started Lancasters to make a choice easier. 

Tiger Force was to have been split into two groups - one in Burma and wearing standard SEAC roundels, the other on Iwo Jima alongside the B-29s with BPF style roundels to avoid friendly fire incidents which the US is all too good at.

[AeroplaneDriver]

Just posted on a a UK pilot message board...very timely. 

https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/634697-black-lancasters.html