{"id":385,"date":"2014-07-25T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/?p=385"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:30:59","slug":"lancaster-b-ii-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster B II Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some colour footage of Lancaster B IIs from 426 squadron. Unlike other marks, the B II was fitted with radial Hercules VI engines. These engines were popular with crews because they offered a smaller target from below than the liquid-cooled Merlin XX. They were also slightly more powerful, at 1,650hp to the Merlin&#8217;s 1,480hp.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Avro Lancaster Bomber - Rare WWII Colour Film of the Lancaster\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o2SWXg9e_0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only about 300 Lancaster B IIs were built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some colour footage of Lancaster B IIs from 426 squadron. Unlike other marks, the B II was fitted with radial Hercules VI engines. These engines were popular with crews because they offered a smaller target from below than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}