Avro Round - Lancaster Traditional Cache
Hidden : 7/6/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber designed and built by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 .

The "Lanc", as it was affectionately known, thus became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, delivering 608,612 long tons of bombs in 156,000 sortie.

In its best month, June 1944, the quarter-mile long assembly lines at Woodford sent 156 Lancaster bombers out of the door, down the runway and off to war. A total of 7,377 of these four-engined bombers were built in all, playing a role in the Dambusters raid and in practically every significant air raid operation of the war.

 It had 55,000 separate parts and its has been estimated that half a million different manufacturing operations were involved to produce just one aircraft

The GPS seemed particularly erratic here. On Bing Maps and Google maps these look better. N 53° 19.560 W 002° 08.255 I'd appreciate your feedback on the accuracy. Alternate coords are appreciated.


Lancasters on the quarter mile long production line at Woodford. 1943

You are looking for a 35mm film pot under a large custom container.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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