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'Black Tulip' unmarked black Lancasters at Enstone?


ben_m

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I was reading in a book on Oxfordshire's wartime airfields about some black unmarked Lancasters operating from Enstone. Google only turned up this discussion:

http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?613-Enstone/page2

Which runs to page 4.

It is quite intriguing (talk of secret meetings in woods and British atomic bombs), but there is no evidence apart from a photo which doesn't convincingly show that the Lancaster is all black.

Has anyone else heard anything about this tale? Seems like it could easily be based on something really boring, but seen by people from the outside with active imaginations (if anything unusual even took place at all).

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Hmmm.... You're right, the photo isn't all that convincing is it: looks like standard camouflage on a MkIII, something in the bomb aimer's blister and no turret guns, it certainly has the bomb doors still fitted which doesn't match the story (and what a story!). Could be anywhere in 1945!

Nice story though. Lancaster - paint semi gloss black - no serials or unit codes - do it as a 'what could have been'!

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Nice story though. Lancaster - paint semi gloss black - no serials or unit codes - do it as a 'what could have been'!

Yes, and hang a Fat Man or Little Boy from it! Or put one on a trolly in front.

Of course, if Top Secret pick a serial in red and add /G. Nothing more. It would make a nice diversion.

Tim

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