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The experimental four-tonne bomb had to be dropped at the right height, at the right speed, at exactly the right distance from the target, to allow it to achieve the improbable feat of skipping across water.

A sight to make the heart swell: Britain's only airworthy Lancaster rolls back the years as it skims over Derwent Reservoir where Dambuster crews trained for famous raid 70 years ago A Lancaster bomber performed a flypast at Derwent Reservoir today as part of events to mark the 70th anniversary of the war-time Dambusters air raid.

Seventy years ago to the day 19 aircraft, crewed by 133 young men, took off on one of the most daring wartime missions that has now become one of the most well-known - the Dambusters.

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Buy this photo The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Avro Lancaster turns in front of the now-closed Didcot A power station during its display.

It was the dying days of WW2, and the German state, and its conquered territories, were being assaulted day and night by the Allies non-stop air offensive.

1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron flew to the Ruhr Valley, Germany's industrial heartland, where the bulk of the Nazi war materiel was being produced.

I took this picture on vacation in Ottawa last year and I enjoy showing it to fighter pilots and stumping them on aircraft identification.

When the Royal Air Force reached the end of World War Two, it was not facing such an uncertain future as it did in November, 1918.