| Sir Able Brush | 29 Oct 2019 2:48 p.m. PST |
What were they used for? ebay.to/2BTQacr - they clearly are not part of the undercarriage. |
ScottWashburn  | 29 Oct 2019 3:00 p.m. PST |
Something to hold the bomber up when they were changing tires or working on the undercarriage? |
 Old Contemptible  | 29 Oct 2019 3:26 p.m. PST |
Probably used to prop the aircraft up in order to load some of the larger bombs, like the Tall Boy bombs. |
| Old Contemptible | 29 Oct 2019 3:30 p.m. PST |
The nose on the Lancaster sits pretty high anyway. So not sure that is right. |
| BattlerBritain | 29 Oct 2019 3:37 p.m. PST |
They're standard aircraft servicing jacks. They're used to raise the aircraft off the ground for various tasks, such as checking the undercarriage can go up and down. Hercs use similar jacks. |
| Sir Able Brush | 29 Oct 2019 3:39 p.m. PST |
so probably not Lancaster Jacks? |
| jdginaz | 29 Oct 2019 4:37 p.m. PST |
I believe most aircraft jack stands are generic but it's possible that there were specific stands for the Lancaster. |
| Mike Petro | 29 Oct 2019 4:54 p.m. PST |
The Herc jacks much larger, well the wing jacks. Those look about the part for the nose jacks. |
 ColCampbell | 29 Oct 2019 4:54 p.m. PST |
I'd say from looking at the various pictures posted that these are probably the "real McCoy." Jim |
| 55th Division | 29 Oct 2019 6:32 p.m. PST |
definite buyer beware these look identical to the Jacks I used whilst in the RAF in the 1980's unless they have paperwork saying they were used on Lancasters I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole |
| 55th Division | 29 Oct 2019 6:52 p.m. PST |
yeah just looked at some more photos they have of the jacks the test date is 13/11/87 and they have a NATO stock number on the manufacturers plate which gives an earliest date of 1949 so yep I think they stink
auction |
| Sir Able Brush | 30 Oct 2019 3:32 a.m. PST |
sounded too good to be true … and naturally I've learnt something obvious, if you are going to test to see if the undercarriage works you need the plane off the ground. Doh! |
| Walking Sailor | 30 Oct 2019 11:32 a.m. PST |
Well, I don't have a Lanc to jack up. Heck, I don't even have the service manual link to look that up. |
paints up some WWII Soviet aircraft.
