>>Lancaster is more of the english country girl, curly hair always
>>fetched back with a scarf or hairband - completely happy to wade
>>around in even the worst weather with wellies on her feet and a heavy
>>coat. Or turning a hockey field into mud. Sturdily built, with
>>sensible shoes, sensible skirt and unshakeable good cheer.

Unfortunately, while Lancaster is known as the poster girl for Bomber Command and the one all the Britannian coaches talk about, some still mention her elder sister Manchester. Poor girl, so full of hope, let down by a sickly heart. She'd get the worst attacks, sometimes even falling from the skies without warning. She got shuffled off the team after her little sister made the scene, but you can still occasionally find her fulfilling a "Team Mom" position, a warm cup of tea at the ready for her weary sister and her friends.

Oddly enough, she later found a friend in He-177 ("Greif"), whose own heart issues caused her no small amount of grief despite Vice-Headmaster Göring's insistence she soldier on. The two can, in between Britannia/Germania matches, be found drinking tea and chatting happily. For a time, they were joined by B-29, who experienced her own problems before eventually becoming strong enough to fight without too much issue.

>(Stirling's elder sister Sunderland also likes beating up submarines,
>which is understandable, seeing as Sundy's half-boat herself.)

Borrowing a concept from Kantai Collection, I find myself imaging the various flying boats and float-plane fighters as wearing abbreviated naval uniforms of their team over a swim suit, if not just dispensing with the uniform entirely. It certainly makes for an amusing image in cases like Zero and Rufe, the two seemingly identical aside from the latter looking like she's on her way to the pool.