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The Ministry of Supply selected Avro out of the British manufacturers though it had no previous experience in working on guided weapons other than some private venture work ; Handley Page had suggested a missile but the Elliots gyro based guidance system was inaccurate beyond.
The project was delayed by the need to develop the stainless steel fabrication techniques ; this would have been gained in building the Avro 730 but that had been cancelled by then.
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor believed that had the air force been forced to choose among the three British bombers under development in the late 1930s — the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling, and Handley Page Halifax — it would have chosen the wrong one.
Two bay biplanes ( with one set of struts closer to the fuselage, and another closer to the wing tips ) like the Avro 504 of World War I, were also common during the biplane's heyday, and some larger biplanes had three or more bays, the Handley Page Hyderabad for example had three.
ATL furthermore re-engined Argonauts, BOAC's Canadian-built Douglas DC-4s, with unused Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engines, which it sourced from the 88 spare Merlins Laker had acquired earlier along with BOAC's Halifaxes and several Avro Tudors purchased from the Government.
But the brand had a strong heritage appeal, and the marketing name " Avro RJ " ( regional jet ) was used by British Aerospace for production of the RJ-85 and RJ-100 models of the BAe 146 from 1994 to 2001.
However significant changes in a design might result in a name change-the Avro Manchester was renamed Avro Lancaster, which was in turn renamed Avro Lincoln as the design was improved, however the Lincoln had more in common with the Manchester than the late models of Spitfire did with the early versions so it wasn't consistent.
National Steel Car had turned out Avro Anson trainers, Handley Page Hampden bombers, Hawker Hurricane fighters and Westland Lysander army cooperation aircraft.
Smye, born in Hamilton, Ontario, had risen through the ranks of the government's departments overseeing wartime aircraft production, to Assistant General Manager of Federal Aircraft Limited, the Crown Corporation managing production of the Avro Anson at the National Steel Car / Victory Aircraft plant.
She flew the Avro Avian 594 Avian III, SN: R3 / AV / 101 owned by Lady Mary Heath and later purchased the aircraft and had it shipped back to the United States ( where it was assigned " unlicensed aircraft identification mark " 7083 ).
In 1943, the Brabazon Committee had laid down a set of civil aircraft transport types for the British aircraft industry to produce, but these were to be several years in coming, and particularly in the case of the tailwheel Avro Tudor, not what BOAC wanted.
A maritime version of the promising Avro Lincoln had yet to be ordered by the time the lend lease program ended in August 1945.
Guy Gibson had been based at Hemswell in his final posting and the airfield had been an operational Avro Lancaster base during the war.
However, part of the RAF's fleet of ageing Avro Lincolns had been mothballed at Hemswell prior to being broken up and several of these static aircraft appeared in background shots during filming, doubling for additional No 617 Squadron Lancasters.
* When it came to her notice that one of Avro Manhattan's woman friends had had an abortion, Stopes accused him of " murdering " the child.
The Avro Vulcan prototypes had a delta wing with a straight leading edge.
131 Velvet Gloves had been completed when the program was terminated in 1956, officially because of concerns about its ability to be launched at supersonic speeds from the Avro Arrow then under design, but also from the design being overtaken by developments in the United States.
pg 138, 139 “ Victory Village ” streets had war-time references ; Victory, McNaughton ( Andrew McNaughton, commander of the Canadian Forces in the UK ), Churchill and Lancaster ( Avro Lancasters were built at Victory Aircraft from 1943 to 1945 ).
These flying boats had enough range to operate as a transatlantic airliner, but largely served the post-war Empire ( Commonwealth ) market ; in competition with 4-engined land planes such as modified Avro Lancasters, Avro Lancastrian and Avro York.

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Of the total, nearly half were built at Avro's Woodford and Chadderton ( Manchester ) sites, with some 700 Lancasters built at the Avro " shadow " factory next to Leeds Bradford Airport ( formerly Yeadon Aerodrome ), northwest Leeds.
The first Avrocar being readied at the Avro factory in 1958
During the Second World War it was drained to prevent enemy aircraft using its reflection as a landmark to identify the nearby Avro factory.
On 17 April 1942 at around 3pm, six Avro Lancasters from 44 Sqn left in daylight for the MAN diesel engine ( for U-boats ) factory at Augsburg in southern Germany ( Bavaria ).
* Avro Canada is formed as a part of the Hawker Siddeley Group and takes over the former Victory Aircraft factory at Malton, Ontario, Canada.
Avro built a new shadow factory, to produce military aircraft, just to the north of the aerodrome ; a taxiway connected the factory to the aerodrome and many of the aircraft first flew from Yeadon.
In January 1942 it was transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production, whereupon Avro built a shadow factory for the production of Albermarles, Anson's, Lancasters, Yorks, and Lincolns.
In 1928, he moved back to the Avro factory in Woodford, Greater Manchester, used today by BAE Systems.
He is commemorated by a blue plaque on the surviving office building of the Avro factory at Greengate.
In the Second World War Manchester played a key role as an industrial manufacturing city, including the Avro aircraft factory ( now BAE Systems ) which built countless aircraft for the RAF, the most famous being the Avro Lancaster bomber.
Initially the major wartime contract to manufacture Avro Lancaster heavy bombers was to go to the National Steel Car Ltd. headquartered in Hamilton, utilizing the Malton, Ontario factory ( near today's Toronto Pearson International Airport ).
With the design of the much improved four-engined derivative, the Avro Lancaster, MV switched production to that famous type, supplied with Rolls-Royce Merlin engines from the Ford Trafford Park shadow factory.
Roe ( Avro ) established his factory in 1910.

Avro and next
Roe Canada's next design, the Avro XC-100, Canada's first jet fighter, started at the end of the era of propeller-driven aircraft and the beginning of the jet age.
During the next eleven months he led 106, flying the Avro Manchester and then the Avro Lancaster, personally completing 46 sorties.
The squadron flew the next twelve years with the Avro Shackleton MR. 3, a version that used a tricycle undercarriage as opposed to the earlier tailwheel variants.

Avro and Aerodrome
The airfield is now known as Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, and is no longer the home of the airworthy Avro Vulcan XH558, the aircraft leaving at the start of the 2009 display season, she is currently at Robin Hood Airport.
British aircraft manufacturer Avro assembled aircraft at the Alexandra Park Aerodrome, south of Mauldeth Road West, from 1918, but left for Woodford Aerodrome on its closure in 1924.
Woodford Aerodrome opened in 1924 for Avro, and produced aircraft such as the Avro Lancaster, used in World War II.

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* 1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile.
It was not until the concluding months of 1943 that the only realized attempt to build a " true four engined " version of the A-series He 177, the He 177B emerged with only three airworthy prototypes produced by early 1944, some three years after the first flights of the Avro Lancaster prototypes, the most commonly encountered RAF bomber pounding Germany on strategic night raids from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe.
* In the James Bond film Thunderball, Emilio Largo steals the nuclear weapons from an Avro Vulcan.
The Tudor was a pressurised but problematic post-war Avro airliner that faced strong competition from designs by Bristol, Canadair, Douglas, Handley Page, and Lockheed.
The BAe ATP ( Advanced Turbo Prop ) design evolved from the Avro 748 and examples continue in use on shorter, mainly domestic, scheduled air services.
Parnall received large orders from the Admiralty to build aircraft designed by other manufacturers, principally the Avro 504 and Short Admiralty Type 827 ( of which 20 were built ).
This panel arrangement was incorporated into every RAF aircraft, from the light single engined Tiger Moth trainer, to the 4-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber, and minimized the type-conversion difficulties associated with Blind Flying, since a pilot trained on one aircraft could quickly become accustomed to any other if the instruments were identical.
Drawings developed by Avro show an aircraft that appears to be a merging of flying saucer with more conventional fuselage shapes, in other words a tail-less aircraft with circular wings ( when viewed from above or below ).
The company continued building jet engines, under licence, for the RCAF from Avro and Canadair Aircraft Ltd in the 1960s.
On 4 July 1948 a Scandinavian Airlines Douglas DC-6 on a flight from Amsterdam to RAF Northolt collided with a RAF Avro York coming from Malta over Northwood.
During the funeral an Avro Vulcan bomber from 617 Squadron ( the Dambusters ) flew overhead as a mark of respect.
An Avro Anson was equipped with an American Hallicrafters S-27 amateur radio receiver, the only known receiver capable of receiving the 40 MHz signal at the time, requisitioned from a shop in Lisle Street, London, operated by a member of the Y Service.
To cover the 22nd Armoured Brigade group's withdrawal on 14 / 15 June, 337 Royal Air Force ( RAF ) bombers ( 223 Avro Lancasters, 100 Handley Page Halifax, 14 de Havilland Mosquitos ) from No. 4 Group RAF, No. 5 Group RAF and No. 8 Group RAF dropped 1, 700 tons of high explosives on the town of Évrecy and on targets around Villers-Bocage, destroying one Tiger tank of the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion and damaging three more.
The ventral turret fitted to some early Avro Lancasters was sighted by periscope from within the fuselage, and proved of little use.
When the Gannet was withdrawn, the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) redeployed the radars from the Gannets onto Avro Shackleton MR. 2 airframes, redesignated Shackleton AEW. 2.
During the Second World War, on 4 October 1943, an RAF Avro Lancaster ED583 crashed in the village during a test flight from RAF Waltham, killing the crew.
The first civilian flight from the then new London Heathrow Airport, a BSAA Avro Lancastrian, flew to Ministro Pistarini International Airport in 1946.
The first flight from Mascot was on 19 November 1919 when Love carried freelance movie photographer Billy Marshall up in an Avro.
Orenda Aerospace, the only remaining original company from the Avro Canada / Hawker Siddeley Canada era, although greatly diminished in size and scope of operations, became part of the Magellan Aerospace Corporation.

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