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AVRO Anson / XIX

Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, with numerous landmark designs such as the Avro 504 trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster which was one of the pre-eminent bombers during the Second World War and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War.

One of the world's first aircraft builders, A.V. Roe and Company was established at Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, by Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother H.V. Roe on 1 January 1910. Alliot had already made a name for himself as a pilot at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey and Farnborough in Hampshire. One early product was the A.V. Roe Bulls Eye, a duplex triplane with a wingspan of 20 feet.[1] The company built the world's first totally enclosed monoplane in 1912, but it was th Merlin Engined AVRO Lancaster e well-proportioned, wooden biplane known as the Avro 504 that kept the firm busy throughout the First World War and beyond. Production totalled 8,340 at several factories: Hamble, Failsworth, Miles Platting and Newton Heath and continued for almost 20 years. This was a substantial achievement considering the novelty of powered aircraft in this period. Text content from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro

AVRO Anson

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The Avro Anson was a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and numerous other air forces during the Second World War and afterwards. Named for British admiral George Anson, it was originally designed for maritime reconnaissance, but was soon rendered obsolete. However it was rescued from obscurity by its suitability as a multi-engine air crew trainer, becoming the mainstay of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. By the end of its production life in 1952, the Anson spanned nine variants and a total of 8,138 had been built in Britain by Avro and, from 1941, a further 2,882 by the Canadian Federal Aircraft Ltd. Text content from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Anson

AVRO XIX (Anson)

The sound of an AVRO XIX (a civilian Anson) flying at The Shuttleworth Collection.

AVRO XIX Old Warden 6th June 2010, Recording 2

AVRO XIX based at Old Warden recorded 6th June 2010 at the Shuttleworth D-Day Airshow

AVRO XIX Old Warden 6th June 2010, Recording 1

AVRO XIX based at Old Warden recorded 6th June 2010 at the Shuttleworth D-Day Airshow

AVRO Tutor

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A.V. Roe's Type 621 Tutor was a two-seat British radial engined biplane from the interwar period. It was a simple but rugged initial trainer that was used by the Royal Air Force as well as many other air arms worldwide.

AVRO Tutor at Old Warden, August 2009, (c) James Huckle The Avro Model 621 was designed by Roy Chadwick as an Avro private venture metal replacement for the Avro 504. Conceived as a light initial pilot trainer, the biplane design featured heavily staggered equal span, single-bay wings; the construction was based on steel tubing (with some wooden components in the wing ribs) with doped linen covering. A conventional, fixed divided main undercarriage with tail skid was used in all but the latest aircraft, which had a tail wheel.

The Model 621 was powered either by a 155 hp (116 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose or Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV (180 hp/130 kW) or IVC (240 hp/179 kW) engine; later Lynx-powered models had the engine enclosed in a Townend ring cowling. The Mongoose powered version was called the 621 Trainer and the more numerous Lynx engined aircraft the Tutor. The Tutor also differed by having a more rounded rudder.

The first flight of the prototype G-AAKT was either late in 1929 or early in 1930. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_tutor

Avro Tutor

Avro Tutor

Avro Tutor, recorded at and operated by the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Beds, UK.

AVRO Lancaster

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The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War heavy bomber made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the RCAF and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it was affectionately known, became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties."[2] Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster

AVRO Lancaster

This is a recording of the Battle of Britain Memorial flights AVRO Lancaster.

The Lancaster Bomber. PA474, acquired by the BBMF in 1973, is one of only two airworthy condition Lancaster remaining, the other is in Canada. She was built in mid-1945 and assigned to reconnaissance duties after appearing too late to take part in the bombing of Japan. After various duties she was adopted by the Air Historical Branch for future displays. She ap Merlin Engined AVRO Lancaster Spectrograph peared in two films 'Operation Crossbow' and 'The Guns of Navarone'. Having been flown for much of her service with the BBMF as 'City of Lincoln', PA474 presently wears the markings of the 'Phantom of the Ruhr' depicting a Lancaster that flew 121 sorties, a so called 'ton-up' Lancaster. She displays the markings of bombs for operations over Germany, ice-cream cones for operations over Italy, and poppies for when she has released poppies during exhibition flights.

AVRO Lancaster

This is a recording of the Battle of Britain Memorial flights AVRO Lancaster.

Merlin Engined AVRO Lancaster Spectrograph The Lancaster Bomber. PA474, acquired by the BBMF in 1973, is one of only two airworthy condition Lancaster remaining, the other is in Canada. She was built in mid-1945 and assigned to reconnaissance duties after appearing too late to take part in the bombing of Japan. After various duties she was adopted by the Air Historical Branch for future displays. She appeared in two films 'Operation Crossbow' and 'The Guns of Navarone'. Having been flown for much of her service with the BBMF as 'City of Lincoln', PA474 presently wears the markings of the 'Phantom of the Ruhr' depicting a Lancaster that flew 121 sorties, a so called 'ton-up' Lancaster. She displays the markings of bombs for operations over Germany, ice-cream cones for operations over Italy, and poppies for when she has released poppies during exhibition flights.