Avro Aircraft Since 1908

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Avro Aircraft Since 1908

By Aubrey Joseph Jackson

Publisher: Putnam & Co., First edition 1965 470 Pages

ISBN: 037000051X

PDF 323 MB

The career of Alliott Verdon Roe, founder and first designer of the great British aircraft manufacturing firm of A. V. Roe and Co. Ltd., who flew model gliders from the s.s. Inchanga in 1901-02, won prizes for rubber driven models in 1907, made the first sustained flight in an all-British aero­plane in 1909 and was knighted for services to aviation in 1929, is too well known to need repetition. This book seeks instead to record as completely as possible all aeroplanes which have borne the Avro trademark, together with something of their technical details and operational histories.

From 'stick and string' days at Brooklands, Shoreham and Manchester, the story covers the First World War era and the production of that now-legendary masterpiece, the Avro 504 in all its variants. Their descriptions spread through the book in chronological sequence. Hamble, birthplace of classic Avro seaplanes, where Bert Hinkler tested military and civil prototypes designed by Roy Chadwick between the wars, was the scene of early autogiro experiments which qualify for chapter status because complete Avro airframes were used.

In 1928 ' A. V.3 left the firm and the story moves again to Manchester where in 1936 the company became a member of the Hawker Siddeley Group. It tells of world sales of Avian and Tutor derivatives and production of those giants of the Second World War, the Anson and Lancaster. From the York and a series of interim passenger transports it proceeds to the mighty Vulcan delta bomber and comes finally to the turbine powered Avro 748, last aircraft to originate with the Avro prefix. Later designs had H.S. designations resulting from a change of company style to the Avro-Whitworth Division of Hawker Siddeley Aviation effective from July 1, 1963. Information given in the chapter on the Vulcan is confined to that already made publicly available.