ROE, A. V.

UK

In 1906 A. V. Roe began aircraft design, and on in July 1909 was the first Briton to make tentative flights in an all-British aircraft, namely his Roe I triplane. Two years later, in 1911, the renowned Avro Company was established. First aircraft to enter quantity production was the 504 trainer, built in large numbers and several versions. Then followed a long line of Avro biplanes including the Tutor, Cadet and Avian. In 1928 Avro acquired a license to build the Fokker F.VIIB/3M as the Avro 618 Ten: it carried eight passengers and two crew, and orders included five for Australian National Airways. Rivaling the success of the 504 was the twin-engined Anson trainer and coastal patrol monoplane, flown as the Avro Tudor 652 civil transport for Imperial Airways in 1935. More than 10,000 Ansons were built in Britain and Canada between 1935 and 1952. The twin-engined Manchester bomber of 1939, with the unproven Rolls-Royce Vulture engines, was not a success, but led to the superb four-engined Lancaster, of which 7,374 were built during Second World War. The York transport derivative mated the same wings and tail, plus a central fin, with an entirely new fuselage seating 12 passengers. The Lincoln bomber was built as a replacement for the Lancaster, entering RAF service soon after VJ-day. Avro's postwar Tudor transport was not a success, and the company's last piston-engined aircraft was the Shackleton four-engined maritime reconnaissance aircraft. Following production of four Avro 707 delta research aircraft, the company produced the four-jet delta-wing Vulcan bomber, which began to enter RAF service in 1956. Avro's last design before being restyled the Avro Whitworth Division of Hawker Siddeley Aviation, in 1963, was the Avro 748 twin-turboprop transport (first flown in 1960). Back to the letter R

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