Avro continued working on his visions, and the Avro Vulcan bomber later became the most advanced bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1984. Primarily, Vulcan was intended as a high ...
As the designer of the Lancaster, the RAF’s workhouse heavy bomber of WW2, Roy Chadwick deserves to be lauded as a ‘Great’; it was his invention that delivered perhaps the most famed precision air ...
The Avro aircraft company opened its site at Woodford in Stockport 100 years ago. Workers there built some of the world’s most renowned aircraft, including the wartime Lancaster Bomber.