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Silhouettes of an early Avro 698 concept and the cancelled Avro 710. The origin of the Vulcan and the other V bombers is linked with early British atomic weapon programme and nuclear deterrent policies. Britain's atom bomb programme began with Air Staff Operational Requirement OR.1001 issued in August 1946.
Avro (an initialism of the founder's name) was a British aircraft manufacturer.Its designs include the Avro 504, used as a trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War.
British Aircraft Double Eagle: 2: British Aircraft Eagle [238] 4: British Aircraft Swallow [238] 9: some converted into gliders British Aircraft Company Drone: 1: 608 Squadron: Blackburn B-2: 31: No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Brough Boeing 247D [238] 1: Telecommunications Research Establishment, ex-RCAF: Cessna C-34 Airmaster: 1
The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation, jet-powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid- to late 1940s in response to a 1944 Air Ministry requirement for a successor to the wartime de Havilland Mosquito fast bomber. Among the performance requirements for the type was an outstanding high ...
[5] [6] This is deemed to be the first use of an aircraft as a bomber. [5] [7] The first heavier-than-air aircraft purposely designed for bombing were the Italian Caproni Ca 30 and British Bristol T.B.8, both of 1913. [8] The Bristol T.B.8 was an early British single engined biplane built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
Bomber aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-surface attack, ... Reconnaissance bomber: 1937: Prototype: 2: British Aerospace Harrier II: UK ...
Here is a list of aircraft used by the British Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Army Air Corps (AAC) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) [1] during the Second World War.
The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber.It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same era.