Avro Atlantic

[overscan]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hawker-Siddeley-Aircraft-Engines-brochure-1950-s_W0QQitemZ110099217507QQihZ001QQcategoryZ40051QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This brochure has an artist's impression of the Avro Atlantic in. Wonder if its the same one as posted above?

[elmayerle]

we'll hopefully see, I'm bidding on it.

[overscan]

Hmmm

Seems wrong for you to bid on it, Evan, for postage reasons if nothing else!

 
Paul.

[kitnut617]

Here it goes from Air Enthusiast 19 article 'The Vulcan...(Almost) A Valediction.'

I have a few pictures and 3-views of the Atlantic as I have a build project going for one of these.  I have been in contact with a fellow who's name is Mike Meehan, he used to work in the Avro design office, and he sent me them, one of them shows the engines at mid span with the u/c between the engines and fuselage and has a distinct Comet forward fuselage look to it, where as the later drawings show something like a Boeing nose.  Mike told me that had it gone into production (the RAF was very interested in it at the time as a tanker/transport) it would most probably have had the Vulcan B.1 wing which had the small kinked leading edge to it.  There is also a very large model of this aircraft in the Avro Heritage Center, Woodford.

Robert

[elmayerle]

Seems wrong for you to bid on it, Evan, for postage reasons if nothing else!

*shrug* No worse than other such documentation I've bought from the UK in this manner.  *grin* Where do you think I got that brochure for the FAA version of the AV-8B+?

[Weaver]

As promised on another thread, I've just taken a slew of photos of the Atlantic model in the heritage centre at Woodford. Probably be posted tonight.

[zen]

Atlantic as a tanker?.....now theres a thought!

But perhaps theres some logic to that idea, as their fast and we know from later on have a smoother airflow at the back compared with the VC10.

Did we miss a trick?
After all this is damn near a 50's sonic cruiser type, and massively cheaper to operate for transatlantic flights.

Spey seems an odd option for engines, surely they meant the Medway?

[Weaver]

Taking photos proved a bit problematic as they'd moved the room around to do some maintainance and the Atlantic model was buried right at the back. Hope these are okay:

Rahter than post them all up, you can see the detail ones on my photobucket album:

http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d165/hws5mp/Avro%20Atlantic/

Before somebody asks, I didn't photograph the underside because it's absolutely featureless: no indication of the gear layout!

Many thanks to the Woodford Heritage centre guys who were very helpful indeed.