Ok, I know that this plane figure in cover (and in detail!) in Tony buttler book, but I haven't got this book and need some details on this monster. Just performances, weight dimensions and a 3-view drawing would be cool.
In what context was this project developed ? Did the RAF seriously bite...
From "Were the Wrights Right?" by B R A Burns in Air International December 1983
The Avro design is the late 730 design, the other two designs were labelled as Handley Page and Vickers, but transposed (the Handley Page design is known from Secret Projects: Jet Bombers). The third design...
air ministry
avro 730
bomberbombers
great britain
late 1950s
ministry of supply
nuclear battlefield
rafbombercommand
royal air force
strategic reconnaissance
supersonic
united kingdom
aircraft nuclear propulsion program
atomic aircraft
atomic era
cold war
great britain
jet age
nuclear powered aircraft
post-cold war
rafbombercommand
soviet union
space age
strategic air command
strategic bomber
united kingdom
united states
united states air force
I was thinking the other day, 'did the British ever think of, or look at a carrier-based variant of the English Electric Canberra light bomber'?
Does anyone know an answer to this?
Regards
Pioneer
cold war
english electric company limited
great britain
nuclear battlefield
rafbombercommandraf strike command
royal air force
strategic air command
strategic reconnaissance
united states air force
A supersonic bomber project out of Britain. This was the first model I mastered for Fantastic Plastic.
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/Avro730CatalogPage.htm
1960s
a.v. roe and company / avro
alternate history
avro 730
bomber
cold war
great britain
model
nuclear battlefield
rafbombercommand
royal air force
strategic reconnaissance
aerial refueling
air ministry
air-launched ballistic missile
airborne early warning
airlifter
airliner
civil aviation
cold war
electronic warfare
great britain
nuclear battlefield
rafbombercommand
rolls-royce
royal air force
sigint
strategic bomber
tanker aircraft
transport aircraft
vickers-armstrongs
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