Avro 707 at Farnborourgh 1951

The Avro 707 was a British experimental aircraft built to test the delta wing design of the Avro 698 (later to become the Vulcan), and was a scaled-down version of that aircraft. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1244x840, 136 KB) Avro 707 at Farnborough 1951, courtesy Aircraft Engine Historical Society, Inc. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1244x840, 136 KB) Avro 707 at Farnborough 1951, courtesy Aircraft Engine Historical Society, Inc. ... Avro 504K. Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, well known for planes such as the Avro Lancaster which served in World War II. One of the worlds first aircraft builders, A.V.Roe and Company was established at Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, England by Alliot Verdon Roe and his brother... The delta-wing is a wing planform in the form of a triangle. ... The Avro Vulcan was a British-built jet-engined, delta-winged subsonic bomber, once part of the RAFs V bomber force. ...

The aircraft were produced cheaply and quickly, five prototypes eventually being built. Only the first three provided useful information for the Vulcan project, the last two flying too late to be of much relevance.

One Avro 707 had crashed in September 1949. The Avro 707 made its final public appearance at the Farnborough Air Show, four surviving examples of the aircraft flying alongside two Vulcan prototypes. This is a list of aviation-related events from 1949: Events Aerolíneas Argentinas established. ... An Airbus A340 at Farnborough The Red Arrows in formation at Farnborough The Farnborough International Exhibition and Flying Display is an international trade fair for the aerospace business. ...

Specifications (Avro 707B)

General Characteristics

• Crew: one, pilot
• Length: 42 ft 4 in (12.90 m)
• Wingspan: 34 ft 2 in (10.41 m)
• Height: 11 ft 7 in (3.53 m)
• Wing area: 420 ft² (39 m²)
• Empty: lb ( kg)
• Loaded: 9,500 lb (4,309 kg)
• Maximum takeoff: lb ( kg)
• Powerplant: 1x Rolls-Royce Derwent 8, 3,600 lbf (16 kN) thrust

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Performance

• Maximum speed: 467 mph (747 km/h)
• Range: miles ( km)
• Service ceiling: ft ( m)
• Rate of climb: ft/min ( m/min)
• Wing loading: 22.6 lb/ft² (110 kg/m²)
• Thrust-to-weight: 1:2.6

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