The Avro 679 Manchester was a British twin-engine heavy bomber developed and manufactured by the Avro aircraft company in the United Kingdom. While not...
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H) Avro 502 Avro 503 (Type H) Avro 504 Avro 508 Avro 510 Avro 511 Avro 514 Avro 519 Avro 521 Avro 523 Pike Avro 527 Avro 528 Avro 529 Avro 530 Avro 531...
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The Avro 533 Manchester was a First World War-era twin-engine biplane photo-reconnaissance and bomber aircraft designed and manufactured by Avro. Designed...
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during the same era. The Lancaster has its origins in the twin-engine Avro Manchester which had been developed during the late 1930s in response to the Air...
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the Manchester Mark III and then subsequently renamed Avro Lancaster, going on to great success as the RAF's leading heavy bomber. Avro Manchester Blackburn...
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Avro Football Club is a football club based in the Limeside area of Oldham, Greater Manchester. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League...
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Hale Avenue Avro Reserves Bolton Borough Bolton Lads and Girls Bolton United Boothstown East Manchester Elton Vale Govan and Uni of Manchester Hindley Juniors...
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Metropolitan-Vickers made Avro Manchester and Avro Lancaster bombers and Ford built the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines to power them. Manchester was thus the target...
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Roy Chadwick (category Avro Lancaster)
Avro, based at Brownsfield Mill, Manchester. Under the direction of A.V. Roe, Chadwick drafted the Avro D, a two-seater tractor biplane, the Avro E...
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Australia Manchester, Bolivia, a town Manchester, Nova Scotia, Canada, a small community Manchester Parish, Jamaica Manchester, Suriname, a settlement Avro 533...
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farmland by Avro during late 1924 following their eviction from Alexandra Park in Manchester. The first recorded air display was in 1925. Avro became a part...
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Handley Page to the same specification as the contemporary twin-engine Avro Manchester. The Halifax has its origins in the twin-engine H.P.56 proposal of...
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Leslie Manser who sacrificed himself so his crew could abandon the Avro Manchester aircraft. The Blitz – German air raids on British cities in which at...
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Woodford Aerodrome (redirect from Manchester Woodford Airport)
factory at Woodford, Greater Manchester, England, 6 NM (11 km; 6.9 mi) north of Macclesfield. It was opened by the Avro company after the First World...
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Zeppelin-Staaken R.XV Zeppelin-Staaken R.XVI Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Avro 549 Aldershot Avro Manchester Blériot 127 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Bréguet 410 Bristol...
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British Aerospace 146 (redirect from Avro RJ)
Avro RJ family of aircraft was assembled at the Avro International (BAE Systems Regional Aircraft Centre) at Woodford Aerodrome in Greater Manchester...
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The Avro 707 (also known as Type 707) is an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Avro. It was developed to...
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Altrincham Hale Avenue Avro Reserves Bolton Borough Bolton Lads & Girls Club Bolton United De La Salle East Manchester Horwich R.M.I. Manchester Corinthians Old...
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Squadron then operating from RAF Skellingthorpe, and converted to the new Avro Manchester medium bomber. He piloted one of the new aircraft during a leaflet...
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The Avro Anson is a British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft built by the aircraft manufacturer Avro. Large numbers of the type served in a variety of...
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designed from the start with four engines - the Avro Lancaster was a re-engined, stretched-wingspan Avro Manchester while the Halifax was planned to be powered...
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The Avro Type 694 Lincoln is a British four-engined heavy bomber, which first flew on 9 June 1944. Developed from the Avro Lancaster, the first Lincoln...
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The Avro York was a British transport aircraft developed by Avro during the Second World War. The design was derived from the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber...
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Rolls-Royce Merlin (section Manchester)
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Avro Athena Avro Lancaster Avro Lancastrian Avro Lincoln Avro Manchester III Avro Tudor Avro York Boulton Paul Balliol and...
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BAE Chadderton (category Greater Manchester articles missing geocoordinate data)
under licence; the Avro Manchester; the York; the Lincoln; the Tudor; the Shackleton; and the Vulcan. A substantial amount of Avro's documentation (including...
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are recorded as manufacturing the Avro 504 under licence. A. V. Roe and Co Ltd., Park Works, Newton Heath, Manchester; and at Hamble Aerodrome, near Southampton...
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to receive the Avro Manchester heavy bomber. No. 44 Squadron RAF was the first in RAF Bomber Command to fly operationally with the Avro Lancaster on 2...
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Albemarle (RAF) Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (RAF) Avro Manchester (RAF) Avro Lancaster (RAF) Avro Lincoln (RAF) Boeing Fortress (RAF) Boulton Paul Overstrand...
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Vulture was briefly used in the Avro Manchester heavy bomber, before engine failures caused it to be replaced by the Avro Lancaster (powered by the Rolls-Royce...
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The Avro Type 688 Tudor was a British piston-engined airliner based on Avro's four-engine Lincoln bomber, itself a descendant of the famous Lancaster...
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