Word: avro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Sir Alliott Verdon Roe, 80, British aviation pioneer who made his first flight (in a plane of his own design) in 1908, founded A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd., built the famed Avro bombers of World War I, later became president of Saunders-Roe, Ltd., maker of Saro Flying Boats and helicopters; in Portsmouth, England...
...Comet disasters cost Britain upwards of $30 million. Another plane-the Bristol Brabazon-was designed to carry 100 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic, but it turned into a Rube Goldberg nightmare. Four other big airliners-the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes, the Avro Tudor and the $6.4 million Vickers 1000-also had little success and were scrapped...
...worst: the crash of a C124 Globemaster near Tokyo in 1953, killing 129 U.S. servicemen. In 1952, another C124 fell in the state of Washington, killing 87. In 1950, a British commercial Avro Tudor V, carrying Welsh rugby fans home from Dublin, crashed at Cardiff, killing...
...Britons have dreamed of the day when British lines would be flying British planes around the world. But with the exception of Vickers' short-haul Viscount turboprop (TIME, Jan. 3), most of Britain's postwar transports, especially its long-range planes, have been expensive flops. Avro's huge, highly touted Tudor transport failed in a series of disastrous crashes; Saunders-Roe's immense, ten-engined Princess flying boat has been in the prototype stage since 1946, still needs better engines; Bristol's equally large Brabazon, designed to carry 100 passengers across the Atlantic, never...
...Russians Ahead? Around the Coanda effect, Avro's Frost created a startling design shaped like a saucer, 40 ft. in diameter, with a squat jet engine in the middle and a bubble cockpit perched above. From the engine's 35 burner tubes blasts would radiate to 180 exhaust ports all around the saucer's edge. To apply the Coanda effect the pilot needs some kind of movable control over one lip of each exhaust. To take off he would set these controls to deflect the blasts downward. The downblasts carry along with them more air from above...