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  AmeliaFlight.com
Because the Avian was such a great-flying little airplane, it was used by many well-known aviation personalities of the time, some of who became well known in part because of the Avian.
Another famous Avian pilot was Beryl Markham whose book, West with the Night, chronicles her experiences in Africa and her many hours of flight in her trusty Avro Avian.
Of course, the most famous pilot and the most famous Avro Avian, at least for those of us in the United States, are Amelia Earhart and her Avian, 7083.
www.ameliaflight.com /ameliaflight/avroavian.po   (1593 words)

  
 AVRO
In the post war years the factory's Avro title was absorbed into Hawker Siddeley Aviation with the industry's rationalisation in 1963, and further changes in 1977 saw the Chadderton plant become part of British Aerospace.In 1999 a further name change was made to BAE SYSTEMS.
The aircraft produced at Chadderton in recent years, the Avro 748 and ATP Advanced Turboprop airliners and components for the BAe 146 and RJ Regional Jet Avroliner, may not be as familiar as their predecessors, but are no less significant in the world's air transport industry.
The Avro Anson was-already in production and serving with the RAF and a number of other countries after pre-war deliveries was soon alongside the Blenheim, but the Company was pinning its hopes on the new Avro Manchester bomber.
www.chadderton-hs.freeuk.com /page11-avro.htm   (2679 words)

  
  Arrow Replica
One of the "stars" of the 1997 CBC television miniseries on the Avro Arrow was a full-scale mockup of the Avro
The replica, which was used for several scenes in the mini-series, has had a history almost as tortured as the Arrow itself.
Chris Gainor is writing a book about the engineers who went from Avro Canada in 1959 to work on the U.S. space program.
www.avroarrow.org /AvroArrow/replica.html   (1012 words)

  
  SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Avro
Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, well known for planes such as the Avro Lancaster which served in World War II.
A twin turboprop airliner, the Avro 748, was developed during the 1950s and sold widely across the globe, powered by two Rolls Royce Dart engines.
The Royal Flight of the United Kingdom bought a few and a variant with a rear-loading ramp and a "kneeling" main undercarriage was sold to the RAF and several members of The Commonwealth as the Andover, named after a town in Hampshire.
www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Avro   (659 words)

  
 Avro Aircraft
Alliot Verdon Roe, the founder of Avro, the firm that was to play such a...
The Avro 521 two-seat fighter, which was flown late in 1915, was something of a hybrid...
The original Avro Trainer of 1929 was designed as a replacement for the Avro 504N...
avia.russian.ee /air/england/a_avro.html   (386 words)

  
 Avro - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Image:Avro.png Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, well known for planes such as the Avro Lancaster which served in World War II.
Image:Avro.504k.642pix.jpg One of the world's first aircraft builders, A.V.Roe and Company was established at Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, England by Alliot Verdon Roe and his brother H.V.Roe on 1st January 1910.
When the company was absorbed into Hawker Siddeley Aviation in July 1963 the Avro name seemed to have disappeared forever but the brand had such a strong heritage appeal that the marketing name "Avro RJ" (regional jet) was applied to the British Aerospace 146 from 1994 to 2001.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Avro   (787 words)

  
 Avro at AllExperts
AVRO is also the name of a Dutch public-service broadcasting organization.
The Vulcan was used to maintain the British nuclear deterrent using the Avro Blue Steel stand-off nuclear bomb.
When the company was absorbed into Hawker Siddeley Aviation in July 1963 the Avro name seemed to have disappeared forever but the brand had such a strong heritage appeal that the marketing name "Avro RJ" (regional jet) was applied to the British Aerospace 146 from 1994 to 2001.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/av/avro.htm   (854 words)

  
 Bush Plane, 1928: Expo 86, Avro Avian, bush plane, Wop May, The History of Transportation, The official portfolio of ...
The first Canadian mercy flight in aviation history which was made in an open cockpit Avro Avian in 1930 flying out of Edmonton, Alberta.
I ultimately decided on the Avro Avian, a fabric covered little biplane with a top speed of one hundred and sixty kilometers per hour.
An Avro Avian was being flown by a British Columbia bush pilot by the name of Pooley between 1925 and 1930 and I have shown his numbers.
www.johncrittenden.com /_expo/small/expo18.html   (219 words)

  
 Avro Avian - general purpose, sports aircraft
Wooden two-seat Avro 581 Avian powered by a 52kW Armstrong Siddeley Genet engine; built for the Lympne Trials.
Replaced by the metal fuselage Avro 616 Avian IVM and Sports Avian variant in 1929, produced in small numbers in the UK, Canada and the USA.
I have a propellor which I am informed by RAF Museum Hendon may have been used in the mid thirties on a Avro Avian.
www.aviastar.org /air/england/avro_avian.php   (183 words)

  
 Jessie Maude 'Chubbie' Miller (1910-1972), Pioneer Aviatrix
Her introduction to celebrity status was as the first woman to fly across the world from England to Australia-her friend Bill Lancaster taking her as a passenger in his two seat Avro Avian.
While waiting for their damaged machine to be repaired, they were passed by another Avro Avian en route to Darwin.
The Avro Avian was being piloted by Englishman Captain William N Lancaster at the time of the crash on April 12, 1933.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/miller.html   (4278 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Avro Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One of the world's first aircraft builders, A.V.Roe and Company was established...
The Avro Lincoln, Manchester, Lancaster and post war WWII Vulcan bombers were particularly famous Avro designs.
During 2003 that record may be overtaken by the English Electric Canberra.
www.ipedia.com /avro.html   (718 words)

  
 Fort Edmonton Foundation
Although there were many pilots and airplanes that played an important role in Edmonton's aviation history, the Foundation decided that the Avro Avian biplane would be most appropriate for the Park.
There are, however, only five original Avro Avians still surviving; thus it was more feasible for us to construct a replica.
Our Avro Avian replica is finished in the original colors and markings that it wore when operated by Commercial Airways of Alberta Ltd. in 1929.
www.fortedmontonfoundation.org /biplane.htm   (433 words)

  
 avro
At Hamble, with The AVRO "Antarctic" Baby; Roy Chadwick seated far right, after his accident (he used a stick, for several years), with R.J. Parrot the Avro, General Manager, and Major Carr, the pilot of Sir Ernest Shackleton's "Shackleton-Rowett Expedition" to the Antarctic, in1921.
For the AVIAN aeroplane, this type of fuselage was used; and the whole was of strong construction.
Also, in 1929, the Air Ministry decided to replace the Avro 504 type training aircraft, which had been in use with the RAF since 1917; and a competition was held, to decide which company would build a replacement.
homepages.manx.net /mdove   (3409 words)

  
 Avro Avian IVM — Canada Aviation Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Originally built as a light sporting aircraft, the Avro Avian was also useful as a trainer to civil operators and some Commonwealth air forces.
In Canada, civil Avians were used by many flying clubs and bush operators, while the 30 or so supplied to the RCAF were flown little and used mainly as instructional airframes or passed on to flying clubs.
Unlike earlier Avians, whose fuselages were constructed of wood, the IVM’s fuselage is made of steel tube.
www.aviation.technomuses.ca /collections/artifacts/aircraft/AvroAvianIVM.shtml   (261 words)

  
 Grand adventure Air Classics - Find Articles
A year earlier, she had set an altitude record in the same craft which was a small Avro Avian biplane.
This was a dream she had for some time and she felt the Avian would be an ideal form of transport.
On 2 September, the Avian departed Pittsburgh and arrived at Dayton where Amelia was given a tour of the Army's aircraft at Wright Field.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200110/ai_n8991525   (923 words)

  
 RCAF.com : Aircraft
The Avro "Avian", a single-engined light training biplane, was first flight tested in England in 1922.
The Avro Model 621 was initially known as the Trainer and it was a light initial pilot trainer, which originated as private venture of the Avro Company in England.
It was the first aircraft to be flown by the RAF to have a retractable undercarriage which was a comparative novelty in 1936.
www.rcaf.com /data/index.php?p=getcat&db_id=2&cat_id=4   (390 words)

  
 Welcome to Karl's Avro Arrow Page [KAAP]
Other money-earning ventures were the founding of an aircraft spares warehouse and the invention and marketing of a turnbuckle for tightening the bracing wires used on aircraft in those days.
The civil market was hotly contested and Avro's most successful aircraft was the Avro Avian.
As a result both of the Avro brothers, Alliott and Humpfrey, left to join S.E. Saunders Limited of Cowes, Isle of Wight.
www.kaap.purpleglen.com /avroe.html   (569 words)

  
 AVROLAND - The other aircraft   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A pair of Iroquois engines were to power the projected Avro CF-105 Arrow long-range interceptor, which was currently under development in Canada.
Avian Aircraft Ltd of Georgetown, Ontario which was founded by former Avro Canada employee's, created it's Avian 2/180 gyroplane in 1966.
Empty and gross weights are 1,300 lb (590 kg) and 1,900 lb (862 kg); normal cruising speed is 100 mph (161 km/h) and the range is 400 miles (643 km).
www.avroland.ca /al-other-aircraft.html   (446 words)

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