| CF-105 Avro Arrow - 373 sec
1997 news spot on the Avro Arrow from CBC News (The National). The Avro CF-105 Arrow was a delta-wing interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) in Malton, Ontario, Canada, as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953.
Auteur : undaunted
Tags: Airplane Avro Arrow CF-105 CBC News Canada Malton 1997
 | | The Avro Lancaster - 257 sec
The Windsor Historical Society brings you footage from the 2006 Lancaster-Warbird Reunion with an educational perspective. Learn about the Lancaster's beginnings with the A.V. Roe Company and the bomber's contributions to the World War II effort.
www.windsorhistoricalsociety.com
Auteur : Andreea34
Tags:andreea34 Lancaster Avro WWII bomber airplane warbird aircraft history
| | AVRO Lancaster Production - 414 sec
The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving with RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it became affectionately known, became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties." Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams.
The origins of the Lancaster lie in a twin-engined bomber design powered by Rolls-Royce Vulture engines submitted to Specification P.13/36 which was for a new generation of twin-engined medium bombers. The resulting aircraft was the Avro Manchester, which, although a capable aircraft, was troubled by the unreliability of the Vulture and withdrawn from service in 1942, by which point 200 aircraft had been built.
Avro's chief designer, Roy Chadwick, was already working on an improved Manchester design using four of the more reliable but less powerful Rolls-Royce Merlin engines on a larger wing. The aircraft was initially designated Avro Type 683 Manchester III, and later re-named the Lancaster. The prototype aircraft BT308 was assembled by Avro's experimental flight department at Manchester's Ringway Airport from where test pilot H.A. "Bill" Thorn took the controls for its first flight on Thursday, 9 January 1941. The aircraft proved to be a great improvement on its predecessor, being "one of the few warplanes in history to be 'right' from the start." Its initial three-finned tail layout, a result of being converted from a Manchester I, was quickly changed on the second prototype DG595 and subsequent production aircraft to the familiar twin-finned specification used on the later Manchesters (below).
Some of the later orders for Manchesters were changed in favour of Lancasters; the designs were very similar and both featured the same distinctive greenhouse cockpit, turret nose and twin tail. The Lancaster discarded the stubby central third tail fin of the early Manchesters and used the wider span tailplane and larger elliptical twin fins from the later Manchester IA.
The majority of Lancasters built during the war years were manufactured by Avro at their factory at Chadderton near Manchester and test flown from Woodford Aerodrome in Cheshire. Other Lancasters were built by Metropolitan-Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth. The aircraft was also produced at the Austin Motor Company works in Longbridge, Birmingham later in the Second World War and postwar at Chester by Vickers-Armstrongs. Only 300 of the Lancaster B II with Bristol Hercules engines were constructed. The Lancaster B III had Packard Merlin engines but was otherwise identical to contemporary B Is, with 3,030 B IIIs built, almost all at A.V. Roe's Newton Heath factory. The B I and B III were built concurrently, and minor modifications were made to both marks as new batches were ordered. Examples of these modifications were the relocation of the pitot head from the nose to the side of the cockpit, and the change from de Havilland "needle blade" propellers to Hamilton Standard or Nash Kelvinator made "paddle blade" propellers.
A total of 7,377 Lancasters of all marks were built throughout the duration of the war, each at a 1943 cost of £45-50,000 (approximately equivalent to £1.3-1.5 million in 2005 currency).
The test pilot Alex Henshaw is the only known pilot to have barrel rolled a Lancaster bomber, a feat considered almost impossible because of the slow speed of the aircraft.
General characteristics
Crew: 7: pilot, flight engineer, navigator, bomb aimer, wireless operator, mid-upper and rear gunners
Length: 69 ft 5 in (21.18 m)
Wingspan: 102 ft (31.09 m)
Height: 19 ft 7 in (5.97 m)
Wing area: 1,300 ft² (120 m²)
Empty weight: 36 828 lb (16,705 kg)
Loaded weight: 63,000 lb (29,000 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Rolls-Royce Merlin XX V12 engines, 1,280 hp (954 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 240 knots (280 mph, 450 km/h) at 15,000 ft (5,600 m)
Range: 2,700 nm (3,000 mi, 4,600 km) with minimal bomb load
Service ceiling: 23,500 ft (8,160 m)
Wing loading: 48 lb/ft² (240 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.081 hp/lb (130 W/kg)
Armament
Guns: 8× 0.303 in (7.70 mm) Browning machine guns in three turrets
Bombs:
Maximum: 22,000 lb (10,000 kg)
Typical: 14,000 lb (6,400 kg)
Auteur : Bomberguy
Tags:AVRO Lancaster ww2 bomber aviation history
| | A Part of Our Heritage - Avro Arrow - 59 sec
The Avro Arrow episiode from Canada's "Hertiage Minutes" series. Pure Canadiana!
Auteur : larryllama
Tags:heritage minutes canada canadian cbc history avro arrow canadiana
| | Avro Vulcan - 132 sec
Avro Vulcan
Auteur : vulcanfanman
Tags:Avro Vulcan
| | Avro Triplane - 15 sec
The Avro Triplane Replica built for the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
Auteur : 4thfrog
Tags: Avro Triplane Replica shuttleworth
| | Avro Tutor - 188 sec
AVRO 621 TUTOR - The Chadwick-designed Avro 621, flown in 1929, provided the RAF with a replacement for the Avro 504N basic trainer, leading to production of 381 Tutors and 15 Avro 646 Sea Tutors. Some 200, plus five Sea Tutors, still on RAF strength when WWII began, and extensively used initially in training role, later as station hacks, etc. At least one each used in Hong Kong and Singapore. Three civil Tutors also impressed, 1940/41. Six Tutors acquired 1931 by RCAF, flown until 1943. Danish Navy had five (three-locally-built) at time of German occupation, but stored without use. Survivors of 29 Tutors bought by Greek Air Force survived until 1941. SAAF still flying many Tutors in 1939, of some 60 acquired, primarily from local production. Standard Tutor powered by 240 hp Lynx IVC.
Auteur : auldm
Tags:Avro Tutor WW2 RAF Aviation Warbird Aircraft
| | AVRO Lancaster on Gilze-Rijen 2005 - 195 sec
This video shows the AVRO Lancaster during the KLU open days on airbase Gilze-Rijen on June 17-18th. 2005.
The video and the edit are originally made by Carel Esser, member of the Fokker Four display team.
Auteur : Carel26
Tags:Lancaster AVRO-Lancaster Fokker-Four Open-dagen-2005
| | Festival Classique - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust - AVRO - 230 sec
Voor menigeen is een blokfluit een beginnersinstrument. Voor het Loeki Stardust Quartet is niets minder waar. Zij maken de fluit tot een spannend instrument.
gemaakt door Daniël Brugge en Julian Willemsen
Auteur : dbrugge
Tags:Daniel brugge julian Willemsen festival Classique klassiek klassieke muziek classic classical music avro blokfluit
| | Enrico Ruggeri - Ti Avrò (1990) - 272 sec
Dal "Festivalbar '90".
Enrico Ruggeri - Ti Avrò
(E.Ruggeri)
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Hai mai seguito il volo
di un falco o di un gabbiano
traiettorie ardite nel vento
dentro al cielo lontano?
Io sono così
e ho voglia di volare
mentre dico che ti avrò
e ti avrò
Hai osservato il pasto
di un qualsiasi felino
o la voglia di vivere che
fa gridare il bambino?
Io sono così
e non mi posso fermare
quando dico che ti avrò
ti avrò
Ti avrò perché sto male
se non ti sento mia
ti avrò perché non posso più aspettare
Ti avrò perché ti voglio
e con la fantasia
ho costruito un mondo
che dovrai guardare solamente tu
Hai mai cercato nella notte
tra gli animali soli
nei percorsi imprecisi
o nei pochi colori?
Io sono così
e non mi posso sbagliare
quando dico che ti avrò
ti avrò
Ti avrò perché di certo
ti conoscevo già
ti avrò perché mi devo raccontare
Ti avrò perché non fermo
la mia curiosità
e voglio un posto dentro alla memoria
voglio un posto dentro te
Non mi resistere, non esitare
che non abbiamo tempo
non lasciare consumare il momento
Se domani ci regalerà una fotografia
non lasciarla scolorire
non buttarla via
Ti avrò perché sto male
se non ti sento mia
ti avrò perché non posso più aspettare
Ti avrò perché in futuro
io ti ritroverò
Ti avrò perché nel libro della vita mia
c'è scritto che ti avrò
Auteur : CalimeroCalimeri
Tags: Enrico Ruggeri Ti Avrò
| | Ti avrò - Enrico Ruggeri - 288 sec
.. pensieri..
Auteur : cross1951
Tags: musica internazionale
| | AVRO - Ad Visser, Eind Leader, Klok (19850817) - 57 sec
AVRO - Ad Visser, Eind Leader, Klok (19850817)
http://videoenaudio.gouweloos.com
Auteur : videoenaudio
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| | Avro Vulcan Bomber XH558 Lift-Off after £6m Refit. SKY NEWS - 146 sec
Vulcan bomber xh558 take off covered by SKY NEWS.
Message from Robert Pleming, Chief Executive VTST, 18th April 2008
The middle of April saw the safe completion of two further test flights, and the Compass Swing at RAF Cottesmore. Some snags were encountered, but that is the point of test flying -- to discover problems!
Some of these snags were put right in between the two test flights, but the curtailment of the second flight because the starboard landing gear bay door would not close means that there will be at least one more test flight.
We expect that this further flight will happen before the end of April, and therefore don't expect there to be any major impact on our plans to appear at airshows early in the summer.
The media coverage of the test flights, especially on the BBC, has been huge, and significant confirmation of the continuing interest by the public at large in the Vulcan.
Following the completion of the test flights, there will be an interlude of about a month, during which Marshall Aerospace and the CAA will be completing the final reviews and paperwork leading to the grant of the Permit to Fly.
We will then be able to fly again, this time to practice how we will bring XH558 to airshows. The final step is to fly our airshow sequence in front of a CAA Display Examiner, who, if satisfied with its safety, will issue a Display Authorisation.
We remain reliant on our supporters for the fund-raising momentum that will take us to the airshow season. We must keep it up -- and I am pleased to let you that because of the test flights, so far the momentum has not dropped. We need to find at least £50,000 cash every month until we have returned to the airshow circuit .
Auteur : eddiesteele
Tags: vulcan bomber XH558 avro cold war nuclear bomb superpower aviation jets
| | Avro Vulcan - A Tribute - 265 sec
A tribute to the legendary Vulcan bomber...
Auteur : ViddyKJB
Tags: vulcan victor valiant bombers atomic tsr2 tsr-2 tsr.2 airplane
| | AVRO Arrow Tam's Memorial Arrow Role Out - 210 sec
a short video of the AVRO Arrow unveiled at the Toronto Aerospace Museum on Oct. 8, 2006. It was eight years in the making
Auteur : beaverstudioex
Tags:AVRO AVRoe Arrow Replica role out CF CF-105 Deifenbaker Cold War
| | Avro Vulcan XH558 climbs skyward on full throttle - 61 sec
Vulcan XH558 sweeps in along the crowd line with it's landing gear extended before the pilot applies full throttle to those four magnificent Rolls Royce Olympus engines and climbs away with that stunning, crackling roar - pure delight!
Auteur : pookleburger
Tags: avro vulcan raf waddington 2008 reheat
| | Crossair Avro RJ100 - 115 sec
HB-IYW
Auteur : iur7
Tags:Planespotting
| | Festival Classique - Ralph Rousseau Meulenbroeks - AVRO - 426 sec
Ralph Meulenbroeks speelt een instrument dat bijna niemand meer kent. Over de viola da gamba en de overeenkomst tussen hardrock en klassieke muziek.
gemaakt door Daniël Brugge en Julian Willemsen
Auteur : dbrugge
Tags:Daniël brugge julian Willemsen festival Classique klassiek klassieke muziek classic classical music avro viola da gamba
| | Avro Vulcan XH558 Test Flight 4 - May 6th 2008 - 244 sec
http://www.vulcantothesky.com
Test Flight 4, from Bruntingthorpe to RAF Coningsby, filmed by the wife of pilot Squadron Leader David Thomas. Co-pilot was Iain Young (Marshall Aerospace Test Pilot) AEO was Squadron Leader Barry Masefield, with Squadron Leader Andy Marson as an additional forth crew member.
Even the best have to deal with cross-winds on landing!
Avro Vulcan XH558 is a national heritage asset - she belongs to everyone in the UK. Please help to keep YOUR aeroplane flying for years to come!
Auteur : saracenman
Tags: Avro Vulcan XH558 aeroplane airplane plane fly flying flight RAF aircraft bomber bomb pilot cold war jet land
| | Avro Vulcan XH558 Returns to the skys at RAF Waddington - 123 sec
The mighty roar of those four Olympus engines is heard once again in the skys over RAF Waddington as Avro Vulcan XH558 powers skyward at the 2008 airshow
Auteur : pookleburger
Tags: avro.vulcan xh558 raf waddington 2008 airshow return to the skys
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