The story of the Lancaster actually begins with the downfall of an earlier Avro aircraft that failed to live up to the high expectations that birthed it. Even in aviation circles, the Avro Manchester ...

Tony Blackman, who has died aged 96, was an RAF fighter pilot who later joined Avro, where he tested over 100 of the delta-wing Vulcan bombers and rose to be chief test pilot. He was invited to join ...

The extension to the museum, which has been approved by Stockport Council, is expected to cost more than £10m and a fundraising campaign is set to be launched later this year. Aviation pioneer Alliott ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In some sense, the Arrow would have been a Foxbat before the Foxbat; a super high-performance interceptor with some glaring flaws as an air superiority fighter.

Military aviation history is crowded with fighters that never made it past prototypes or limited test fleets, yet still ...

The Avro Canada CF-105 “Arrow” was one of the best Cold War fighters you probably never heard of. Was it the ace Canada never played against the Soviet Union? The airplane’s manufacturer raced onto ...

On February 20, 1959, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s government cancelled the Arrow and the Iroquois engine program. That ...