Avro continued working on his visions, and the Avro Vulcan bomber later became the most advanced bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1984. Primarily, Vulcan was intended as a high ...

The Avro aircraft company opened its site at Woodford in Stockport 100 years ago. Workers there built some of the world’s most renowned aircraft, including the wartime Lancaster Bomber.

Lancaster Bomber veterans have visited a factory where the World War Two plane was built 80 years ago. The Avro factory in Chadderton, Greater Manchester, built up to seven bombers a day during ...