This January marks the 85th anniversary of a milestone in British aviation history: the maiden flight of the Avro Lancaster prototype. On January 9, 1941, the aircraft-then known as the Avro 683-made ...

The Avro Vulcan XH558, a British bomber with a beautiful delta profile and an unmistakable howling sound, has landed for the last time, concluding its “Farewell to Flight” season. The charitable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blackman, left, talking to the chief test pilot at the time, Jimmy Harrison, before displaying the Vulcan at Farnborough in 1958 ...

The third BAE Systems Avro RJX will join the flight test programme next month, performing functional flying. The four Honeywell AS977 engines have recently been installed. The aircraft - an RJX-100 - ...

BAE Systems is out to tempt cost-conscious business jet buyers at EBACE by exhibiting for the first time its BAe 146/Avro RJ-based Avro Business Jet (ABJ). The aircraft on show (static park bay 20) ...

The Presidential Flight of Abu Dhabi has taken delivery of a second Avro Business Jet from BAE Systems - a late model Avro RJ100 which joins the operator's existing VIP RJ70. The bigger RJ100 has been ...

BAE Systems is displaying an Avro Business Jet (ABJ) for the first time at the Dubai Air Show - the aircraft type has been ordered by the Abu Dhabi royal flight as a presidential aircraft. The ABJ on ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately the Avro was done in by the Harrier family of jump jets, which were capable of VTOL operations, and could exceed Mach 1 speed. The other factor that killed ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ultimately the Avro was done in by the Harrier family of jump jets, which were capable of VTOL operations, and could exceed Mach 1 speed. The other factor that killed ...