Avro Vulcan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Avro 698 Vulcan, Vulcan bomber, Hawker Siddeley Vulcan, Vulcan aircraft
1952 strategic bomber family
Key facts
- Type
- Strategic bomber
- National origin
- United Kingdom
- Manufacturer
- Avro , Hawker Siddeley Aviation
- Status
- Retired
- Primary user
- Royal Air Force
- Number built
- 136 (including prototypes)
- Manufactured
- 1956–1965
- Introduction date
- September 1956
- First flight
- 30 August 1952
- Retired
- March 1984 (Royal Air Force) , October 2015 (XH558)
- Developed into
- Avro Atlantic (proposed)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Vulcans in anti-flash white in 1957
The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe and Company (Avro) designed the Vulcan in response to Specification B.35/46. Of the three V bombers produced, the Vulcan was considered the most technically advanced, and therefore the riskiest option. Several reduced-scale aircraft, designated Avro 707s, were produced to test and refine the delta-wing design principles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avro Vulcan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.