During the Cold War, the UK required long-range, high-altitude bombers to deliver nuclear payloads, and that's when A.V Roe & Company (Avro) came up with Avro Vulcan. This development was made due ...

Avro itself went down shortly after, and Montebruno says there's an argument to be made the ripple effects of the project's cancellation impacted as many as 30,000 workers in various related fields.

The airline would use the Avro Lancastrian both to ferry passengers (as in this 1945 scene) and to carry engines, using a specially designed pod slung underneath the fuselage. The Avro Lancastrian ...