LetLetLet ~ Warplanes

Let Let Let - Warplanes => Miscellaneous Subjects => Topic started by: No.1 on September 01, 2021, 06:08:43 PM

Title: Avro 706 Ashton
Post by: No.1 on September 01, 2021, 06:08:43 PM
The first jet airliner was the Viking Nene, converted from the piston-engined Vickers VC. 1 Viking. It was a purely experimental aircraft. The designers of A.V. Roe & Company decided to go the same way. Based on the piston-powered Avro Tudor, they designed the Avro Tudor 9 jet airliner, later renamed the Avro 706 Ashton. September 1, 1950-the first flight of the experimental Avro 706 Ashton passenger aircraft.

Ashton was an all-metal low-wing aircraft with a retractable landing gear. 4 × Rolls-Royce Nene 6 engines with a thrust of 22 kN were installed in the underwing engine nacelles. The maximum speed is 707 km / h, the flight range is 2776 km.

6 Avro 706 Ashton aircraft of various modifications were built. They were never considered for mass production and were used exclusively for research-engines, radars, bomb sights, etc.
Title: Re: Avro 706 Ashton
Post by: modellius on September 06, 2021, 04:36:53 PM
Great photos !
Title: Re: Avro 706 Ashton
Post by: No.1 on September 06, 2021, 04:50:18 PM
:)) ;)