An Engine With A Bomber Attached To It | Avro 549 Aldershot [Aircraft Overview #75]

Today we’re taking a look at the Avro 549 Aldershot. This was Avro’s first entirely new post-war military aircraft, and it was built as a long-range, single-engine heavy bomber. Following the end of the first world war, the idea of single engine bombers had become quite popular with the British Air Ministy, and the Aldershot was one result of this thinking.
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Sources:
Jackson A.J. (1965), Avro Aircraft Since 1908.
Mason F.K. (1994), The British Bomber Since 1914
Flight Magazine, January 1927.
Aeroplane Monthly 1993-04 / O.Thetford - By day and by night /The classic inter-war RAF biplane bombers.
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