Avro 730

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The Avro 730 was a planned [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] for the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

It was cancelled in 1957 along with other development on manned aircraft as part of the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

History

During the early [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], the RAF bomber fleet of [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] was given the nuclear deterrent role.

For strategic reconnaissance both pre- and post-bombing, an [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], OR.330, for an aircraft was identified and a [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] was drawn up in 1954 for an aircraft that could enter the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] while avoiding their air defenses.


The aircraft envisaged would have to be capable of maintaining Mach 2.5 at 60,000 ft (18,300 m), with the ability to reach Mach 3, and operate at a maximum range of 5,754 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] (9,260 km).

There were submissions from the major UK aircraft manufacturers: the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], English
Electric P.10, Avro Type 730 and a [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] entry.

All were futuristic [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] or needle shapes in appearance employing several engines, 12 on the HP.100, 16 mounted horizontally at the rear of the Vickers.

The English Electric design used [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

Avro were given a contract in 1955 to develop their submission aircraft as the Type 730.

As an aid to development, the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] research aircraft was built to test the wing shape and later effects of prolonged [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] flight on metal.

The first prototype was planned to fly in 1959.

The first prototype was being built when the minister, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], announced the decision to cancel its development.

The Bristol 188 project continued though.

Design

The initial Avro 730 was based around a long and thin fuselage with a high [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], a requirement for sustained
high-speed flight.

A small tapered almost-rectangular wing was mounted just rear of the midpoint of the fuselage.

Four Armstrong-Siddeley P.156 engines were carried, two each mounted over-under in pods at the extreme tips of the wings.

No conventional canopy was fitted in order to maintain the fineness ratio, instead the cockpit featured only two small windows facing to the side, and used a retractable periscope for forward viewing during take-off and landing.

A crew of three would be carried: pilot, navigator and radar operator.

This initial version was intended strictly for the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] role, using its "Red Drover" sideways-looking radar to find targets for attack by the V-bomber force that would follow.

As development progressed it became clear that the radar would not need as big an antenna as initially believed, freeing up considerable internal room.

In response, the RAF started concentrating on the secondary bombing role carrying both the radar and also including
a long bomb bay for either a weapon or additional fuel.

A high-speed bomber requirement was also being studied at the time, OR.336, so the two projects were combined into the new RB.156 requirement.

This led to a fairly major redesign.

Although the new version looked much like the original, it was larger overall and featured a new wing planform.

In order to increase wing area extra "winglettes" were added outside of the engine pods and the entire planform was re-shaped to be more of a classic [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

The wing inside the engine pods, about ⅔ of the overall span, was swept at about 45°, the smaller area outside was more highly swept at about 60°.

The forward sweep on the trailing edge was removed.

The engine pods were now specified to carry four Armstrong-Siddeley P.176 engines each, for a total of eight.

The pods were circular at the front and mounted a single large [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], and grew progressively more "square" to the rear, where they ended flush with the rear of the wing.

The rest of the layout was generally the same as the earlier version, with the rectangular canards, "hidden" cockpit and large cropped-delta vertical fin at the extreme rear.

The new version also allowed for a reduction in crew to two, although the reasons for this are not clear considering it still carried the same equipment, and potentially more.

The bomb bay was narrow but very long at 50 ft (15 m), and was intended to be armed with a nuclear-tipped stand-off missile.

A suitable warhead started development as Blue Rosette.

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