Military Aviation History on MSN9d
The Avro707s and the mighty Vulcan
In the late 1940s Britain, the delta wing and crescent wing were under serious scrutiny for the next generation of bombers.
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 ...
Last October, United Launch Alliance started stacking its third Vulcan rocket on a mobile launch platform in Florida in preparation for a mission for the US Space Force by the end of the year.