AVRO Aircraft Sound Recordings

These AVRO Aircraft sound recordings span a history of over 70 years. Avro manufactured many landmark designs including the Avro 504, AVRO Tutor, AVRO Anson and the Avro Lancaster. The AVRO Lancaster was one of the pre-eminent bombers during the Second World War and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War. Recordings here of the AVRO Lancaster, AVRO Tutor, AVRO Anson, AVRO 504k and others.

AVRO Lancaster Sound Recordings

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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight AVRO Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster really needs no introduction. It was a British Rolls-Royce Merlin powered four-engine Second World War heavy bomber made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the RCAF and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within RAF Bomber Command and became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers (and I hear from veteran crew of other types, most dominating in peoples minds). Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams.

These recordings are all of the BBMF's Lancaster PA474 which is one of only two Lancasters remaining in airworthy condition out of the 7377 that were built – the other being in Canada. PA474 was built in Chester in mid-1945.

BBMF AVRO Lancaster, complete display recorded July 2011

BBMF AVRO Lancaster, complete display recorded July 2011 at Old Warden.

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AVRO Lancaster NX611 Just Jane, Start Up

AVRO Lancaster NX611 "Just Jane" start up and taxi by. Recorded at the Lincolnshire Aviation Museum on 17th August 2011.

 

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AVRO Lancaster NX611 Just Jane, to full power

AVRO Lancaster NX611 "Just Jane" taxi by and engine run to full power on all 4 Merlins. Recorded at the Lincolnshire Aviation Museum on 17th August 2011.

 

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AVRO Lancaster Sound Recording 2

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's AVRO Lancaster recorded during a solo display at Old Warden.

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AVRO Lancaster Sound Recording 3

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's AVRO Lancaster recorded during a solo display at Old Warden, June 2007.

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AVRO Tutor

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The Shuttleworth Collections AVRO Tutor

An Armstrong Siddeley radial engined biplane, A.V. Roe's Type 621 Tutor was a two-seat British from the interwar period. Simple but rugged, an trainer that was used by the Royal Air Force as well as many other air arms worldwide.

 

Designed by Roy Chadwick as an Avro private venture metal replacement for the Avro 504, it was conceived as a light initial pilot trainer. The biplane design featured heavily staggered equal span, single-bay wings; the construction was based on steel tubing (with some wooden components in the wing ribs) with doped linen covering. A conventional, fixed divided main undercarriage with tail skid was used in all but the latest aircraft, which had a tail wheel.

Powered by either by a 155 hp (116 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose or Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV (180 hp/130 kW) or IVC (240 hp/179 kW) engine. Later Lynx-powered models had the engine enclosed in a Townend ring cowling. The Mongoose powered version was called the 621 Trainer and the more numerous Lynx engined aircraft the Tutor. The Tutor also differed by having a more rounded rudder.

AVRO Tutor, Old Warden

The Shuttleworth Collection's AVRO Tutor recorded at Old Warden. Powered by a 155 hp (116 kW) Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose radial engine. This is a recording of the only flying example to be found today.

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AVRO Tutor, 4th July 2010

The Shuttleworth Collection's AVRO Tutor, recorded 4th July 2010, Old Warden

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AVRO Anson

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AVRO XIX / AVRO AnsonThe Avro Anson was an Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah IX radial engined British twin-engine, multi-role aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force, Fleet Air Arm and numerous other air forces during the Second World War and afterwards, originally designed for maritime reconnaissance. It was soon rendered obsolete but rescued from obscurity as a multi-engine air crew trainer.

AVRO Anson Taxi

Recording of the AVRO XIX operated from The Shuttleworth Collection.

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AVRO XIX in display, 4th June 2010. Recording 1.

Recording of the AVRO XIX operated from The Shuttleworth Collection.

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AVRO XIX in display, 4th June 2010. Recording 2.

Recording of the AVRO XIX operated from The Shuttleworth Collection.

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AVRO XIX, October 2011

AVRO XIX recorded 2nd October 2011 at Old Warden.

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AVRO 504k Aircraft Sound Recordings

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AVRO 504kThe Avro 504 was a World War I biplane aircraft made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during the War totalled 8,970 and continued for almost 20 years, making it the most-produced aircraft of any kind that served in World War I, in any military capacity, during that conflict. Over 10,000 would be built from 1913 to the time production ended in 1932. 

The AVRO 504k was typically powered by a single Le Rhône Rotary engine, rated at 110 hp.

AVRO 504K, Aircraft Sound Recording 1

Recording of the Shuttleworth Collection's AVRO 504k.

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