This Day in Aviation History
September 4th, 1949
First flight of the Avro 707.
 
The Avro 707 (also known as Type 707) was a British experimental aircraft built to test the tailless thick delta wing configuration chosen for the Avro 698 jet bomber, later named the Vulcan. In particular, the low-speed characteristics of such aircraft were not well known at the time. Aerodynamically, it was a ⅓-scale version of the Vulcan…..
 
Source:
Wikipedia, Avro 707: http://gstv.us/1Kut3pv
 
YouTube, Air News – The Vulcan (1953): http://gstv.us/1Kut4d9
Via British Pathé 
 
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