Urban Design Compendium

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V bombers Silhouettes of an early Avro concept and the cancelled Avro The origin of the Vulcan and the other V bombers is linked with early British atomic weapon programme and nuclear deterrent policies. This anticipated a government decision in January to authorise research and development work on atomic weapons, the U. Atomic Energy Act of McMahon Act having prohibited exporting atomic knowledge, even to countries that had collaborated on the Manhattan Project.

In addition to a “special” i. It was obvious to the design team that conventional aircraft could not satisfy the specification; knowing little about high-speed flight and unable to glean much from the Royal Aircraft Establishment or the US, they investigated German Second World War swept wing research. Realising that swept wings increase longitudinal stability, the team deleted the tail empennage and the supporting fuselage , it thus became a swept-back flying wing with only a rudimentary forward fuselage and a fin vertical stabilizer at each wingtip.

Outboard of the engines were two bomb-bays. The wingtip fins gave way to a single fin on the aircraft’s centreline.