Avro continued working on his visions, and the Avro Vulcan bomber later became the most advanced bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1984. Primarily, Vulcan was intended as a high ...

The Avro Shackleton – a cousin of the iconic Lancaster bomber – was used to track Soviet submarines in UK waters, and to aid in search and rescue operations, from the 1950s to the early 1990s.