Avro Atlantic

The Avro Atlantic, also designated Avro 722, was a civil airliner proposed by A.V. Roe and Company in the early 1950s as a transport derived from its Vulcan delta-wing bomber. It grew out of a 1952 British Ministry of Supply requirement for an aircraft usable in both military and long-range civil roles. Avro described a machine of about 100 tons carrying a flight crew of five and between 76 and 113 passengers, seated two abreast beside a single central aisle, at speeds above Mach 0.9, with Bristol Olympus or Rolls-Royce Conway engines under consideration. Avro wanted an initial order of at least 25 aircraft before it would start production, no such orders came, the Vickers V-1000 won the contest, and the Atlantic was never built.