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.
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was a proposed civilian airliner derived from the British Avro Vulcan strategic bomber
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ultimately none of these designs would be built
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then Managing Director of A.V. Roe and Company, revealed that the company was working on a project for a 100-ton airliner based on the Vulcan
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derived from the British Avro Vulcan strategic bomber
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with a single central aisle
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was a proposed civilian airliner derived from the British Avro Vulcan strategic bomber
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