Editing Avro (section)

===Postwar developments===
[[File:Avro Vulcan Bomber RAF.JPEG|thumb|250px|[[Avro Vulcan]]]]
[[File:Blue Steel missile.png|thumb|250px|[[Blue Steel missile]]]]
The civilian [[Avro Lancastrian|Lancastrian]] and maritime reconnaissance [[Avro Shackleton|Shackleton]] were derived from the successful Lancaster design. The [[Avro Tudor|Tudor]] was a pressurised but problematic post-war Avro airliner which faced strong competition from designs by [[Bristol Aeroplane Company|Bristol]], [[Bombardier Aerospace|Canadair]], [[Douglas Aircraft Company|Douglas]], [[Handley Page Aircraft Company|Handley Page]], and [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]]. With the same wings and engines as the Lincoln, it achieved only a short (34 completed) production run following a first flight in June 1945 and the cancellation of an order from [[BOAC]]. The older [[Avro York]] was somewhat more successful in both the RAF and in commercial service, being distinguished by a fuselage square in cross-section. Both Tudors and Yorks played an important humanitarian part in the [[Berlin Airlift]].

The postwar [[Avro Vulcan|Vulcan]] [[bomber]], originally designed as a nuclear-strike aircraft, was used to maintain the British nuclear deterrent, armed with the [[Blue Steel missile|Avro Blue Steel]] stand-off nuclear bomb. The [[Avro Vulcan|Vulcan]] saw service as a conventional bomber during the British campaign to recapture the [[Falkland Islands]] in 1982. Several Vulcans are prized as museum exhibits.

A twin turboprop [[airliner]], the [[Avro 748]], was developed during the 1950s and sold widely to airlines and governments across the globe, powered by two [[Rolls-Royce Dart]] engines. The RAF bought 6 for use by the [[No. 32 Squadron RAF|Queen's Flight]] and a variant with a rear-loading ramp and a "kneeling" main undercarriage was sold to the RAF (31 aircraft) as the [[Hawker Siddeley Andover|Andover]].