page_title: Stuart Davies (engineer)
section_title: Avro
hierarchical_section_title: Stuart Davies (engineer) / Career / Avro
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan-view silhouettes of the Avro 698 prototype and Vulcan B.1
context_page_description: Stuart Duncan Davies CBE FREng FRAeS was a British aerospace engineer who was in charge of the design of the Avro Vulcan. He was also responsible for converting the unsuccessful two-engined Avro Manchester into the four-engined Avro Lancaster.
context_section_description: Hawker Siddeley was formed in 1935, and in the group it included A.V.Roe & Company of Manchester. In January 1938 he moved to Avro, becoming assistant to the chief designer. Aged 33, he was promoted to be the company's experimental manager in April 1940. In 1940 he became responsible for converting the Manchester into the Lancaster. 7,377 Lancasters would be built in the UK and Canada, having first flown at Woodford on 8 January 1941.
  From 1944 he was in charge of the Avro York transport plane, and later worked on the Avro Lincoln.
  In 1947 he became the technical director at Avro, with responsibility for producing the Avro Vulcan (Avro 698), which first flew on 30 August 1952. He was Chief Designer from 1945 to 1955, and was succeeded by Roy Ewans. Five Avro 707 aircraft were produced before the Vulcan. They were used for experimental work on the delta wing.
  He also designed the Avro Athena advanced single-engined trainer.
  The Avro Atlantic was an early-1950s proposed 94-seat airliner version of the Vulcan, with delta wings and Olympus engines, which was never built.
caption: Change in shape of the Vulcan's wing
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