Avro 560
The Avro 560 was a relatively small one-seater airplane of the British manufacturer Avro, by Alliott Verdon Roe company director personally for an endurance event for small planes, the. During the period from 8 to 13 October 1923 was held in Lympne, developed.
History
Avro chief designer Roy Chadwick created for the same event the Avro 558 biplane Unlike Chadwick's design Roes Avro 560 was designed as a monoplane. The consistently held easily design was of an air-cooled Blackburn Tomtit engine - a V -Twin - driven.
Originally Roe had planned to equip the machine in competition depending on the task with two different length wings, but the competition rules prohibited this. After the competition, the machine has been upgraded and flown by Avro Chief Test Pilot Bert Hinkler with the smaller areas.
Since the British Air Ministry was looking for a small and inexpensive education and liaison aircraft, one equipped the 560 with Avro with a further developed Tomtit engine and a chassis (originally used in the first copy of the Avro 558 ) and set the machine to the Ministry available for testing. After these tests, the RAF decided, however, for the competitor's product de Havilland Hummingbird, and so it remained the only built copy of the Avro 560
With the construction of a further slight monoplane with the type designation Avro 549 was certainly commenced, the aircraft was never completed.
Construction
The Avro 560 was a monoplane with a fabric-covered wooden trunk, also the continuous wing design with ailerons was covered with fabric. The chassis consisted of two light wooden wheels with rubber shock absorbers and a rigid tail skid.