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RAF Ringway, Manchester, England • January 9, 1941 On this date in 1941 a prototype 4-engine heavy bomber took off from RAF Ring­way in the English county of Cheshire on its maiden flight. Designed by Avro—an ini­tial­ism of the com­pany’s founder Alliott Verdon-Roe—the best-known British bomber of World War II was named after the his­toric county of…