AVRO LANCASTER HEAVY BOMBER MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT
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…