Avro Ashton (Jet Engine Testbeds) ~ 1st Flight 1 September 1950

Cover depicting various aircraft that were testbeds for jet engines such as Avro Ashton Mk3 with Olympus Testbed, Vickers VC10 as Rolls Royce RB211 testbed, Armstrong Siddeley Sapphires in Avro Lancastrian 2, Vickers Viscount as Rolls Royce Tay Testbed, Metrovick F2/4 Beryl installed in Avro Lancaster Tail, Whittle W2B installed in Vickers Wellington Tail and the Avro Vulcan as Bristol olympus testbed for Concorde.
Cover bears 45p Millenium Mile End stamp which is cancelled with 50th Anniversary of the Avro Ashton 1st September Woodford Stockport.
Cover has been signed by Mike Collett who flew the cover in the an Avro Anson of the Air Atlantique Historic flight from Baginton Airport Coventry after winter maintenance and as preparations were made for the aircraft's 2001 airshow season

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