"Avro Atlantic" is Britain's New Bid For World Air Supremacy. Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (right) and Sir Roy H. Dobson, head of A.V. Roe and Company (Centre), and Mr. Stuart Davies, Chief Designer of A.V. Roe, looking at a large-scale model of the world's fist four-jet delta transport, the "Avro Atlantic", details of which have just been released. The plane can cross the Atnaltic non-stop between London and New York in five to seven hours, cruising at over 600 miles an hour at 40,000-feet, carrying between 76 and 131 passengers. June 11, 1953. (Photo by United Press Photo).