The Rolls Royce Avon was a series of axial-flow jet engines developed in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. They were used as the power plant for several British military aircraft, such as the English Electric Lightning, Canberra, and the Hawker Hunter aircraft. The most powerful one was the Mk.302, which was capable of generating 17,000 pounds of re-heated thrust.
You must remember that an axial-flow engine is fitted with an axial compressor, which pressurizes gases continuously. Here, the gas flows axially; in other words, parallel to the axis of rotation. The Rolls Royce Avon Mk 302 had a 15-stage compressor and a 2-stage turbine, with each one of the stages being a circular row of blades that spin around at great speed on a rotor spool within the stator to pressurize the gases or air and feed a cannular combustion chamber.
Below, a Rolls Royce Avon Mk 210 series engine, which was installed in the English Electric Lightning F.3 version.
The Mk 302 jet engine, that powered the F.6 and other versions.
