Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRSA, FRAeS was an aircraft design engineer for the Avro Company.
11 Facts About Roy Chadwick
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Roy Chadwick is famous in particular for designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up Avro Lincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V-bomber.
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Roy Chadwick married Mary Gomersall in 1921 and had two daughters.
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Roy Chadwick attended St Clements Church School in Urmston, then studied at night school from 1907 to 1911 at the Manchester Municipal College of Technology whilst training as a draughtsman at the British Westinghouse Electrical Company in Trafford Park under George Edwin Bailey of Metropolitan-Vickers.
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Roe, Roy Chadwick drafted the Avro D, a two-seater tractor biplane, the Avro E, which was converted to a floatplane, and in 1912, the Avro F, the world's first monoplane and enclosed-cabin machine.
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Roy Chadwick then worked on the draughtsmanship for the Avro 500,501 and 503, which led to Avro's World War I light bomber and trainer, the Avro 504.
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In 1915 at age 22, Roy Chadwick designed the Avro Pike, a twin-engined pusher biplane bomber.
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Roy Chadwick designed the Avro Baby and in 1920, the Avro Aldershot, the world's largest single-engined bomber and variants of the Aldershot, the Avro Ava and the Avro Andover.
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Roy Chadwick died on 23 August 1947 in a crash during the takeoff of the prototype Avro Tudor 2 G-AGSU from Woodford Aerodrome, in the vicinity of Shirfold Farm.
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Roy Chadwick's bust is displayed at the RAF Club in London, among other notable designers, and at the Chadwick Center at the International Bomber Command Center in Lincoln.
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Roy Chadwick is commemorated by a blue plaque on the surviving office building of the Avro factory at Greengate.