Avro Round - Roy Chadwick Traditional Cache
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Avro Round - Roy Chadwick
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Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRAeS (30 April 1893 – 23 August 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth in Widnes, son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the Chief Designer for the Avro Company and was responsible for practically all of their aeroplane designs.
He is famous in particular for designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up Avro Lincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V bomber. He also converted the Lincoln into the much-used Shackleton. His Avro Yorks carried one third of the entire British tonnage during the Berlin Airlift.
He died on 23 August 1947 during a crash on take-off of the prototype Avro Tudor 2 G-AGSU from Woodford airfield, in the vicinity of Shirfold Farm. The accident was due to an error in an overnight servicing in which the aileron cables were inadvertently crossed.
The accident would have been survivable if it not for one of the many dew ponds in this vicinity.
The aircraft crash landed and slid into the pond. The sudden deceleration upon hitting the water through the occupants out of the plane seriously injuring or killing them.
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