Roy Chadwick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roy Chadwick

Aircraft designer

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1893

Place of Birth: Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Aug-1947

Profession: engineer, aerospace engineer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRSA, FRAeS (30 April 1893 – 23 August 1947) was an aircraft design engineer for the Avro Company.
Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth, Widnes, the son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the chief designer for Avro 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 Shackleton.
His Avro Yorks carried one third of the entire British tonnage during the Berlin Airlift.