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  • Temporal Coverage is exactly "1947-08-23"

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Side view of an Avro Tudor registration G-AGSU flying over open countryside. Submitted with information 'Avro Tudor G-AGSU, Ministry of Supply. This is the Avro Tudor that crashed on 23 August 1947 near Woodford airfield killing chief designer for…

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Biography of Squadron Leader David James Baikie Wilson, DSO, DFC and Bar (1917 - 1947). He flew operations as a pilot with 214, 196 and 617 Squadrons before becoming Head of Aerodynamic Development and Testing, and Test-Pilot at A V Roe & Co Ltd.…

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On 23 August 1947 near Adlington, death of Roy Chadwick in aircraft crash.

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Essay by Rosemary Lapham with memories of her father and recalling the day she learns he will not come back. She writes of his brilliance and hard work as an aircraft designer and tells that he invited her to come to the airfield but she declined as…

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Rosemary Lapham is the daughter of Roy Chadwick CBE, the designer of the Manchester and Lancaster aircraft. She tells her father’s story. Her father was born in 1893 and, when he left school at the age of 14, he became a draughtsman at Westinghouse…

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