Roy Chadwick and four men on steps by door of aircraft

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Title

Roy Chadwick and four men on steps by door of aircraft

Description

Four men on steps, two wearing white flying suits and two in coats. A further man wearing white flying suit stands at the bottom of the steps. Steps with Avro logo stand against the rear cabin door of an Avro Tudor. On the reverse 'Avro News Service 11.3.46, Issued by A.V. Roe & Co Ltd Manchester. Photo shows leading personalities snapped yesterday after the successful 1st flight of Great Britain's newest and largest airline. On the staircase left to right: Captain J Orrell, 2nd Pilot; Mr Roy Chadwick, Director and Chief Designer; Mr Bowers, Flight Engineer; Mr C E Fielding, Director of Production, and in front Mr S A Thorn, Chief Test Pilot. "I am very pleased with the way she performed" said Mr Chadwick after the flight. Pencil note Tudor II prototype 10 March 46'.

Date

1946-03-11

Temporal Coverage

Coverage

Type

Format

One b/w photograph

Publisher

Rights

This content is property of Delphine S Stevens who has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0) permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.

Identifier

PChadwickR19040058, PChadwickR19040128

Citation

“Roy Chadwick and four men on steps by door of aircraft,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/24285.

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