What made Avro's Roy Chadwick such a design genius?

It is now 75 years since British aviation lost one of its greatest names. The death of Avro chief designer Roy Chadwick in the crash of the prototype Tudor II robbed the industry of a true visionary, whose creations spanned the eras from the pioneers to the jet bomber age

Roy Chadwick on the occasion of receiving an honorary associateship from the Manchester College of Technology in November 1946.
Roy Chadwick on the occasion of receiving an honorary associateship from the Manchester College of Technology in November 1946. BAE SYSTEMS

“Altogether I have been responsible for the design of over 30 types of aeroplane… These types include landplanes, seaplanes and shipborne planes, monoplanes, biplanes and triplanes, military machines and civil machines. It was all very interesting.”

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