R.I.P. the Great Roy Chadwick.

Don’t remember a Hooker mentioned, but he might ave been:o 😀

G’ day mate,

I think someone did the Sir Frank Whittle thing a while back, may even have been me, can not remember jack crap at the moment:o , Cog wheels a very loose Via M.S., but it might have been ole RPSmithy not sure 😉 , but I can remember posting on a Whittle thread!:rolleyes:

ciao got eat, then crash Ooooo Rooo all

Croc’s rule :dev2:

At the risk of drifting a little off-topic, the centenries of Frank Whittle (June 1 1907) and Stanley Hooker (September 30 1907) have passed with relatively little public attention.
Whittle devised the jet engine and took out the first patents, but it was Hooker who made it into a practical means of propulsion ..not surely that I need to spell it out on this forum.

I don’t think it was so much a case of the Tudor being wrong as human fallibility that was the problem. OK, so the Tudor was a bit of a blast from the past really. More to the point, what was the problem with the Ashton?

And yet the Tudor was so wrong.

What happened?

When you read that it makes you wonder what other great things he would have had a hand in had it not been for his untimely demise. When you think that a lot of it was not his work but what he had inspired his team to come up with, after all he was head of the design team. Can’t help thinking they would not have been as good as they were without his leadership and inspiration.

And a great web site it is Vulc mate! 😎

Congrate’s to his daughter’s effort’s, she is doing his memory proud 😉

RIP to all of the Worlds great and now gone aircraft designer’s over the last 110 year’s :dev2:

Lest We forget

G’ day all again.

Here a link to a great site, and good detail on Roy’s life and early finish.

I think it has detail’s about the fatal crash near the bottom of the page..

Avro
http://homepages.manx.net/mdove/

Name all the aircraft he had hand in or imputed some idea’s.

Must crash now, did another 3 km walk today with me stick and rode a bike 2 km’s as well, ridin’s easyer!!

I am knackered, ” Gut Nacht “

Best to all Ooooo Rooooo from Oz! 😉

:dev2: CROC’S RULE!!:dev2:

The web site is looked after by Roy Chadwicks daughter, who is still very passionate about her fathers work.

You forgot Frederic Handley-Page and Volkert
Just to keep it balanced:p Cees

and Lloyd, Miles and Percival 🙂

Roger Smith.

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BTW: I hope it’s not inappropriate to ask here…but what did cause the crash of Tudor G-AGSU?

It was a miss rigging of the controls leading to reversed inputs, which caused loss of control at low altitude. Those who know say if it had been discovered at 5,000 feet and not 50′ it would have been recovered.
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David

Good Roy Chadwick site.

G’ day all again.

Here a link to a great site, and good detail on Roy’s life and early finish.

I think it has detail’s about the fatal crash near the bottom of the page..

Avro
http://homepages.manx.net/mdove/

Name all the aircraft he had hand in or imputed some idea’s.

Must crash now, did another 3 km walk today with me stick and rode a bike 2 km’s as well, ridin’s easyer!!

I am knackered, ” Gut Nacht “

Best to all Ooooo Rooooo from Oz! 😉

:dev2: CROC’S RULE!!:dev2:

Chadwick and his team certainly built some great aircraft.

Looking at he names in earlier posts one is reminded of the sheer number and quality of influential UK aircraft designers which certainly speaks well for the UK education system of the early 20th century.
It was also great that the country could support so many firms to employ them all. The RAF, RN and civil operators were spoiled for choice in the pre-war years.

BTW: I hope it’s not inappropriate to ask here…but what did cause the crash of Tudor G-AGSU?

…and crashed the Barracuda.

I agree that it is rather shameful of modern British society to forget our illustrious forbears.

Chadwick should be remembered along with many others including De Havilland, Camm, Sopwith, Carter, Folland, Fedden and Halford.

But then technology and science topics seem out of vogue for most and this is encouraging a new dark age to dawn full of religious proselytisers and new age quackery, along with the idiotic worship of the celebrity.

You forgot Frederic Handley-Page and Volkert
Just to keep it balanced:p

Cheers

Cees

Are sure?

It was generally known that you “flew” the Lanc and “drove” the Halifax.
Cees

…and crashed the Barracuda.

I agree that it is rather shameful of modern British society to forget our illustrious forbears.

Chadwick should be remembered along with many others including De Havilland, Camm, Sopwith, Carter, Folland, Fedden and Halford.

But then technology and science topics seem out of vogue for most and this is encouraging a new dark age to dawn full of religious proselytisers and new age quackery, along with the idiotic worship of the celebrity.

Roy Chadwick Commemoration Day

http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/information.cfm

It`s a real shame that the media do not do “something” in rememberance, even just say a 30 minute programme.

Sorry, but it really peeves me that such people, that were pivotal to the aviation world in the Twentieth Century do not get a look-in these days. Sure C4 could sacrifice some “Big Brother” air time surely?.

Indeed, R.I.P Mr Chadwick, and thanks for producing a solid, safe kite for our boys, which was “..like driving a bus” according to a Lanc Skipper relative of mine!

Are sure?

It was generally known that you “flew” the Lanc and “drove” the Halifax.

Cheers

Cees

Bump > On the actual day.

Well remembered. This man’s contribution to victory should not be forgotten.

Moggy

Well said Moggy, RIP Mr. Chadwick.

Bex

Bump > On the actual day.

Well remembered. This man’s contribution to victory should not be forgotten.

Moggy

Like No Other

It`s a real shame that the media do not do “something” in rememberance, even just say a 30 minute programme.

Sorry, but it really peeves me that such people, that were pivotal to the aviation world in the Twentieth Century do not get a look-in these days. Sure C4 could sacrifice some “Big Brother” air time surely?.

Indeed, R.I.P Mr Chadwick, and thanks for producing a solid, safe kite for our boys, which was “..like driving a bus” according to a Lanc Skipper relative of mine!

Something should be done!

He was a great inventor and where would we be without his work in the aircraft field? No lancasters, no vulcans,….