Alliott Verdon Roe
British businessman
Died when: 80 years 253 days (968 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, Hon.FRAeS, FIAS (26 April 1877 – 4 January 1958) was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company.
After experimenting with model aeroplanes, he made flight trials in 1907–1908 with a full-size aeroplane at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey, and became the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later, with a triplane, on the Walthamstow Marshes.
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