Roy Ewans
Roy Ewan (* 21st December 1917 in Torquay , Devon , England , † 22 January 2012 in Virginia Water , Surrey ) was a British aircraft engineer , who to, among other things Avro Vulcan - bomber designed and one of the major aircraft developers of the post-war period in Britain was.
Life
After Ewans had attended St Paul's School in London with financial support through a scholarship , he completed a degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London , which he graduated with honors. He subsequently completed a postgraduate studies from specialty aircraft and was during the Second World War, an engineer with the aerospace company Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) in Farnborough busy.
After D-Day , the beginning of the Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944 he was sent to France dispatched to the aircraft program of the German Air Force to evaluate the hitherto occupied France. After the subsequent liberation of Belgium and the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945, it was used in Germany, where it was assigned to the 6th Army Group of the US Army .
After completing this activity, he started at the Blackburn Aircraft Company in 1946 as head of the aerodynamics department; in October 1949 he moved to the aircraft manufacturer AV Roe and Company as chief aerodynamicist , where he worked until 1961. In 1955 he succeeded Stuart Davies as the company's new chief developer. He was best known for the design of the Avro Vulcan bomber, which was developed for nuclear deterrent missions, had a radical design and was the largest aircraft with delta wings built to date . 136 Avro Vulcan bombers were built for the RAF and were in service from 1956 to 1984. However, the bomber was only used once during its service, and that was when it was used to drop conventional weapons during the Falklands War in 1982 .
In 1958 he designed the Avro 748 , a short-haul turboprop - airliner , which in 1960 had its commissioning.
After Ewans was an engineer at the aircraft manufacturer British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) in Weybridge between 1961 and 1967 , he left Great Britain, like several other engineers and scientists, and became an engineer at the US aircraft manufacturer Fairchild Hiller in San Antonio .
After retiring , he returned to Great Britain in 1982 and settled in St Mawes in Cornwall with his wife, mathematician Enid Ewans . After suffering a stroke in 1999, he lived in a nursing home in Virginia Water, Surrey with his wife, who had Alzheimer's disease and who died in 2005 .
Web links
- Roy Ewan's Obituary . In: The Guardian of February 13, 2012
- Roy Ewans In: The Telegraph, March 13, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Avro's new Chief Designer in FlightGlobal, July 8, 1955
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ewans, Roy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British aircraft engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torquay , Devon , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 2012 |
| Place of death | Virginia Water , Surrey |