Stuart Davies (engineer)

Stuart Duncan Davies CBE FREng FRAeS (5 December 1906 – 22 January 1995) was a British aerospace engineer who was in charge of the design of the Avro Vulcan.

He worked at Vickers as a junior technical assistant from 1925 and gained an external BSc degree in Engineering at Northampton Polytechnic (now City University London) awarded by the University of London.

At Vickers he worked in the wind tunnel at Brooklands, and on the Virginia biplane bomber, converting it from a wooden to metal structure.

There he worked on the Hart and Fury biplanes; the RAF's main fighter planes in the 1930s.

The other survivor of the crash was Edward Talbot, the flight engineer, of Wayside Drive in Poynton.

[3] Roy Chadwick died of a fractured skull and pelvis, with instantaneous death, and the other two drowned; but doctors visiting the scene believed that these other two would have survived otherwise.

The wife of Chadwick needed medical attention, when told of his death in the accident.

The Avro Atlantic was an early-1950s proposed 94-seat airliner version of the Vulcan, with delta wings and Olympus engines, which was never built.