Avro News - Vol 3 No 16
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Avro News - Vol 3 No 16Entry/Object ID
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Arrow Rolls Out Today. Names and topics include FT Smye writes the opening remarks. Harry Wilby writes the story on how the plane went from proposal to product in 4 years, and describes the evolution of design and all the testing that came with it. Ron Drake writes the story about tooling and how the manufacturing of components was done. Fred Lawrence writes about the low manhours involved, how the different departments worked together to achieve the end result. Joe King writes about quality control and inspection. Roy Linegar wrote about selling new designs, detailing work of the Technical Writing, Illustrating, Contracts Administration, Publications, Service, Photographic, Parts groups of the Sales and Service Department. Don Rogers wrote about Test Pilot Aids, such as the simulator, ergonomics of the cockpit, prior to first flight.Category
Periodical - Magazine