Darrah, Dawson E. Red

Name/Title

Darrah, Dawson E. "Red"

Entry/Object ID

4788

Description

Avro employee. Design engineer working on the Arrow and the only engineer known to have flown in the Arrow. On Feb 19, 1959 he flew in RL-203 to check the fly-by-wire systems with "Spud" Potocki at the controls. The Arrow program was cancelled the next day. Occupation on a voter's list (found via Ancestry.ca) in York-Scarborough, Ontario stated as an A. V. Roe employee

Category

Biography