Matthews, Fred

Name/Title

Matthews, Fred

Entry/Object ID

4735

Description

Avro engineer who graduated from U of T 1948. Experimental Flight Test Engineer who took a photo of the Avro Jetliner at Hughes Airport, Culver City, California 1952. Listed as working in Flight Test in 1956 as a Flight Test Engineer and as Supervisor of flight test engineering working on the Arrow 1958. Went to NASA - Backup Flight Director Gemini and Apollo after leaving Avro sometime after Black Friday. Note - "The Avro Organization" (object 2627) has his last name recorded as Mathews (one "t") but this is the same person.

Category

Biography