Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, Hon. FRAeS, FIAS was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company. After experimenting with model aeroplanes, he made flight trials in 1907–1908 with a full-size biplane at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey, and officially became the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later, with a triplane, on the Walthamstow Marshes.
- Occupation
- military flight engineer, engineer, entrepreneur, aircraft pilot
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- April 26, 1877
- Died
- January 4, 1958
