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3 unusual facts about Roy Chaplin


Roy Chaplin

Ralph Hooper recalled during an interview with Thomas Lean in 2010 that "Sydney Camm used to reduce his secretaries to tears from time to time and Roy Chaplin who was his number two used to come in and cheer them up again".

The 1982 Falklands conflict might not have been won by Britain but for the Harrier, in the opinion of Admiral of the fleet Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin.

In 1965, Harold Wilson’s government realized that the country could afford neither of these aircraft, and abruptly cancelled them.



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