"Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, Hon. FRAeS, FIAS (26 April 1877 \u2013 4 January 1958) 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\u201308 with a full size aeroplane at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey, and became the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later with a triplane on Walthamstow Marshes."@en . "1958-01-04Z"^^ . "1877-04-26Z"^^ . . "Sir Alliott Verdon Roe"@en . . "Verdon-Roe, Alliott"@en . "1877Z"^^ . . "1958Z"^^ . "English aviation pioneer" . . . . . "Roe, Alliott Verdon"@en .