Swallow name origin
Hi Roy
The Swallow was intended to be called Sparrow but when Slingsbys
general manager John Reussner was flying the prototype at low level along the hill at Sutton Bank for Fred Slingsby to take photographs he finished up suspended in the telephone wires !
This brought forth the comment from Fred Slingsby:
'It's joined the Swallows ready for migration' and the name stuck !
The damaged aircraft was aquired and repaired by John Reussner with an extra metre added to each wing root and an extended rear fuselage.
In this form it was named 'Swift'
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