to a potential Mach 2, and despite the plane’s controversial cancellation, the way to Concorde was clear. On the way, Hooker visits several countries (including the US) and helps them with their engine development. One major outcome of his work introduced a generalised method of predicting and comparing aircraft engine performance under flight conditions. Bairstow was interested, and it was for this reason he recommended me for the Armourers and Braziers Fellowship.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Great insight to Rolls-Royce, Bristol Aero Engines and the period of significant engineering change. Near Fine, edges dusty slight bumping, small address label to endpaper, in clean and bright dustwrapper. Hooker was immediately appointed to the board of the new nationalised company, Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd. Ric gained the CBE for Services to Engineering in 2013 and was named European CTO of the Year in 2014.This had been instituted by the Busk family in memory of Edward Busk who was killed as a pioneer aviator. Hooker would then spend the rest of his long career involved at the cutting edge of jet engine design with both Rolls-Royce and the Bristol Aero Engine company and his engines powered all of the icons of British aircraft such as Vulcan, Concorde, TSR2 and the VTOL Harrier.

Without the property of viscosity, neither birds nor aeroplanes could fly, and winds would blow around the world undiminished for ever. I could have improved them half pissed, which generally I was at the time, because in those days you were at the pub every lunchtime and evening, driving home three sheets to the wind to give the wife one over the kitchen table dinner.However the copy I received is clearly defective, much to my immense frustration upon getting to the end of chapter 13 (Romania and China) to find the next page is halfway through chapter 12 (see page numbers in photos attached).