By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. The UK in the early 70's was trying to sell both the technology and the engineering of turbines to China and Hooker bought into the entire façade put out by the Chinese of a nation of happy people all working in harmony under a benign dictatorship. Ric is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute.

Since there was no escape, I decided to try a little harder, and unnoticed I put in a couple of terms’ good work. However his insight is truly unique and the perspective he was privileged too was wonderful to read. This also housed the Mathematics Department, so I did not move far, but fell under the tuition of Professor Leonard Bairstow, W. Hooker was made responsible for technical supervision of the four gas turbine divisions and was leading a Rolls-Royce effort to improve both power and fuel consumption of the engine. There was Büsemann in Germany, who went to the USA after World War II, Ackeret in Zurich, who evolved the first simple theory of the effect on the lift and drag of a wing, and there was G.From the first screech of his electric guitar upsetting musicians at a folk festival to his writing and paintings, Bob Dylan has risen to become a seminal force in American popular culture. This enabled Sydney Camm to design the Harrier which demonstrated its outstanding capabilities in the Falklands war. They were full of high spirits and fun, and, once the initial pain of the break had subsided, they took particular pleasure in giving me ‘blanket baths’ in bed.

He was employed first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent, and later at Bristol Aero Engines where he helped bring the troubled Proteus turboprop and the Olympus turbojet to market. What could have turned out to be a bit of a dry read instead turned out to be fascinating and illuminating in equal amounts. There is an oblique reference to his stay in hospital in 1982, and his book was “ assisted by Bill Gunston” (1927–2013) an eminent aviation author and historian. Then to join Rolls Royce, to deliver his outstanding work on the supercharger development for the Merlin, producing the Merlin 45 and the ultimate version the Merlin 61. I’ll admit the final pages were a bit too much for me, but for more technical readers with a better understanding of the maths/physics/engineering involved I’m sure they would have been useful/interesting.Of the many great applied mathematicians in the field of aerodynamics or fluid motion whom I have had the good fortune to know, G. Just prior to the bankruptcy, at the end of 1970, Hugh Conway (group managing director, gas turbines) agreed that Hooker should come out of retirement to go to Derby to survey the situation, insisting Hooker be accorded the status of technical director at Derby. Frameworks allow a Frameworker to build software products in a way similar to how IKEA allows me to build shelving units. and here is a good place to mention Hooker’s essentially collegial approach, as throughout his book he gives credit to the people he worked with, and to the companies great and small, which often self-financed developments.

Near Fine, edges dusty slight bumping, small address label to endpaper, in clean and bright dustwrapper. I was instantly impressed by the aura of good humour yet relentless energy that seemed to surround him. Smith had kept a close watch on Hooker’s work, offered him a new career with Bristol, and in 1950 he was appointed Chief Engineer.One of the heroes of Stanley Hooker’s first career: Ernest Hives as he looked when Hooker first met him. The same year the Air Ministry made a request for a turbocharged Merlin for use in the planned high altitude Wellington VI bomber. The economy of the country was very depressed, and jobs were hard to come by, and so it seemed quite reasonable to carry on as a student while I could get such funds to support me.

At the same time Rolls decided that their existing piston engines were a dead end, and moved all future jet work from Barnoldswick to Derby, their main engine site.They were great friends of course, and Wilkes, smilingly ignoring the jibe, replied, ‘We can’t get on with the fellow at all, and I would like to be shot of the whole business. In late 1937, while working at the Admiralty he applied for a job at Rolls-Royce, and after being interviewed by Ernest Hives, started there in January 1938.