biography
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Wallis, Sir Barnes (Neville)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1979)
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| biography:
| Aeronautical engineer and inventor, born in Ripley, Derbyshire, C England, UK. He trained as a marine engineer, and became a designer in the airship department of Vickers, where he designed the R100. His many successes include the design of the Wellington Bomber, the bombs which destroyed the German warship Tirpitz and V-rocket sites, and the ‘bouncing bombs’ which destroyed the Mohne and Eder dams. He later became chief of aeronautical research at the British Aircraft Corporation, Weybridge (1945–71), and in the 1950s designed the first swing-wing aircraft. He was knighted in 1968. |
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