biography
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Edwards, Sir George (Robert)
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| lived:
| (1908–2003)
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| biography:
| Designer of aircraft, born in Higham's Park, E Greater London, UK. He studied engineering at London University, then joined the design staff of Vickers-Armstrong at Weybridge, where he was experimental manager in World War 2, becoming chief designer in 1945. Responsible for Viking, Valiant, Viscount, and Vanguard aircraft, he was managing director of the British Aircraft Corporation (1960–3), and later chairman (1963–75). Among his many awards were two Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Medals (1957) and the US Guggenheim Award (1959), and he was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1968. He was knighted in 1957. |
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