biography
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Hooker, Sir Stanley George
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–84)
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| biography:
| Aero-engine designer, born in the I of Sheppey, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Imperial College, London, and Oxford, where he published several papers for the Royal Society on compressible fluid flow. He worked for Rolls–Royce (1938–49), designing superchargers for the Merlin aero-engine, and led them into jet-engine production. He then moved to the Bristol Aeroplane Company, working on Proteus, Olympus (for Concorde), Orpheus, and Pegasus (Harrier) jet engines. He returned from retirement in 1970 to Rolls–Royce to resolve the problems of the RB-211 engine. His autobiography, Not Much of an Engineer, was published in 1984. |
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