Not Much of an Engineer
- Authors
- Hooker, Stanley
- Publisher
- Airlife Publishing
- Tags
- not much of an engineer , biography
- ISBN
- 9781847973252
- Date
- 1984-05-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 12.40 MB
- Lang
- en
Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to spend 63.6 million and buy its rival. By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible.