Название: Not Much of an Engineer
Автор: Stanley Hooker
Издательство: Airlife
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 353
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

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 pounds and buy its rival. By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible.