They didn't know what to do with him, never having had such and esoteric person working there before. However, after my evening meal, I cheered up a bit when it occurred to me that the only possible explanation must be that the powers that be were still debating my ultimate fate, and had not yet reached any conclusion about the job I was to do. Near Fine, edges dusty slight bumping, small address label to endpaper, in clean and bright dustwrapper.

Inspired by the Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Hyman Levy, Hooker studied the characteristics of eddies produced by drag of shapes immersed in fluids, which of course include air.As a sub-contractor to Rolls-Royce for Avon engines required during the Korean War, Bristol was well equipped to develop Hooker’s and his team’s innovative designs. Hooker would then spend the rest of his long career involved at the cutting edge of jet engine design with both Rolls-Royce and the Bristol Aero Engine company and his engines powered all of the icons of British aircraft such as Vulcan, Concorde, TSR2 and the VTOL Harrier. Hooker’s affection for the environment of Oxford is obvious, as is his sorrow for the promising lives lost during Second World War.

For this role, he produced his first completely original design, the Orpheus, which went on to power the Fiat G91 and other light fighters. What could have turned out to be a bit of a dry read instead turned out to be fascinating and illuminating in equal amounts. I. Taylor ranks at the very top — before Prandtl of Göttingen, von Kármán of Aachen or Southwell of Oxford.There is an oblique reference to his stay in hospital in 1982, and his book was “ assisted by Bill Gunston” (1927–2013) an eminent aviation author and historian. Every time you ride in a modern jet aircraft, get electricity from an Avon gas-turbine generator, thank Frank and Stanley. Its a fascinating story of a different time - a young man studying mathematics in the 1930's and of the second World War. Sir Stanley George Hooker, CBE, FRS, [3] [4] DPhil, BSc, FRAeS, MIMechE, [5] FAAAS (30 September 1907 – 24 May 1984), was a mathematician and jet engine engineer.

He was determined to complete his autobiography, and in this, as in most of his enterprises, he was successful.It taught me a lot as an aspiring engineer and it would help to keep the name of one of Britain’s finest engineers alive. Of course the same paper, when used for the text and for the illustrations, means that we seem to be with Hooker on that damp and grey day in January 1938, as he walked to the Rolls-Royce works, but perhaps that is for the better for a reading of the man and his achievements. pm there was a general exodus, and I departed with the rest, thoroughly dispirited at the emptiness of my first day.