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'We all owe a great deal to George Edwards, though few people will know how much until they read this biography' - Sir John Major
He was the designer of Britain's first V-bomber, the leader of the British Concorde team, and the man who made the bouncing bomb bounce. Yet George Edwards's name is all but forgotten today.
The son of a widowed tobacconist from the East End of London, Edwards started his career in aviation in 1935, when he became a junior draughtsman in Vickers Aviation's Surrey factory for the princely sum of 5 guineas a week. Within ten years he was their chief designer; within thirty-five he was the managing director of British Aircraft Corporation.
Written using thirty hours of exclusive interviews with Edwards himself, From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde is an illuminating look at a man who helped shape post-war Britain's aviation industry.
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Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Author's Note
1 In the Beginning
2 A Job at Vickers
3 Preparing for War
4 'Down with 'Itler'
5 Working for Beaverbrook
6 Bouncing Bombs
7 Mission to Germany
8 Chief Designer
9 'The Heat and Burden of the Viscount'
10 'Falling in Love with the Viscount'
11 Britain's First V-bomber
12 Managing Director
13 Ethel Merman, Bob Six, but Mostly Howard Hughes
14 'The Biggest Blunder of All'
15 Accolades, Worries and the Vanguard
16 The VC10 - 'A Sorry Story'
17 Rationalisation
18 TSR.2 and a New Partner
19 British Aircraft Corporation
20 TSR.2 - the Beginning of the End
21 TSR.2 - the End
22 Life After Death, but Only Just
23 Concorde - the Beginnings
24 'She Flies'
25 Trouble with the French
26 Guided Weapons and Defence Contracts
27 His Last Aircraft
28 Enter the Wide-Bodies
29 Changes at the Top
30 'Merger-itis' and Nationalisation
31 Into Retirement
32 Pastimes, Painting and 'Cricket, Lovely Cricket'
33 The University of Surrey and a Personal Crusade
34 'A Man of Absolute Rectitude'
35 Last Overs
Envoi
Appendix One: Abbreviations
Appendix Two: Chronology
Bibliography
