The bloke who figured out the rubber cone brings to mind a good friend who died this week, Lyle. While he was working in drafting at an aerospace company, he was brought in to sketch out the design that the engineers were spitballing. The brains were still arguing about their design. On his break, he went and grabbed a surplus office cart, some sheet stock and borrowed a drill. He cobbled together his idea and presented it to the engineers. They saw it did what they needed while being basically free and immediately available. To top it off, the cart was mobile since it had casters. RIP Lyle 1935-2024.
It reminds me of a good friend of my brother's - George - who worked for R-R as an aero photographer after the war (he worked with Sidney Cotton to clandestinely photograph Germany, prior to WW2). He had loads of photos of all the trials to de-ice jet engines (mounted on Lancaster bombers). These photos are all now on display in the Heritage Trust centre at Hucknall - along with mock ups, models and everything to do with actual Flight testing.
@@wessexdruid7598 I've read of Mr. Cotton in some of my old aero books. Britain had so many decent, competent blokes that helped enormously in the war. Respect.
Guy is amazing. He is such a likeable character. He reminds me very much of Fred Dibnah rip. Never happier than when in overalls, hands dripping in oil, tinkering with parts in a shed.
Mr Martin l bet you’re job title is a long as you’re arm with everything you have done and at the end of every job you have done they say yes you can work for us attention to detail like that well done sir 👏👏👍😊
So I live in the U.S. I would love to watch the full documentary but the link says it’s only available in the UK. Is there any other way to watch the full documentary. Thank you
Just a rubber tit on the end of the cone to stop ice build up at 35.000ft at -40. A simple idea to a big problem for Rolls Royce, thanks to Frank in the factory. He probably came up with that idea after racking his brain dunking a biscuit in a cup of tea. It’s great to see british owned manufacturers alive and well and up in the north where Britains industrial heartland was the epicentre of GT. Britains manufacturing base. The U.K. leads the world in innovation but the powers that be have done a lot of damage destroying British owned manufacturing, outsourcing everything and importing everything. Yet, the R&D and innovation still comes from the U.K..
