Sir Barnes Wallis
Bill McNaught
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Retirement hobby
- Fee:
- Paid: £50- £70
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 9th February 2021
- Tagged:
- British History | Engineering | Aviation
Wallis is best known for his bouncing bomb used to destroy German dams in WW2, but in his early years he was a Naval Architect before moving on to become one of the country’s leading airship designers. Reluctantly he transitioned to design aircraft, following the demise of airships, and perhaps his most famous design was the Wellington bomber. He studied bomb design and as well as the dams bomb, he designed the two large largest bombs used during WW2, the Tallboy and Grand Slam. In his later years he became convinced that future passenger aircraft should be supersonic and one of his innovative designs was the swing-wing concept.
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I started work in 1961 as a Westland Helicopters engineering apprentice spending 25 years with the company before moving on to manage a number of other aviation and defence companies. I retired in 2008 and started giving talks as a hobby. My talks are all the result of extensive research of the subject and I try and include as many pictures and film as possible. I particularly like ‘fascinating historical characters’ .
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