Articles tagged Stanley Hooker

Page 88 of July 2002 archive issue thumbnail

Page 88, July 2002

The four-year mile

Meet the land speed record's answer to the BRM V16. With the might of British industry behind it Donald Cambelesjet-powered bluebird broke the record by just 9mph after four years of effort but it had the potential to go a lot faster, writes Keith Howard Plot a graph of land speed record marks against the dates they were set and the upward trend holds consistent until August 1939, when John Cobb...

Page 55 of July 1984 archive issue thumbnail

Page 55, July 1984

Book reviews

"Adventure with Fate" by Harald Penrose, OBE, CEng, FRAeS etc, 394 pp, 9 in x 6 in. (Airlife Publications Ltd, 7 St John's Hill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 11E. £14.95.) Here is the book I have waited a long time for! — Harald Penrose's aviation autobiography. He was Westland's Chief Test-Pilot, but was much more besides, so that he knew almost everyone of importance in the developing years of...