1. Stanley Hooker was employed first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent, and later at Bristol Aero Engines where he helped bring the troubled Proteus turboprop and the Olympus turbojet to market.
20 Facts About Stanley Hooker
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Stanley Hooker then designed the famous Pegasus vectored thrust turbofan used in the Hawker Siddeley Harrier.
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Stanley Hooker won a scholarship for Imperial College London to study mathematics, and in particular, hydrodynamics.
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Stanley Hooker became more interested in aerodynamics, won the Busk studentship in aeronautics in 1928 and moved to Brasenose College, Oxford where he received his DPhil in this area in 1935.
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Stanley Hooker was permitted to study anything that caught his fancy, and soon moved into the supercharger design department.
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Stanley Hooker started researching the superchargers used on the Merlin engine, and calculated that big improvements could be made to their efficiency.
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Stanley Hooker was excited, and in turn brought Rolls-Royce chairman Ernest Hives to visit Rover's factory in Barnoldswick.
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In January 1949, Stanley Hooker went to work at the Bristol Aero Engine company.
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Stanley Hooker immediately started work on sorting out the various problems of Bristol's turboprop design, the Proteus, which was intended to power a number of Bristol aircraft designs, including the Britannia.
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Stanley Hooker worked on finishing the Olympus, developing later versions that would be used on the Avro Vulcan and Concorde and a further development for the stillborn TSR2.
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Stanley Hooker then used the Orpheus as the basis of an experimental vectored-thrust engine for STOVL aircraft, at that time considered by most to be the next big thing in aircraft design.
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In 1962, Stanley Hooker was made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Just prior to the bankruptcy, at the end of 1970, Hugh Conway agreed that Stanley Hooker should come out of retirement to go to Derby to survey the situation, insisting Stanley Hooker be accorded the status of technical director at Derby.
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Stanley Hooker was made responsible for technical supervision of the four gas turbine divisions and was leading a Rolls-Royce effort to improve both power and fuel consumption of the engine.
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Stanley Hooker was immediately appointed to the board of the new nationalised company, Rolls-Royce Ltd.
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The last year of Sir Stanley Hooker's life was a brave struggle against disease.
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Stanley Hooker was determined to complete his autobiography, and in this, as in most of his enterprises, he was successful.
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Stanley Hooker had been the original test pilot for the Harrier at Dunsfold.
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Stanley Hooker was very, very clever and a very good engineer.
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Stanley Hooker lived at 'Orchard Hill' in Milbury Heath.