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David - that is a really good film.

Another interesting - and sad - story of government engineering versus private engineering - the R100 and R101. Nevil Shute tells the story in his 1954 book "Slide Rule".
 
The story of the R101 disaster was also very compellingly told in an 18 minute long song by none other than Iron Maiden as the last track on the Book Of Souls album.
 
Of course Barnes Wallis had a similar time getting most o his stuff passed the Ministry of defense.
I believe I read somewhere that Barnes Wallis questioned one of the officers that had rejected his bouncing bomb idea why he had turned it down. The reply was "I get 100 ideas of which only 1 is good so if I turn them all down I only make 1 mistake"

David
 
Great book.
I have read it several times.
Reading his Wikipedia entry I think I have read all his books

David

NutmegCT said:
David - that is a really good film.

Another interesting - and sad - story of government engineering versus private engineering - the R100 and R101. Nevil Shute tells the story in his 1954 book "Slide Rule".
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Nice that he was finally recognized (first in the USA and finally in the UK).
 
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