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Sir George Robert Freeman Edwards OM CBE FREng FRS DL (9 July 1908 – 2 March 2003), was a British aircraft designer and industrialist.
Sir George Edwards OBE (5 October 1850 – 6 December 1933) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Early life and career. Edwards was born in Marsham, Norfolk, the son of a poor ex-soldier who worked as an agricultural labourer.
George Edwards stood out as the dominant British personality, of world stature, among the second generation of aeronautical engineers and industry leaders – carrying forward the torch of pioneers such as Geoffrey de Havilland, Donald Douglas, Richard Fairey, Frederick Handley Page, James McDonnell, A.V. Roe, the Short brothers and Tom Sopwith.
In this Brooklands Stories, volunteer Peter Kearns is sharing the story of aircraft designer, Managing Director and Chairman of BAC, Sir George Edwards.
The Viscount was designed by George Edwards (later Sir George Edwards), who was for a quarter of a century from 1950, the dominant figure in British aviation, both civil and military.
Jun 22, 2006 · George Edwards' name is synonymous with the Vickers Viscount, the world's first turboprop airliner; the controversial TSR2 project and the legendary Anglo-French Concorde. During the Second World War, it was Edwards who made the Dam Busters' bouncing bombs bounce.
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Mar 8, 2003 · Sir George Edwards, who designed the four-engine Viscount turboprop airliner and was a leader in the development of the supersonic Concorde, died on Monday. He was 94.
