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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Orphan Charles Clement Walker Шаблон:Post-nominals (25 August 1877 – 30 September 1968) was a British engineer and aerodynamicist, who became a founding director and chief engineer at de Havilland.[1] He was "one of the great men of aviation's formative decades".[2]

Personal life

He was educated at Highgate School from 1887 to 1892 and went on to University College, London, where he was in 1938 elected a Fellow.[1][2]

He married Eileen Hood (1892 – 20 May 1970) on 2 September 1916 at St Michael's Church in Highgate, Middlesex.[3]

Their only son David was killed flying on a training aircraft with the 2FTS of the RAF, on 2 October 1941, aged 21.[4][5]

He lived at his house Foresters in Middlesex. He died aged 91 at home.[6]

His name is commemorated in Walker Grove, a street in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.[7]

See also

References

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Шаблон:De Havilland aircraft

  1. 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  2. 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
  3. Surrey Mirror Tuesday 5 September 1916, page 2
  4. Times obituary Tuesday 1 October 1968, page 12
  5. 1941 crash of his son
  6. Coventry Evening Telegraph Tuesday 1 October 1968, page 19
  7. Шаблон:Cite web