Originally Posted by
GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
I think we should add Neville Shute Norway to Genghis The E's list. Model marine engineer, soldier, yachtsman, rigid airship engineer, mathematician, aeronautical design engineer (Airspeed Oxford, the over-top-deadcentre undercarriage lock), toolmaker, gentleman farmer and gifted fiction author.
Much of which is very well described in his autobiography "slide rule", which personally I think that everybody in our industry should read at some point.
G