I highly recommend Nevil Shute's autobiography 'Slide Rule'. He was the Chief stress man on the competing R100 (designed by Barnes Wallis for Vickers). The R100 designs had to be submitted for checking by the Govt. The Govt's designs for the R101 were checked by...themselves!
Result: R100 highly successful. R101 crashes on first flight. Govt halts all airships and scraps R100.
Sound familiar??