Gustavus Green

Gustavus Green ( born March 11, 1865 in Hounslow, † December 29, 1964 in London) was a British engineer.

Life

1905 Green developed the first water-cooled aircraft engines in England, and in 1913 he founded the Green Engine Company. The Green engines were used by many pioneers of British aviation, Alliott Verdon Roe, for example, founder of Avro Aircraft, and Samuel Franklin Cody.

1908 was the Green C.4, a water- cooled four -cylinder aircraft engine in series, 1911 was followed by the Green E.6, also a water-cooled six-cylinder engine. 1912 Green received the Patrick Young Alexander Prize. His later engines were used in torpedo boats during the First World War. After the Second World War, Green was involved in the development of the concept of flexible decks for light aircraft carrier. His ideas for such a deck received their confirmation by the successful landing of a De Havilland Sea Vampire flown by Eric Melrose Brown, on the experimental Green rubber cover ( rubber covering ) that on the HMS Warrior, a light aircraft carrier of the Colossus class, was installed.

Gustavus Green in 1958 Honorary Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He died in December 1964 at his home in London's Twickenham.