John Scott-Scott Explained

John Lanfear Scott-Scott (22 June 1934^[1] – 12 December 2015^[2]) was a British mechanical and aerospace engineer.After graduating from the University of Birmingham, he joined Armstrong Siddeley Motors in 1955, becoming a hydrodynamicist at their Rocket Department.^[3] He worked there on Black Arrow, making important contributions to the fuel pump system.^[4]

Later he helped to form, and worked at,^[5] Reaction Engines Limited until he retired in 2011.^[6]

Scott-Scott married Pauline W. A. Cullen in 1955; they had two daughters and a son.

He was the Chairman of the Coventry Branch, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust from November 2000 until May 2014.^[7]

External links

• BBC4: The Three Rocketeers
• An Oral History of British Science, interview with John Scott-Scott interview

Notes and References

1. Web site: Scott-Scott, John (Part 1 of 18). An Oral History of British Science. - Oral history of British science - Oral history | British Library - Sounds.
2. Web site: Reaction Engines Ltd - About Us: History: John Scott-Scott . 2016-01-01 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160120104427/http://reactionengines.co.uk/about_history_john_scott-scott.html . 20 January 2016 . dmy-all .
3. News: Operation Backfire. Spufford. Francis. 28 October 1999. London Review of Books. 21–27. 3 July 2013.
4. , British Library
5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mqv45 BBC4: The Three Rocketeers
6. Web site: Reaction Engines Ltd - News | November 2011 . 3 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130623083802/http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_nov2011.html . 23 June 2013 . dead .
7. Minutes of the Coventry Branch Committee, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust held in the RRHT Coventry Branch Library