John Lanfear Scott-Scott (22 June 1934 – 12 December 2015) was a British mechanical and aerospace engineer. After graduating from the

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, he joined Armstrong Siddeley Motors in 1955, becoming a hydrodynamicist at their Rocket Department. He worked there on

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, making important contributions to the fuel pump system. Later he helped to form, and worked at,

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until he retired in 2011. 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.Minutes of the Coventry Branch Committee, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust held in the RRHT Coventry Branch Library

External links

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott-Scott, John 1934 births 2015 deaths Rocket scientists Space programme of the United Kingdom Alumni of the University of Birmingham