Rear Admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star " admiral" rank. It is often rega ...

Simon Henley

FRAeS The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a British multi-disciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community. Founded in 1866, it is the oldest aeronautical society in the world. Members, Fellows, ...

(born 1 March 1957) is a former

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officer, and a former President of the

Royal Aeronautical Society The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a British multi-disciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community. Founded in 1866, it is the oldest aeronautical society in the world. Members, Fellows ...

Early life

He attended Collyer’s Grammar School (since 1976

The College of Richard Collyer The College of Richard Collyer (colloquially Collyer's ), formerly called Collyer's School, is a co-educational sixth form college in Horsham, West Sussex, England. The college was rated as being ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2009. It is the s ...

from 1969–75, a

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) in

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, studying maths, physics and chemistry. He gained a BSc degree in mechanical engineering at the

Royal Naval Engineering College The Royal Naval Engineering College was a specialist establishment for the training of Royal Navy engineers. It was founded as Keyham College in 1880, new buildings were opened in Manadon, Devon in 1940 and the old college site at Keyham close ...

(RNEC) in Plymouth in 1979.

Career

Royal Navy

Henley worked for 32 years in the Royal Navy as an engineering officer until 2007. He was Project Director for four years of the UK part of the

Joint Strike Fighter program Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a development and acquisition program intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlan ...

Rolls-Royce

Henley joined Rolls-Royce in July 2008. He became chief executive of

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Rolls-Royce
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Europrop TP400 The Europrop International TP400-D6 is an 11,000 shp (8,200 kW) powerplant, developed and produced by Europrop International for the Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft. The TP400 is the most powerful turboprop in service u ...

for the

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. Henley served as President of the Royal Aeronautical Society from 2018 to 2019.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Henley, Simon 1957 births Living people British mechanical engineers Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society People educated at The College of Richard Collyer People from Horsham Rolls-Royce people Royal Navy rear admirals