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A native of England, during World War II he experienced bombing attacks in his hometown and witnessed an aerial attack that may have inspired his future career. In the 1960s he migrated to the United States as a graduate student at Cornell University, eventually moving to the West Coast where he joined The Boeing Company in Seattle. With a background in design studies of commercial aircraft, he began a 33-year career at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach leading a design team for passenger aircraft.