Barnes Wallis's inventions seen from the perspective of popular science. Includes his famous designs for airships, aircraft and bombs. Also covers lesser-known post-war designs including supersonic and variable-geometry aircraft. Fully illustrated with archive photographs, drawings and computer-generated 3-D imagery of unbuilt projects. New Dambusters film expected for release in 2009.
Dr Iain Murray is a lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Dundee. Iain recently acted as a consultant for the ITV drama series Foyle's War, which featured an episode set around a group working on the 'bouncing bomb'. He lives in Dundee.
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