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Rebels and disruptors
My love letter to engineers
Rebels and disruptors
I’ve always had a secret admiration for rebels and disruptors — the innovators who shaped the world, only for history to misplace their names. Claude Grahame-White was one of them.
My fascination began with a family story: I was told as a child that my father’s great-uncle was a famous aviator. That rumour — half myth, half memory — sent m
I’ve always had a secret admiration for rebels and disruptors — the innovators who shaped the world, only for history to misplace their names. Claude Grahame-White was one of them.
My fascination began with a family story: I was told as a child that my father’s great-uncle was a famous aviator. That rumour — half myth, half memory — sent me on a decades-long trail of discovery. I’d dip in and out of it between careers and chapters of my own life, occasionally shelving the papers, only to return to them again. When I reconnected with my father after twenty years apart, something in me wanted to finish what I’d started. This book is the result.
Lawyer to writer
My love letter to engineers
Rebels and disruptors
I trained and practised as a lawyer, and perhaps it was that part of me — the part that loves unpicking documents and finding what’s hidden in plain sight — that helped me uncover the real story behind Claude’s fall from grace. When government files about his legal case against the British Government were finally released in 1984, they re
I trained and practised as a lawyer, and perhaps it was that part of me — the part that loves unpicking documents and finding what’s hidden in plain sight — that helped me uncover the real story behind Claude’s fall from grace. When government files about his legal case against the British Government were finally released in 1984, they revealed an extraordinary and largely untold chapter of his life. My legal background helped me interpret those papers and understand what really happened at Hendon — how the world’s first aerodrome was effectively taken from him, and why he quietly walked away from the industry he’d helped to build.
My love letter to engineers
My love letter to engineers
My love letter to engineers
But this isn’t just a legal story. It’s a love letter to engineers, dreamers, and the beautifully unreasonable people who try to defy gravity — literal or otherwise. Claude was one of them: impatient yet meticulous, charming yet divisive, a showman who made aviation glamorous long before it was safe.
When I’m not writing, I host conversati
But this isn’t just a legal story. It’s a love letter to engineers, dreamers, and the beautifully unreasonable people who try to defy gravity — literal or otherwise. Claude was one of them: impatient yet meticulous, charming yet divisive, a showman who made aviation glamorous long before it was safe.
When I’m not writing, I host conversations as a podcaster, exploring how innovation, courage, and human complexity shape our world. This project — part detective story, part act of restoration — feels like a small way to give back the recognition that Claude, and so many others like him, never quite received.