Geoffrey T. R. Hill

Geoffrey Terence Roland Hill, MC, FRAeS (1895 – 26 December 1955) was a British aviator and aeronautical engineer.

[2] In 1912, with his younger brother, Roderic, they built a model aircraft for the Children's Exhibition at Olympia, which was followed by a nearly-successful full-sized glider.

[1][2] Subsequently, he went up to University College, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in 1914[2] and joined the Royal Aircraft Factory as a graduate apprentice.

[4] Invalided home, he moved back into test flying and by 1918 he was in command of the Aerodynamics Flight at the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

After the last Pterodactyl flew in 1932, he ended his association with Westland Aircraft in order to take up a chair as professor of sngineering science at London University.