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Early Days:

Christopher Green BA,CEng,RAeS was born at 8 Dragon Yard, in Farnworth, Widnes in 1948 to James and Louisa Green. He later attended St Bedes Primary and Saints John Fisher and Thomas More Secondary Boys Schools. His hobies then, were making model Aircraft and Plane spotting at Speke Liverpool airport. This occupied his time until at the age of thirteen he was old enough to join the local 310 Widnes Squadron of the Air Training Corps as a Cadet. He was too young to go flying so he began constructing basic mechanical flying Simulators out of Plywood, with wires and pulleys. This developed his interest and understanding of 'flying control surfaces' and how to develop simple designs techniques. He avidley read Aviation books from the Widnes public Library not only on local Flying Aces like Thomas Mottershead, but also on British Aircraft Designers like Roy Chadwick who was a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. And had designed the Avro Lancaster Bomber and also laid down the plans for the future Delta winged Avro Vulcan which would go into service with the RAF, and would later be used as a 'Flying Test Bed' for the future Delta winged Concorde project.

Military Training:

In 1966, like many other Air Cadets before him, Christopher Green also joined the Royal Air Force and began his training at No4 School of Technical Training at RAF St Athan in South Wales. On completion he was posted to the Central Flying School at RAF Little Rissington on De Havilland Chipmunk, Vickers Varsity multi radial engined Transport, Jet Provost and the Folland Gnat fast jet trainer. After which, for his final two years in the Airforce he was posted to the Far East, at RAF Changi on 48 Squadron C130 Hercules Transport aircraft operating worldwide.

The Airforce had thus provided Christopher Green with a perfect foundation for a future career in aviation. And he would now focus on the types of aircraft he had worked with during his time in an RAF 'functioning in peacetime' i.e on Flying Training and Passenger Transport Aircraft.

Civil Aviation: Passenger Transport Aircraft

In 1971 as part of his Resetlement course from the RAF he was given a grant to study a two year Higher National level course at Brunel Technical College at Ashly Down, Bristol culminating in the award of a CAA Aircraft Engineering Licence in Avionics. A Licence that would allow him to freelance his employment whilst he continued his academic studies to Degree Level at Bristol Polytechnic. He therefore took part-time agency contract work at the local BAC(British Aircraft Corporation site at Filton Aerodrome. Where it just so happend to be the site of Design, Test and Production for the Anglo French Delta winged BAC Concorde. His CAA Licences was welcomed with open arms including his RT Radio Telephony Licence, HF Communications being the means of communicating DATA in those days, with lines from Flight Test teams in the field back to the Design Technical Offices at Filton and Fairford.         Christopher Green was also put to work on Concorde Production, Inspection, Flight Test and Certification and carried out contract work at Filton until the last Concorde was completed in 1979. This was to be the first great Civil Aviation Project he worked on that produced the first Supersonic commercial Jet passenger Aircraft in the world.

Aircraft Systems Design: In 1984 Christopher Green returned to Filton after working worldide as a CAA Licenced Aircraft Avionics Engineer. This time he took up full time employment not with BAC but with the newly formed British Aerospace an active partner in the Airbus Consortium. He was employed as an Aircraft Systems Design Engineer in No 7 Design Office on the integation of the electrical systems within the Main Wings and Landing gears of the Airbus A330 and A340 but more significantley on the first digital 'Fly by Wire' passenger jet aircraft the revolutionary AirbusA320 the second of the great aviation projects he would work on.

Military: Flying Training Aircraft

In 1989 Christopher Green left the Airbus Division to return to the North Country with the British Aerospace Military Division at Brough. Where he worked on the all British fast jet trainer as part of the Hawk in-service Engineering team. He achieved accelerated promotion to Group Leader and became a Hawk in-service Avionic Specialist. This was all taking place during the design transition from discrete Avionic systems of the first Hawk series to the digital Avionic integration in the form of the current Hawk series. The BAE Systems Hawkis now the most successful 'all British' aircraft jet trainer of all time. It also concluded the third great aviation project of his career.

It was during this time that Christopher Green wrote his seminal paper for the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) in the form of a Post Graduate Dissertation on 'The Evolution of Avionics on Fast Jet Trainers'. For which he was made a full member of the Society (MRAeS)and inducted in to the UK Engineering Council as a Chartered Aeronatical Engineer CEng. . He had not only worked on some of the greatest and most sophisticated aircraft design projects of the 20th century but had joined the ranks of the great Chartered Aeoronatical Engineers of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Moreover,and perhaps the greatest irony in all of this was, he was later to find out, that  Roy Chadwick, designer of the Lancaster Bomber was also born in the same village as himself, just yards away from Dragon Yard at Marsh Hall Farm in Farnworth, Widnes - two Notable Chartered Aeronautical Engineers from the same village. 

