Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Barnes Wallis NPG x185890

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Godfrey Argent

Born in Ripley, Derbyshire, Wallis originally trained as a marine engineer. However, in 1913 he went to work for the engineering firm Vickers at Barrow designing the R9 rigid airship, completed in 1916. After the war, he worked on the airship R80, which flew in 1920. At Vickers at Cardington, he developed airships for commercial routes to India and contributed to aeroplane designs including the Wellesley and Wellington bombers. Wallis devised the 'bouncing bombs' associated with the 'Dambuster' raids used by Lancaster bombers to destroy... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.