Robert Talbot Youngman
From Graces Guide
1896 Born in Crookham
Occupation: engine fittng and testing
WWI Served in the Royal Navy, initially as aircraft mechanic at HMS Pembroke III, and later in the Royal Air Force
1921 Became a student member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
1939 Aeronautical Engineer lived in Wycombe with his wife Katherine[1]
Invented a system of slotted flaps for aircraft which was tested in the Youngman-Baynes High Lift Research Aircraft
1988 Died in Wooburn Green, Bucks[2]
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