Frederick Page

Sir Frederick William Page CBE FRS FREng (20 February 1917 – 29 May 2005) was an English aircraft designer. He had large involvements with two British aircraft projects - the Lightning and the TSR2.

Life
Page was assistant to W.E.W. Petter, Chief Engineer at English Electric. When Petter left EE in 1950, Page took over.

He was appointed CBE in 1961, and knighted in 1979. He became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1977 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.

British Aerospace
When British Aerospace was formed, when BAC merged with Hawker Siddeley and Scottish Aviation, he was Chairman and Chief Executive from 1977 until 1982, when he retired.