Michael Adams

Biography Born in 1934 in Woolwich, Michael Adams was educated at City of London School. He had an older brother, Frank Adams, who became an accomplished mathematician, known for the Adams spectral sequence, Adams operations and Adams conjecture. Michael joined the Royal Air Force in 1952. and Senior Directing Officer at the Royal College of Defence Studies between 1987 and 1988.

As a test pilot, he worked on the Tornado fighter, the Puma helicopter, and the European Fighter Aircraft (Eurofighter Typhoon). He was supposed to be one of two pilots to fly a Harrier jump jet in the 1969 Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race, but was injured before the competition when the nosewheel collapsed on a Harrier he was testing. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1988.

Adams died on 30 August 2022, at the age of 88.