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- Dennistoun_Burney abstract "Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, 2nd Baronet (28 December 1888 – 11 November 1968, Bermuda) was an English aeronautical engineer, private inventor and Conservative Party politician.Burney, often called Dennis Burney, was the son Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney Bt. He was given naval education, starting his training at HMS Britannia in 1903, and joining the battleship Exmouth) as a midshipman in early 1905. In 1909 he was posted to the destroyer HMS Crusader, then being used for experimental anti-submarine work.In 1911 he came up with a novel seaplane design using a hydrofoil undercarriage. Further development was carried out by the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company and two prototype designs, the X.2 and X.3, were produced, but were not successful. On the outbreak of World War I Burney was given command of the destroyer HMS Velox, but shortly joined the research establishment at HMS Vernon. Here he developed the paravane, an anti-mine device - for which he took out a number of patents in 1916. These were to earn him around £350,000 durng the course of the war through their use by foreign merchant fleets. In 1920 Burney retired from the navy with the rank of lieutenant-commander, and was promoted on the retired list to commander.He then became a consultant with Vickers and came up with a plan for civil airship development which was to be carried out by Vickers with support from the Government. This evolved into the Imperial Airship Scheme which was to result in the R100 and R101 airships: Burney became managing director of the specially formed subsidiary of Vickers that built the R100 airship, where his design team, headed by Barnes Wallis included Nevil Shute, later to become famous as a novelist.In 1929 he published a book called The World, the Air and the Future.In 1939 he was again joined by Nevil Shute in the development of an early air-launched gliding torpedo, the Toraplane, and the gliding bomb, Doravane. Despite much work and many trials the Toraplane could not be launched with repeatable accuracy and was finally abandoned in 1942.Burney was Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge from 1922 until he retired in 1929.His private interests led him to set up a company Streamline Cars Ltd to build technically advanced aerodynamic rear-engined cars from 1930–1934, that were taken up by Crossley Motors.Among other military weapons, he was the inventor of the squash-head shell (High Explosive Squash Head shell) and the British developer of the recoilless rifle which were known as "Burney guns". He demonstrated the advantages of the latter by constructing a recoilless shotgun with a 1 inch bore which he was able to shoot with no discomfort from the recoil. During World War II he led development of a recoilless weapon for the British Army which entered service as Ordnance, RCL, 3.45 in but too late to see service during the war. He succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1929 and was in turn succeeded by his only child.".
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