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Among his other inventions were his version of the geodetic airframe and the earthquake bomb , including designs such as the Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs. John Ashby. The Wallis family subsequently moved to New Cross , south London, living in "straitened, genteel circumstances" after Charles Wallis was crippled by polio in He subsequently changed his apprenticeship to J.

Samuel White 's, the shipbuilders based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

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He originally trained as a marine engineer and in he took a degree in engineering via the University of London External Programme. Wallis left J. Samuel White's in when an opportunity arose for him as an aircraft designer , at first working on airships and later aeroplanes. He joined Vickers — later part of Vickers-Armstrongs and then part of the British Aircraft Corporation — and worked for them until his retirement in Pratt , helping to nurse it though its political stop-go career and protracted development.

The first airship of his own design, the R80 , incorporated many technical innovations and flew in