By the Editor – Despite reluctance to accept the fact, good ideas are never the preserve of the senior and the supposedly more ‘experienced’. Fostering innovation means supporting an environment that welcomes ideas from unexpected quarters – patently something we have, traditionally, been bad at. In this case Iville Porteous’ development of the Flyplane Predictor System for anti-aircraft fire control. “Sadly Flyplane can be said to have been born on the wrong side of the blanket as far as ‘Official’ Admiralty design was concerned. It was conceived originally by one very junior naval officer an…
