Career
Born in Hounslow on 11 March 1865 Green opened a bicycle factory in Bexhill-on-Sea, and in 1905 built his first lightweight, water-cooled aircraft engine and soon established the Green Engine Company to produce them. Green engines were much used by the pioneers of British aviation, for example Alliott Verdon Roe and Samuel Cody. His later engines were too heavy for the aircraft of the time, but were used to power torpedo boats during World War I.
After World World War II, Green became involved in the development of the "flexible deck" concept for aircraft carriers, his ideas for such a deck culminating in the successful landing of a de Havilland Sea Vampire flown by Eric "Winkle" Brown on an experimental rubber deck installed on HMS Warrior.
