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    WHAT ABOUT UNCLE ALF?

    Oct 02, 2020 5 minutes

    Letter of the MONTH

    I enjoy the articles in all of your magazines, and look forward to buying each issue. Regarding your article by Ritchie Wilson, Engines Enable Exploration (July–August 2020, Issue No. 91), in the section ‘The Hamilton jet is born’, Mr Wilson stated that “The breakthrough, which resulted in a much more effective propulsion system, was to have the jet of water squirting at the water surface rather than into the water below the surface. This idea was so successful that it allowed Bill to redirect his Christchurch-based engineering company away from its heavy-engineering work.”

    Nowhere in his article does it state who came up with the idea of squirting the water on top. The above passage leads the uninformed reader to believe that it was in fact Bill Hamilton.

    “Hamilton asked former apprentice, Alf Dick, to help. Dick came up with the idea

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