Lord Hunt of Chesterton obituary (opens in new tab)

Met Office director general whose ideas about turbulence are now used in the building of high structuresOn 1 November 1965, three giant cooling towers at Ferrybridge power station in West Yorkshire collapsed during a gale. No one was killed but the incident triggered widespread alarm. The towers had been built to withstand far greater wind forces but had nevertheless disintegrated. Why had this occurred and what other buildings were at risk across the UK?To find the answer, the Central Electr...