Born in 1934 in
Woolwich, Michael Adams was educated at
City of London School. He had an older brother,
Frank Adams, who became an accomplished mathematician, known for the
Adams spectral sequence,
Adams operations and
Adams conjecture. Michael joined the
Royal Air Force in 1952. and Senior Directing Officer at the
Royal College of Defence Studies between 1987 and 1988. As a test pilot, he worked on the
Tornado fighter, the
Puma helicopter, and the European Fighter Aircraft (
Eurofighter Typhoon). He was supposed to be one of two pilots to fly a
Harrier jump jet in the 1969
Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race, but was injured before the competition when the nosewheel collapsed on a Harrier he was testing. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1988. Adams died on 30 August 2022, at the age of 88. ==References==