Arthur Ernest Hagg (1888 – 21 January 1985) was a British aircraft and boat designer. He was born in Brighton and educated in Bournemouth. He started work for

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in 1915, aged 27, and worked as a draftsman on the DH4 in 1916. He transferred to the

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(Stag Lane) when it was created in 1920. At de Havilland he invented the differential ailerons used on the

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and other de Havilland aircraft eventually becoming chief designer. In this role he was responsible for the designs of the DH88 Comet racer and of the

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and the

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airliners. Hagg became interested in boat building and in early 1937 he resigned his position as director and chief designer at de Havilland to set up the Walton Yacht Works. In November of that year he also became a consultant with D Napier and Son, Ltd., overseeing Heston's design team for the

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, a wooden aircraft powered by a

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engine and designed to break the world airspeed record. In January 1943 he joined

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as technical director and was responsible for the

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(BEA Elizabethan). He retired in 1947.

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