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Aero and underwater engineering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

G. S. Henson
G. S. Henson*
Affiliation:
Vickers Ltd
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The first item in this paper is a comparative review of the history of air and underwater achievements. We shall see that commercial underwater vehicles are a recent development and offer today a magnificent challenge to engineers with many opportunities and pitfalls. Small multi-disciplinary teams of engineers are able to advance rapidly, and the calibre of a few men matters, rather than vast organisations. In some ways this resembles the aeronautical world of the 1920s and 30s, during which period R. J. Mitchell contributed so greatly. Certainly it is closer to that period of aeronautics than to aerospace today, as I shall try to show.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 79 , Issue 776 , August 1975 , pp. 354 - 360
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1975 

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References

22nd Mitchell Memorial Lecture presented on 26th February 1975 at Southampton on the occasion of a joint symposium with the Society of Underwater Technology on 'Underwater and space problems and achievements'.