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“By the application of power”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

John L. Edwards
John L. Edwards*
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Manufacturing, Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited
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Sir George Cayley was a great man, many years in advance of his time and with a grasp of fundamentals which must be the envy of many people, even today. Consider the mental prowess of a man who in the technical environment of 170 years ago, where a 12 hp engine was as shown in Fig. 1, could make the statement that, “The whole problem is confined within these limits, namely, to make a surface support a given weight by the application of power to the resistance of air”; it is truly remarkable. It seems to me that the phrase I have extracted from that statement as a title to this lecture epitomises both the man and the subject.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 79 , Issue 770 , February 1975 , pp. 59 - 85
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1975 

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