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Early Days of British Aeronautical Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. L. Nayler
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I Feel honoured to be asked to lecture here at my old university about the early days of British aeronautical research. I intend to mention only people and investigations relating to times that are more than fifty years ago, apart from incidental references which appear to be relevant. My first emphasis will be on persons, then conditions of work and later on some of the historic results relating to this early period, some of which have been neglected or forgotten in the intermediate period.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 72 , Issue 696 , December 1968 , pp. 1045 - 1054
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1968 

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