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The role of wind tunnels in future aircraft development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Ronald Smelt
Ronald Smelt*
Affiliation:
Lockheed Corporation
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Presentation of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim International Memorial Lecture is both a high honour and a challenge. The challenge is implicit in the final two words—to present to you both a lecture and a fitting memorial to the remarkable Guggenheim family. I believe that the subject which I have chosen is particularly appropriate for this task. As many of you know, Daniel Guggenheim, in the years from 1925 to his death in 1930, sponsored and endowed the now famous Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories in major universities across the USA. It is clear from his writing that these were not simply gifts to the universities—conventional endowments—but that they reflected Daniel Guggenheim's vision of a future in which the aircraft would link cities and countries in a safe, efficient civil transport system surpassing all other modes of travel.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 82 , Issue 815 , November 1978 , pp. 467 - 474
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1978 

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