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The Royal Aeronautical Society The First Fifty Years—1866 and All That

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. Laurence Pritchard
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“ God bless the Duke of Argyll!”

In the Lecture Hall at Hamilton Place, London, of the oldest aeronautical society in the world, that Duke of Argyll, who became its first President in 1866, looks silently down upon those members who, less than a century later, succeeded so noisily to fly faster than the sounds of their own triumphant cries of success.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 65 , Issue 603 , March 1961 , pp. 190 - 194
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1961

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References

Annual Report, 1866; Council Minutes. 1866; The Reign of Law. Duke of Argyll. 1865; Annual Report of the British Association. 1865; F. W. Brearey, Council paper, 28th February 1866. Newspapers, particularly The Times, 1866. Society's letter files; Brearey's finance and letter books; Mechanics Magazine, 1866; Engineering, 1866.Google Scholar