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The Second Barnwell Memorial Lecture*: The Outlook on Airframe Fatigue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Walter Tye
Walter Tye*
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Air Registration Board
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My pleasure in accepting your invitation to lecture, which I treat as a great honour, has been somewhat overshadowed by doubt that I shall do justice to the occasion. This is but the second lecture to commemorate Captain Frank Barnwell. I am fully alive to the fact that the members of this Branch of the Society, many of whom were Captain Barnwell's personal friends, are very desirous of establishing, in these early lectures, a standard which is a worthy memorial.

Captain Barnwell was one of a small number—I suppose they can be counted on the fingers of two hands —who, by their courage and ability, made the barely flyable contraptions of 50 years ago into the aeroplanes we know today. The changes in aeronautical engineering have been so great that it is not easy to realise in 1955 the problems Barnwell and his colleagues faced in 1905, the year of the first Barnwell designs.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 59 , Issue 533 , May 1955 , pp. 339 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1955

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Footnotes

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Given to the Bristol Branph of the Society on 8th March 1955.

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