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Some Thoughts on Aeronautical Research and Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

M. B. Morgan
M. B. Morgan*
Affiliation:
Royal Aircraft Establishment
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Extract

“To know, can only wonder breede,

And not to know, is wonders seede.”

There is a peculiar magic in these lines of Sidney Godolphin, penned 300 years ago. I can think of no better introduction to a paper on aeronautical research and design.

Flying is rather a remarkable business, about which we are inclined to get a little blasé nowadays. Few things can tax the engineers' skill more than the design of a modern high performance aeroplane. In its way it represents supremacy in engineering achievement. Let us not take all this too much for granted; and let us remember those gifted designers—no longer with us— who laid the foundations of the art. Among these, the name of Roy Chadwick stands high.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 61 , Issue 561 , September 1957 , pp. 579 - 593
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1957

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References

Note on page 579 * The Second Chadwick Memorial Lecture; given to the Manchester Branch of the Society on 13th May 1957.

Note on page 590 * The Importance of Time in Aircraft Manufacture, F. R. Banks, Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, January 1957.