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The well tempered transport aircraft engine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

John G. Borger
John G. Borger*
Affiliation:
Pan American Airways Inc*
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Extract

You have honoured me and my associates in asking me to present your Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture. When I saw the list of my predecessors, and their contributions to aviation, I must say I have joined a very select company and can only hope that I shall be able to justify your faith.

When I first selected my title, I was not aware that the ‘Well Tempered’ description had been used previously by Arthur Raymond in his 1951 Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society. With sincere apologies to Mr Raymond, who was for many years responsible for engineering leadership of the Douglas Company, the selection of ‘Well Tempered’, which he derived from Johann Sebastian Bach, still seems most appropriate. I hope he will forgive me for using it again.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 85 , Issue 849 , November 1981 , pp. 395 - 413
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1981 

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Footnotes

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Now retired.

References

The Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture given to the Derby Branch of the RAeS in November 1980.