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Future Relationships Between Air and Ground Transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. R. Cooper
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“I think everyone would agree that high flight speed, although it is the spectacular signature of aviation, is not a significant measure of progress. If any one of the eight purpose factors is to be regarded as the specific goal of aviation or the dominant yardstick of its progress, I think that it is to transport as many people as possible, i.e. to create a big volume of aviation, in passenger-miles.”

Bo K. O. Lundberg

We are living at a time of transition in civil aviation, between subsonic and supersonic flight. Subsonic flight has no connection with ground transport and supersonic flight, as now envisaged has no connection either. It is thus rather necessary to explain the title of this paper which would otherwise be irrelevant.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 68 , Issue 647 , November 1964 , pp. 735 - 742
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1964

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Note on page 735 * “Theoretically the best shape for optimum cruise performance for Mach 2.0, is a slender delta about four times as long as its semi-span with slenderness increasing for higher speeds. However, more slender shapes have unacceptable handling characteristics at low speed…” Sir George Edwards, Brancker Memorial lecture to the Institute of Transport, 1963.