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The aerodynamics of aircraft and other things

Part of: RAeS Lanchester Lecture Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

P. R. Owen
P. R. Owen*
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London
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In pondering on a subject for this, the fifteenth, memorial lecture, I hoped to find something that might reflect the spirit of Frederick William Lanchester's work. But first of all, I tried to learn a little more of the man himself: his history and the design of events that agitated his enquiring mind. Most of what I discovered only emphasised my own unworthiness to contribute to his memory. For I am a member of Imperial College, and it was from that Institution that Lanchester left, disenchanted, in his third year without taking his degree. Worse still, I hold the Zaharoff Chair of Aviation; in one of my distinguished predecessors, Lanchester was later to discover a fierce opponent to his theory of the lifting wing and to his equally remarkable vortex theory of the propeller. It was only in another sphere, that of the Aeronautical Research Council, that I was able to establish a happy bond between us.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 77 , Issue 752 , August 1973 , pp. 383 - 405
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1973 

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