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The High Speed Track Facility and its Comparison with other Full Scale Testing Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. Howe
D. Howe*
Affiliation:
Cranfield Institute of Technology
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Extract

In the fourteenth Henson and Stringfellow lecture delivered to the Society earlier this year, Speechley compared the development of the helicopter with that of conventional fixed-wing aircraft. He pointed out that some ten years elapsed between Kittyhawk and the mass production of military aircraft which occurred during the First World War, and that there were a further two decades before the commercial breakthrough of the DC2/3 aircraft. Initial helicopter progress followed a similar pattern but the commercial breakthrough is still awaited more than twenty years after the beginning of large-scale military procurement.

Type
Test Facilities for Helicopters
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 716 , August 1970 , pp. 643 - 649
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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