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Some Thoughts on Aeronautical Research and Design
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
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“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.
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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.
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