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Seventy years of flight instruments and displays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. A. Chorley
R. A. Chorley*
Affiliation:
Smiths Industries Limited, Aviation Division
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It may be asked why I have chosen the subject of instrumentation for this Folland Memorial Lecture, rather than one more closely allied to that of aircraft design— the craft of which we remember Henry Folland as a master. In part I believe the two subjects are closely related, and that a study of the way in which instrumentation has developed indicates many respects in which this development has paralleled, or depended upon, the various developments which have occurred in airframe design.

There is no indication in the admirable biographical lecture on H. P. Folland presented to this Society by his son, as to any special views he may have held on the subject of flight instrumentation. One thing is sure, however : his working life spanned the era in which there was a fundamental change in the views held by aviators about instruments.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 80 , Issue 788 , August 1976 , pp. 323 - 342
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1976 

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