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The Future of Aeronautics—Dreams and Realities

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John E. Allen
John E. Allen*
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Hawker Siddeley Aviation Limited, Kingston upon Thames
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From balloons to supersonic flight; from elementary theory to man powered flight; from Jules Verne to a foreseeable landing on the moon, all this in a hundred years. It would take a bold and powerful imagination to make an accurate forecast of the developments and achievements of the next hundred years.

HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, KG, HonFRAeS

Foreword to the RAeS Centenary Journal

January 1966

The first part of this title is the name of the Royal Aeronautical Society's own book with which I was concerned, as an exercise in long term studies, stimulated by the Centenary Year. The second part was added especially for the lecture as it seemed a concise way of relating long term speculations with some practical restraints which have to be circumvented too, if aeronautics is to progress.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 75 , Issue 729 , September 1971 , pp. 587 - 609
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1971 

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