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The Use of the Wind Channel to Aircraft Designers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2016

Extract

A technical discussion on the use of the wind channel to aircraft designers was held in the Library on Thursday, January 8th, 1925, when the following were present:—Wing Commander T. R. Cave-Browne-Cave (in the chair), O. T. Gnosspelius, Griffith Brewer, W. O. Manning, C. C. Walker, H. N. Wylie, G. T. R. Hill, A. P. Rowe, A. A. Hammond, B. W. Townshend, R. Reynolds, G. P. Douglas, J. S. L. Oswald, W. H. Sayers, T. M. Barlow, R. McKinnon Wood, N. A. V. Piercy, V. Gaunt, R. K. Pierson, F. L. Richards, A. H. Tiltman, S. H. Evans, N. S. Norway and A. V. Roe.

In opening the discussion, Mr. C. C. Walker said that the wind channel should be a means of supplying a mass of systematic data which will indicate the direction in which promising full-scale experiments may be made.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1925

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