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Some European collaborative research programmes in aerodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. Küchemann
D. Küchemann*
Affiliation:
Royal Aircraft Establishment
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Collaboration or co-operation is variously described as helpfulness, joint effort, team work, working together, sink or swim together, ‘a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together’. It implies cheerful consent and eagerness, cordiality and goodwill. All these are characteristics inherent in the human make-up. Men learnt early on that they could, and had to, specialise and share the work and that they could, and had to, trust one another. These characteristics are probably largely responsible for the survival of our species. In what I want to say, collaboration means all these things. My main theme will be that these characteristics must now motivate us to ensure the survival of aerospace research and its application to keep European aviation alive and competitive. All my remarks will be confined to research matters.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 79 , Issue 775 , July 1975 , pp. 299 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1975 

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References

The 22nd Barnwell Memorial Lecture presented at Bristol on 12th March 1975. Paper No. 250.

page no 299 note * See T. E. Allibone. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 20, 162, 1965.

page no 300 note * The work of this Committee has been described in Lectures to the Society by M. J. Lighthill, Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 64, 375, 1960; and more recently by Sir Morien Morgan, The Aeronautical Journal, 76, 1, 1972.

page no 301 note * G. S. Hislop, The Aeronautical Journal, 78, 117, April 1974; Anon, Interavia, 29, 631, July 1974.

page no 302 note * See R. P. Probert, Aerospace, 1, 12, July 1974

page no 303 note * Although the series of exercises I have described is quite haphazard, I am tempted to remind you of their dates and number of jobs worked on: 1943 (aerodynamics of propulsion), 27 ; 1957 (slender wings), about 100; 1968 (hypersonic aerodynamics), about 150; 1971 (viscous flows), about 260; 1973 (tunnel testing techniques), about 320.