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Early Research at Farnborough and Felixstowe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Extract

The Early experimental work at the Royal Aircraft Factory, South Farnborough (as it was called then) has been described by a number of people. There was no organisation in the First World War, as there was in the Second, for the use of scientific man power. The gravitation of scientists to the Royal Aircraft Factory can, I imagine, only be explained by the attraction of working in an unexplored field. The results of the impact of this remarkable group on the future of aeronautics in this country were enormous.

My own relatively late appearance at Farnborough, towards the end of 1916, was the result of a series of accidents.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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