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The Royal Aeronautical Society's Data Sheets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

H. L. Cox
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The origin of the Society's Stressed Skin Data Sheets was certainly my own paper, R and M No. 1553; it embarrasses me not at all to put it so. In 1930 the Structures Sub-committee of the ARC asked for a summary of the present state of knowledge regarding sheet metal construction, and the chairman, (Sir) William Farren, directed me as secretary to prepare a draft. I did so—the draft was discussed by the Sub-committee, revised and amended and finally in 1933 published over my name. To me the paper was a chore, albeit a welcome one, and all I myself really got out of it in the end was the realisation that I could do with a little more Anglo-Saxon: “What we know about …” would now be my title.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 661 , January 1966 , pp. 35 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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References

* Data Sheets were in fact prepared by the Society in Jan. 1927; one is reproduced opposite, with one distributed by the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers in 1921.—Ed.

* The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. Chapter V. Oliver Wendell Holmes.