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The Aeronautical Research Scene -Goals, Methods and Accomplishments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Hugh L. Dryden
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Prizes were presented and The Thirty-seventh Wilbur Wright Lecture was delivered before The Royal Aeronautical Society at the Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W.l, on Thursday 28th April 1949. Dr. H. Roxbee Cox, B.Sc., D.I.C., F.I.Ae.S., F.R.Ae.S., President, presided at the meeting.

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37th Wilbur Wright Lecture
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 53 , Issue 463 , July 1949, pp. 623 - 666
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1949

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