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Control Surface Design in Theory and Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

M.B. Morgan and
H.H.B.M. Thomas
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A meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society was held in the lecture hall of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Storey's Gate, St. James's Park, Westminster, London, S.W.1, on Thursday, March 1st, 1945, at which a paper on “Control Surface Design in Theory and Practice ” was read by Mr. M. B. Morgan, M.A., F.R.Ae.S., and Mr. H. H. B. M. Thomas, A.F.R.Ae.S.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 416 , August 1945, pp. 431 - 510
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1945

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