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The Initiation of Projects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

B. D. Blackwell
B. D. Blackwell*
Affiliation:
Small Engine Division, Bristol Siddeley Engines Limited
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In providing the introductory speech to the section of this Symposium which deals with The Initiation of Projects, I have both the advantages and disadvantages of the opening batsman. My advantage is that I can set the scene in the manner which suits my purpose and this, I propose, quite unashamedly to do and beg the Chairman’s forgiveness if I overlap too much.

First I want to give you two quotations from recent presidential addresses to this Society and to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. I found them both peculiarly relevant to the issues we are met to discuss.

First, the Duke of Edinburgh in his recent Centenary Address to the Royal Aeronautical Society said, “Yet we all believe that it is ridiculous for a country which is supposed to be well advanced in engineering technology, to admit it cannot cope with aeronautics—the most advanced technology of them all.“

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 71 , Issue 677 , May 1967, pp. 330 - 334
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1967

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