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Looking Forward

Prolegomena for a Detailed Study of the Future of British Civil Aviation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

H. Roxbee Cox
H. Roxbee Cox*
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Air Registration Board
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The list of the Wilbur Wright lecturers is a long and distinguished one, and I feel it a great honour to have been asked to join this eminent company. I was invited just before Christmas, 1939, to address you to-night on the future of British civil aviation. I felt then that though only with great difficulty would it be possible to produce a lecture under war conditions, the invitation must be accepted, firstly because no greater compliment can be paid an aeronautical engineer, and secondly, to support the Council's policy of continuing the Wilbur Wright lectures, which were not interrupted by the last war, through this one.

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The 1940 (28th) Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 357 , September 1940 , pp. 681 - 754
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1940

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