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Vortices and turbulence

Part of:RAeS Lanchester Lecture Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Geoffrey M. Lilley
Geoffrey M. Lilley*
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Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton
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Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight we pay homage to Frederick William Lanchester, Doctor of Laws, Fellow of the Royal Society who, having become interested in mechanical flight at the age of 21, while studying at South Kensington in 1889, entered the field of aeronautics in 1892 and continued to aid its development until his death in 1946. His great contributions to aeronautics were the discovery of the theory of the vortex motion of the lifting wing and that the key to successful flight lay in reducing the skin friction, which was far from being the negligible quantity that others such as Langley, whose name is forever remembered through NASA Langley Field, had stated earlier. All this was in 1893 to 1894 some ten years before the first flight of the Wright brothers. When asked later how he had successfully derived his great and momentous theory Lanchester simply stated; ‘it was a matter of logical deduction helped by experiment’. He vigorously defended his work as not being empirical but was soundly based on hydrodynamic theory.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 87 , Issue 870 , December 1983, pp. 371 - 393
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