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Editorial for Bristol 75 Anniversary Issue

This online collection commemorates 75 years of aerospace engineering teaching and research at the University of Bristol.  However, interactions with the aircraft industry started long before the Department was formed in 1946 1, for instance when in 1918 the University began teaching a class in Aircraft Manufacturing . 

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The Light Beyond the Clouds

Beyond the dark clouds there is light. Is this a topical description for the past, present and future of our industry? In the past, it was our ambition to travel fast and above the weather that inspired the development of the jet engine by its inventors, Sir Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

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An investigation of the fatal 1985 Manchester Airport B737 fire

The paper, ‘Numerical investigation of the fatal 1985 Manchester Airport B737 fire’ published in the Aeronautical Journal, Vol 121, Number 1237, pp 287-319, 2017 by Edwin R Galea, Zhaozhi Wang,  and Fuchen Jia, provides an explanation for why 55 people lost their lives in the B737 fire at Manchester airport in 1985.…

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