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The Second Lanchester Memorial Lecture

Aeroelasticity—Retrospect and Prospect

Part of: RAeS Lanchester Lecture Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. R. Collar
A. R. Collar*
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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We look before and after,

And pine for what is not.

—Shelley.

I am very appreciative of the honour that has been accorded me in being invited to deliver the Second Lanchester Memorial Lecture: appreciative, but all too conscious of my own inadequacy. This is especially true, since in the first Lecture we heard a tribute to a very great man from another such: and the prospect of following von Karman to this lectern is one to deter perhaps all but the most foolhardy. Since von Karman’s address discussed very fully the contributions of Lanchester to aeronautics, little is left for subsequent lecturers on this subject, and I have therefore chosen to speak of a problem which has been my special interest and concern throughout my professional life, namely, aeroelasticity—a field in which, as in so many others, Lanchester was a pioneer.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 577 , January 1959 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1959

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