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Some Current Problems Facing the Aircraft Designer*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. C. Floyd
J. C. Floyd*
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Advanced Projects Group, Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd
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While the subject of this paper is concerned with problems somewhat outside the scope of those which existed in the days of the late Roy Chadwick, nothing absorbed Chadwick's interest more than a seemingly intangible aircraft problem, and I am sure that had he been alive today he would have been deeply involved in the search for solutions to them.

He was without doubt a man of great talent, with an intuitive flair for design, and I join the many members of his staff who deem it a great privilege to have been associated with him for many years; and am honoured to have been asked to present this Memorial Lecture.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 65 , Issue 609 , September 1961 , pp. 613 - 632
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1961

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This paper formed the basis of the Sixth Chadwick Memorial Lecture, given to the Manchester Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society on 15th March 1961

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