The impact of the women of the Technical Section of the Admiralty Air Department on the structural integrity of aircraft during World War One

Autor:	Tony Royle
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	History Battle Operations research General Mathematics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Structural integrity First world war Aeronautics Section (archaeology) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0503 education 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common
ISSN:	0315-0860
Popis:	In 1917, as the air war raged in Europe, some of Britain's finest mathematicians, engineers and scientists engaged in their own battle to understand the fundamentals of aerodynamics and aircraft construction. In London, Wing Commander Alec Ogilvie led the Technical Section of the Admiralty Air Department, which included a number of individuals dedicated to addressing aircraft structural issues; amongst them were three women, Hilda Hudson, Letitia Chitty and Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave. In this article I describe the aeronautical landscape in Britain during the second decade of the 1900s, the place of these women within it, and their contributions to the structural integrity of early, British military aircraft.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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