Some Modern Methods of Research in the Problems of Flight

As a guest of the Royal Aeronautical Society, I wish first to express my sincere appreciation of the opportunity to join those others who have appeared before you in years past to present the Wilbur Wright Memorial Lectures. To those of us who are primarily concerned with the scientific aspects of aviation this continuing series of lectures, now nearly as old as the art of human flight itself, is the finest tribute that could be offered in honour of the accomplishments of the Wright brothers. It is on this account that I feel most sincerely the honour and privilege that has been granted me through your invitation to present the Twenty-seventh Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture. The title—“ Some Modern Methods of Research in the Problems of Flight ”— is, I confess, somewhat ambiguous. At the time it was selected, some months ago, several investigations then in progress gave promise of results sufficientlyinteresting to be included.

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