The Enigma of the Aerofoil: Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

by David Bloor

Book Overview

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the Germans, following Ludwig Prandtl in G ttingen, relied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226060950
• ISBN13: 9780226060958
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"