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AVIATION is now entering upon a new and intensely interesting phase—one which will call for every scientific resource at our command. The materials of construction are changing: wood is giving place to metal. The engine proves to have most unexpected possibilities ahead of it through the in crease of intake pressure; whilst the very lifting structure itself may possibly change, for some purposes at least, from linear motion to rotary. Now in aeronautical work there can be no doubt that scientific studies have been considerably stimulated by problems which have arisen directly from aeronautical en gineering. The thought of those physicists who have in recent years done such brilliant work on the mathe matical theory of fluid motion was stimulated in no small degree by the results obtained either in the wind channels of our aerodynamic laboratories or in free flight on the full scale.
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WIMPERIS, H. The Relationship of Physics to Aeronautical Research1. Nature 117, 860–862 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117860a0
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