Monthly Archive: November 2024

Nov 12

Physicists and the evolution of WW1 combat aircraft – an essay

I was asked to contribute to the 10th Anniversary Commemorative Volume of The History and Philosophy of Physics Centre at Oxford, drawing on a lecture that I gave at the annual HAPP conference about ten years ago: ‘Warfare and wind tunnel: engineers, physicists, and the evolution of combat aircraft 1914-1918’ Journal of Physics: Conference Series …

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