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RefNoPB/4/13/4
Previous numbersD.212
LevelItem
TitleCorrespondence and papers re Aircraft Research Committee.
Date1948
DescriptionWith secretaries and members, covering meetings 24 February, 25 March, 25 May, 25 June, 27 July (cancelled), 21 September, 26 October, 15 December (postponed), and various changes in the membership of the Committee.

Blackett's Chairman's letter of 5 July to the A.R.C sets out the Committee's 'unanimous onclusion that an immediate start should be made, as an urgent matter, on research aircraft to fly at supersonic speeds, the aim being to reach a figure considerably greater than M=1'

Correspondents include: HM Garner, Sir Alan Hodgkin, JL Nayler, HL Stevens and Conrad Hal Waddington.
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6890Waddington; Conrad Hal (1905 - 1975)1905 - 1975
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