Person Young; Alec David (1913 - 2005) Young Alec David 1913 - 2005 British Male London, England 15/08/1913 19130815 27/01/2005 20050127

Engineer Aeronautical engineering Education: Caius College, Cambridge, Wrangler in Mathematical Tripos in 1935 Career: Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough (1936-1946), during WW2 worked on solution to stalling problem in Hampden bomber, developed boundary layer theories in connection with flight of aircraft, worked on safe landing of troop carrying gliders for D Day, sent to Germany after the war to salvage work from aeronautucal research centres there; appointed Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department of Aerodynamics, College of Aeronautics, Cranfield (1946); appointed Professor of Aerodynamics, Cranfield (1950); elected Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society (1951); Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen Mary College, London (1954-1978); worked on accident investigations of two de Havilland Comet crashes of 1954 and on Munich air crash of 6 February 1958 in which 23 passengers died, 8 of whom were members of Manchester United football team returning from a match in Belgrade, vindicated pilot Captain James Thain; Dean of Faculty of Engineering, London University (1962-1966); Vice Principal, Queen Mary College, London (1966-1978); Chairman, Aeronautical Research Council (1968-1971); Chairman of Board of Von Karman Institute, Brussels based European aeronautical school (1964-1993); continued to teach at Queen Mary College until 1994. Honours: OBE 1964 Son of Russian Jewish immigrants who had fled the pogroms; married (1936) Doran Caplan (died 1970); married (1971) Rena Waldmann Fellow 15/03/1973 59 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs 2007, Volume 53, pp 401-418 Obituary in The Times (3 February 2005) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 15 Aug 1913 - NA4118 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 05/06/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes e42995bf-a986-445c-add7-2138a47fee95