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1954
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lejuly 1954 69 PRESENTATION DAY AT CRANFIELD Sir Victor Goddard Completes Three-year Term as College of Aeronautics Principal Sir R. Victor Goddard, K.C.B., C.B.E., M.A. THE award of diplomas in aeronautical science to 53 post - graduate students an Friday last marked the com pletion of the seventh two-year :ourse at the College of Aero nautics, Cranfield. On this Dccasion, news was given of the forthcoming departure of the Principal, Sir Victor Goddard; sf the establishment of a new lectureship in industrial engin eering sponsored by the Mutual Security organization; and of the formation of addi tional committees in order to bring the governors into closer touch with the College. In his report, Sir Victor Goddard first welcomed Sir James Helmore (Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Supply), who, deputizing for the Minister himself, was to present the diplomas. Sir Victor went on to express thanks "to the staff of the college, for their devotion and creative enterprise; to the students, for their painstaking and lively co-operativeness; to the governors, for their continuing pursuit of the well-being and the objectives of the college, their support for the many difficult and compli cated projects that are put to them, and their unremunerated efforts to guide and develop the college; and finally to the Ministries of Education, of Works and of Supply, and to the aircraft industry, for their many services." The Principal continued, "If I may add a personal note, I would say that I have deeply appreciated the opportunity I have had for sharing in this great enterprise. While still serving in the Royal Air Force, I was invited to follow on, where my dis tinguished predecessor Mr. Relf left off, to preside for a few years over the growth of the college in numbers, activities and public esteem. Those few years have passed all too quickly. It may be thought that it would have been of greater service to the college had I elected to remain Principal while a full- time successor was found to take my place, but I believe that it is best that the post should be seen to be vacant so that no man of eminence who might be invited to have the honour that I have had should feel compunction about being the cause of my going. Meanwhile I am sincerely glad that the responsibilities of Principal are to be held temporarily by Mr. B. W. A. Dickson who, as one of the deputy chairmen of the board of governors, has won both confidence and affection . . ." The concluding part of Sir Victor's speech referred to the graduating students: "The men who will shortly present them selves for their hard-won awards are the men who, with others who went before and come after, will make the college stable in the way that matters most. . . Longevity is not one of my ambitions so I shall hope that one of them will not take too long in qualifying for appointment to the post of Principal! A few years after that happens the College will, I think, have become its real self. I hope to see it then." The chairman of the board of governors, Sir Frederick Handley Page, spoke next. He described how, to bring the governors into closer touch with the work of the College, three additional committees had been appointed during the year. They dealt with education, finance and establishments, and administration respec tively, and their respective chairmen were Sir Ben Lockspeiser, Sir Reginald Verdon Smith and Mr. B. W. A. Dickson, who had each been appointed deputy chairmen of the main board. The chairman then referred to the departure of the Principal te the end of the academic year on completion of his three-year appointment. "During his term of office," Sir Frederick said, Sir Victor has made the excellent work of the College well known to many important people outside who were entirely ignorant about it and had not grasped the significance of the Place of the College in the teaching of technology." The College Was also sorry to lose Professor Young to Queen Mary College. After mentioning the planned expansion of the aircraft electrical section and the success of the Work Study School, the chairman announced in conclusion that a gift of £50,000 from the U.S.A., under the Mutual Security organization, had been received for the establishment of a lectureship in industrial engineering, to which Mr. W. H. Walker had been appointed. After presenting the diplomas and prizes, Sir James Helmore emphasized in his address that the Ministry of Supply was extremely interested in the products—both men and research work—of Cranfield. The nine M.o.S. research contracts at present being followed at the College included investigations into the use of freon in wind tunnels, and the problem of jet noise. The vote of thanks to Sir James Helmore was expressed by the vice-chairman of the board. Sir Harold Roxbee-Cox. In the list of awards which follows, the subject of each graduating students' thesis is indicated: — DIPLOMAS WITH DISTINCTION Aerodynamics.—J. B. Gilder, B.Sc.(Eng.): Effect of a tailplane on the longitudinal stability of a helicopter; R. D. Milne, B.Sc.(Eng.): Flutter of wings of low aspect-ratio; J. Sandford, B.Sc.(Eng.): A review of existing theories of the compressible turbulent boundary layer; F. G. Willox, B.Sc.(Eng.): Optimum configuration for a given supersonic aircraft. Aircraft Design.—Lt. La V. W. Brown, Jr., B.S.(Elect.Eng.), U.S.N.: Problems associated with stress diffusion in the vicinity of chordwise cut-outs in the wing; A. E. Heiba, B.Sc.(Mech.Eng.): Vibration charac teristics of a cantilever plate with swept-back leading edge; Lt. (E) C. Preston, R.N.: Bearings under high pressure at low rotational speeds. Aircraft Propulsion.—F/L. E. T. Curran, B.Sc.(Eng.): Secondary combustion in fast-moving airstreams; S/L. H. J. M. Londeau, B.A.Sc, R.C.A.F.: Scaling of combustion-chamber test results; S/L. I. T. A. Murchie: Inert-gas generation for purging fuel tanks; Lt. (E) R. G. Price, R.N.: Heat transfer in rocket tubes. Aircraft Economics and Production.—C. J. Norbury: Application of memo-motion to industrial operation. Aircraft Electrical Engineering.—F/L. F. Mobey, B.Sc.(Met.): Corrosion of silver-tungsten contact materials under tropical con ditions. DIPLOMAS Aerodynamics.—G. A. Cropper, B.Sc.(Eng.): Use of fixed wings to reduce disc loading; G. T. Downer: Effect of wing plan-form on the longitudinal stability of a supersonic aircraft; R. B. Erb., B.Sc.(Eng.): Effect of conduction of heat within a body on temperature distribution and rate of heat-transfer; R. C. Hastings, B.Sc.(Eng-): Forces on yawed bodies of revolution; G. W. Haynes: Wave-drag of swept untapered wings of arbitrary section; G. D. O. Humphreys, B.Sc.(Eng.): Development of sections for non-lifting wings, swept behind the Mach lines, having a minimum wave-drag; G. A. C. Searle: Choice of wing plan-form and section for high-speed commercial aircraft; Lt-Cdr. D. G. Turnbull, M.A.: Flight-testing methods for estimating stability characteristics for supersonic aircraft. Aircraft Design.—J. A. H. Bailie: Theoretical and experimental investigation into stress distribution in a swept-back multi-web wing; N. A. Barfield: Investigation of output circuit damping and impedance testing of a particular hydraulic-powered flying-control system; W. Brookes: Buckling in compression of curved panels of honeycomb sandwich construction; F/L. G. R. D. Calder: Stress distribution in a cantilever plate; F/L. S. Chennakeshu, B.Sc, I.A.F.: Accuracy of the photo-elastic stress-coat technique; G. Davies: Flight resonance testing—a technique of investigation; D. A. Drane: Buckling of thin, unstiffened circular cylinders under pure bending; P. G. Hardie-Bick, B.A.: Root constraint in a swept wing with ribs parallel to line of flight; F. E. Jarlett: Pure bending tests on a series of multi-cell beams; E. J. Phillips: An investigation of a tapered box beam. Aircraft Propulsion.—P. N. Dent, B.Sc.(Eng.): Three-dimensional flow investigations, using a water compressor; C. T. Ebel: Studies of turbojet control system; P. W. Hill: Performance of "reversed-intake" supersonic exhaust nozzle; F. G. Maccabee: Compressor-blade vibration; J. Rousseau, B.Sc.A.: Heat transfer with boundary-layer cooling; J. H. Sargeant: Causes of unstable combustion; J. P. Spillane: Development of an analogue comnutor for gas-turbine performance analysis; Maj. W. R. Stephens, B.S.(Aero. Eng.), U.S.A.F.: Design and application of expendable'turbojet engines; T. V. Vareed, B.A., B.Sc.(Eng-): Pressure expulsion of fluids from fuel tanks; D. C. Withers: Performance of fuels for ramjets with reference to altitude conditions. Aircraft Economics and Production.—A. A. A. Abdin, B.Sc.(Mech. Eng.): Critical survey of cutting theory; D. H. Blyther: Effect of heat treatment on magnetic properties of an iron-cobalt-vanadium alloy; B. Butterfield: Machinability of Nimonic 90; D. Fletcher: Manufacture of unsymmetrical integral structures; J. T. D. Holt: Machining characteristics of a Titanium 150A forging, using single-point carbide-tipped tools; J. Jagaciak: Effect of subsonic and sonic vibrations during solidification on the mechanical properties of turbine blades cast in H.R. Crown Max. and Nimonic C.75; R. N. Kashyap: Economic aspects of materials-handling in industry; Lt. H. S. Kennedy, B.S.(Aero.Eng.), U.S.N.: Development of creep-testing machines for spheroidal graphite cast iron; K. G. Lane: Batch-ordering quantities in the aircraft industry. Aircraft Electrical Engineering.—F/L. P. R. Graham, B.Eng.(Aero.), R.A.A.F.: Measurement and improvement of performance of a drag- cup generator; P. A. Harper: Development of a self-balancing Wheat-stone bridge system for a 600-channel strain-recorder; J. W. Tuson: A synthetic trainer for hyperbolic navigation. PRIZES Governors' prize, S/L. I. T. A. Murchie; Principal's prize, C. J. Norbury; Senate prize, Lt. La V. W. Brown, Jr., U.S.N.; Woods of Colchester prize (Aerodynamics), R. D. Milne; Woods of Colchester prize (Aircraft Electricity), F/L. F. Mobey.
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