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Professor Sir Bennett Melvill Jones (1887-1975)Francis Mond Professorship of Aeronautical Engineering 1919-52Professor Bennett Melvill Jones gained his place in engineering history by demonstrating the importance of streamlining on the design of aircraft. Animated morphing of aircraft from World War I to those of
World War II:
The idea that a moving body passing through air or another fluid encounters resistance i.e. aerodynamic drag, had been known since the time of Aristotle (384-322 BC), but it took Melvill Jones to demonstrate the importance of this to the performance of aircraft. |