Engineering Nerds' Corner::::::

[Dan4th]

For those of you with an interest and a little time
to spend, here's a paper submitted by Kelly Johnson
in 1941 PRIOR to US becoming officially "at war" with
Germany. I found it interesting and prophetic.

http://pdf.aiaa.org/downloads/TOCPDFs/04_22-29.pdf

Not bad for a slimey Murkin, eh????????

Dan4th

[Mackrick]

Thats a good read Mr D.
Just skimmed through it will have a proper read later.
Kelly J was ahead of his time thats for sure.

[Dan4th]

It's great to look back in retrospect -- 68 YEARS!!!!!
And HE was only about 30 or so at the time. It's very
obvious in the first paragraphs that he held the British
Aircraft Industry in very high regard -- as well as the
Germans! No Japanese mentioned......

It's because the BIG WAR hadn't quite started for us that
he was able to say all of these things with little or no
censorship, I guess.....

Oh, and he and I share the same birthday, btw.....

Dan4th

[Saracenman]

blimey Danf, what a find!

too much for my meagre braincell to take in really - I'll give it a proper look later

all those pie-charts

[Mackrick]

mmm pies

[Saracenman]

[Dan4th]

I think my favo(u)rite brief quote from this
is as follows:

"Any means of transportation having a speed
of 400 m.p.h. is inevitably complicated."

Irony in the obvious...

D.

[Saracenman]

superb understated use of the English language!

[RLN]

There's no doubt about his genius.I'm glad it was in Layman's terms though.