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The Spacing of Aircraft Under High Density Approach Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. A. Whiteley
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The 850th Lecture to be given before the Royal Aeronautical Society was delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George Street, London, S.W.1, on 20th March 1952. Major G. P. Bulman, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S. (Past President) presided and introduced the Lecturer, Group Captain E. A. Whiteley, D.F.C., B.A., A.F.R.Ae.S., Royal Air Force, who was attending the Joint Services Staff College and who, in addition to being a pilot, had qualified as an R.A.F. Engineering and Navigation Specialist and also held a British Civil Airline Pilot's Transport Licence and a Flight Navigator's Licence.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 56 , Issue 500 , August 1952 , pp. 573 - 618
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1952

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