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Analogue Computer Development with Reference to Helicopter Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2023

B H Venning
B H Venning*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics Southampton University
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The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the Author, said that Mr VENNING had spent from 1941 to 1946 in the Royal Signals on mobile communications and from 1946 to 1949 at the City and Guilds Engineering College From 1949 to 1952 he had been in the Royal Naval Scientific Service, working on underwater acoustics From 1952 to 1955 Mr Venning had been at the College of Technology, University of Manchester, as a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering In 1955 he joined the University of Southampton in the Department of Electronics where, in addition to lecturing in electronics he was undertaking a research contract for the Ministry of Supply basically on the subject of his present paper

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Research Article
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The Journal of the Helicopter Association of Great Britain , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1957 , pp. 77 - 96
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1957

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Footnotes

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This work has been carried out under a research grant from the Ministry of Supply, to whom thanks are also due for establishing contacts between the University and the Helicopter Industry Acknowledgments must also be made to Dr H Fuchs, now of Blackburn and General Aircraft Ltd, who constructed the original computer, to Mr T Ciastula of Saunders-Roe Ltd, to Messrs R M Howarth and C H Jones of Bristol Aircraft Ltd, Mr J M Harrison of Westland Aircraft Ltd and Professor Hemp and Mr D Howe of the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, all of whom have assisted in supplying data relating to helicopter design

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