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Flight Testing of Helicopters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2023

F. O’Hara
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On behalf of our Association, I have pleasure in extending the warmest welcome to our guests, and in particular to our guest of honour who is to lecture to us on the Flight Testing of Helicopters.

Mr. Frank O’Hara is an M.A. of both Cambridge and Edinburgh, and is a Principal Scientific Officer of the Ministry of Supply stationed at the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment at Beaulieu.

He joined A.F.E.E. in 1942 on leaving his previous appointment at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Helensburgh. During the last 8 years the A.F.E.E. have increasingly looked to him for the solution of their research problems and as a fertile source of inspiration in overcoming the many difficult practical problems which the Establishment has found.

In the course of its work the A.F.E.E. has been responsible for developing the technique, and the necessary background of theoretical and practical knowledge, required for the flight testing of helicopters for the Ministry of Supply.

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The Journal of the Helicopter Association of Great Britain , Volume 4 , Issue 1: April-May-June 1950 , June 1950 , pp. 2 - 23
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1950

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