Abstract
AN Interdepartmental Committee on the Establishment of a School of Aeronautical Science was set up in October 1943, under the chairmanship of Sir A. H. Roy Fedden, who had just returned from a mission to the United States, where he had studied, among other matters, the system of aeronautical education in that country. The members of the committee dealing with the scheme were Sir A. H. Roy Fedden (chairman); Sir Alan Barlow, Treasury; Commdr. M. S. Slattery, Admiralty; Mr. W. P. Hildred, Air Ministry; Air Marshal Sir Ralph Sorley, Ministry of Aircraft Production; Sir John Stephenson, Dominions Office; Dr. W. Abbott, Ministry of Education; Sir Charles Darwin, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Sir B. Melvill Jones, Aeronautical Research Committee; and Sir Walter Moberly, University Grants Committee. Detailed memoranda and oral evidence were given by representatives of the various interests concerned, a list of which is added to the report*.
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A College of Aeronautics. Nature 154, 621–623 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154621a0
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