College of Aeronautics

Abstract

THE College of Aeronautics, which is to be opened at Cranfield, Bedfordshire on October 15, 1946, will treat advanced aeronautical education in a way which differs very considerably from that which has been followed in the past in British universities which have a department of aeronautics. In such universities post-graduate study in aeronautical subjects has been mainly of an academic character, and those students who have afterwards gone into industry have had to obtain their practical experience later, greatly helped by the sound general scientific or engineering background they had first acquired. The new College is intended to provide both the sound theoretical background and the practical training, and to show the relation between theory and practice as clearly as possible. It is hoped, in this way, to build up a centre of aeronautical learning of the highest standard, and to help to maintain British pre-eminence in the aeronautical world by training men who will ultimately become leaders of thought, whether in the industry, the research establishments, or in other places.