Commercial Operation of Helicopters

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (692) ◽  
pp. 667-683
Author(s):  
A. E. Bristow
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Blade Root ◽  
Helicopter Flight ◽  
Commercial Operation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bending Stresses ◽  
Rotating Wing

It is a great privilege for me to give the Eighth Cierva Memorial Lecture and to pay tribute and honour to Juan de la Cierva who, more than any other inventor, was responsible for bringing into reality the principle of rotating wing flight. Cierva was an inventor of indefatigable industry, patience and genius. His faith in the Autogiro and the future of the rotating wing aircraft will be remembered for ever. The invention by Cierva of the articulated rotor with flapping and drag hinges to relieve bending stresses at the blade root, and in the chord-wise plane, provided the solution to true helicopter flight which become a reality in 1936.

The Future of Rotorcraft and Hovercraft

1967 ◽  
Vol 71 (673) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Eric Mensforth
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Series Production ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rotary Wings ◽  
Sound Foundation ◽  
Rotating Wing ◽  
Do So

It is a privilege to pay tribute through this Cierva Memorial Lecture to a great pioneer and an honour to do so in this, the Society's Centenary Year. In 1918, when 24 years of age, Cierva designed and built a three-engined aeroplane which stalled during a turn and, after spinning, crashed. He recognised the limitations of the conventional aircraft and turned to the rotating wing.Westland's association with rotary wings began with the five-seater 600 hp Cierva C.20, built in 1934. Their first series production rotorcraft, the S.51, to the design of Igor Sikorsky, came some 14 years later. With the passage of further time, bringing some successes and some frustrations, a sound foundation has indeed been laid for future progress.

Just design: Healthy prisons and the architecture of hope

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Jewkes
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Healthcare Environments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Lecture

This article develops the notion that institutional places and spaces are layered with meaning and that their architecture and design have a profound psychological and physiological influence on those who live and work within them. Mindful of the intrinsic link between ‘beauty’ and ‘being just’, the article explores the potential ‘healing’ or rehabilitative role of penal aesthetics. As many countries modernise their prison estates, replacing older facilities that are no longer fit-for-purpose with new, more ‘efficient’ establishments, this article discusses examples of international best (and less good) practice in penal and hospital settings. It reflects on what those who commission and design new prisons might learn from pioneering design initiatives in healthcare environments and asks whether the philosophies underpinning the ‘architecture of hope’ that Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres exemplify could be incorporated into prisons of the future. The article was originally presented as a public lecture in the annual John V Barry memorial lecture series at the University of Melbourne on 24 November 2016.

The Casson Memorial Lecture 1992: Always a Little Further

1992 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 296-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Averil M Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Health Psychology ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Graphic Representations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Education Of Students

This lecture was given at the College of Occupational Therapists' Annual Conference at Loughborough University of Technology on 17 July 1992. The theme combines personal views about the opportunities and threats currently facing the profession along with consideration of personal strategies for coping with change and how the education of students can help prepare them for the future. The text was accompanied by graphic representations and personal photographs of ‘adventuring’, together with posters prepared by second year students at Queen Margaret College as part of the health psychology syllabus.

The Domain of the Helicopter

1954 ◽  
Vol 58 (526) ◽  
pp. 663-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raoul Hafner
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Rotating Wing ◽  
First Time ◽  
Natural Impulse

When accepting the invitation to present the Seventh Louis Blèriot Memorial lecture, the author was deeply conscious not only of the honour which was bestowed upon him by this invitation but, in an equal measure, of the responsibility which attached to it.For the first time one of the eminent memorial lectures is devoted to the rotating wing; the helicopter has been raised to the level of discussion of the great aeronautical papers.The natural impulse of the gentler sex when faced with a great occasion is invariably: “how shall one dress?” To the author, a somewhat similar problem became manifest: how can the helicopter, this new-comer, best be “ dressed?” How should it be presented, so as to make not only a good impression but also a full and, above all, a true impression?

The Development of a Low Floor Citybus—Volvo B10L

1995 ◽  
Vol 209 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
J McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Vehicle Concept ◽  
Engineering Process ◽  
Simultaneous Engineering ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Product Verification

For the 1995 Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture the author describes the background behind the development of the Volvo B10L low floor citybus. This includes the initial vehicle concept through the simultaneous engineering process to production start, including methods used in the product verification. Views are expressed regarding the future direction of low floor products.

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