The Royal Aeronautical Society: Part 3 - First flight

摘要

With powered flight achieved at last, many more eminent scientists and engineers appeared on the lists of members of the Council - Prof G H Bryan, W H Dines and Sir Napier Shaw the meteorologists, and Lord Rayleigh, all members of the Royal Society. The first authentic account of the flights of the Wright brothers to be published in the UK, 'With the Power Flyer', was contributed by Orville Wright and published in the April 1904 Journal. Names familiar today, such as F W Lanchester, J W Dunne, Handley Page, Moore-Brabazon, Santos-Dumont, appeared in the publications of the Society.