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William “W. E.” Williams
Head of School in 1937<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A major step in space travel and exploration is upon us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 30th of May 2020 at 20:22 BST, SpaceX is attempting the first commercial manned spaceflight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may not realise that work done at Bangor University was fundamental in developing the mathematical models for flight dynamics and aerospace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A piece of research published by and G. H. Bryan and W. E. Williams entitled “The longitudinal stability of aerial gliders<\/a>“, said that “The problem of artificial flight is hardly likely to be solved until the conditions of longitudinal stability of an aeroplane system have been reduced to a matter of pure mathematical calculation<\/em>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simply put, this means that in order to fly, we needed the maths to keep an aeroplane pointing in the right direction whilst it turns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Hartley Bryan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This prediction was made in June 1903 and published on the 7th of January 1904, three weeks after the Wright brothers’ first flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan and Willams’s work is discussed in NASA’s “Computers Take Flight<\/a>“, which discussed the history of NASA’s fly-by-wire project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan’s later work in 1911 “Stability in Aviation<\/a>” influenced many important pieces of work including “The Mathematical Theory of Rotated and Unrotated Rockets<\/a>” in 1949 and “Stability in aeronautics<\/a>” in 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These “longitudinal stability” flight models have been essential in stabilising rockets and even lunar landers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the SpaceX launch here: https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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