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UNDER the stimulus of war the development of aircraft was marvellously rapid, so much so that it not infrequently happened that by the time a squadron of aeroplanes of new and improved design was ready to take the air it was regarded as little else than an obsolete type by its own designers. But with a rate of wastage so high as war conditions made inevitable, one had to get accustomed to such an advance every six months as only the new mental attitude to mechanical developments that the war forced upon us could grasp without surprise. All this is now past. The factories are largely turned to fresh uses, and their skilful staffs scattered to new fields of labour. Even the scientific force of the Government has for the most part returned to the Universities from which it came-notably Cambridge and Oxford.
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The Need for Aircraft Research. Nature 104, 589–590 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104589a0
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