| 词条 | David Keith-Lucas |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = David Keith-Lucas | honorific_suffix = CBE, FRAeS | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | nationality = | citizenship = | birth_name = | birth_date = 25 March 1911 | birth_place = | death_date = {{d-da|6 April 1997|25 March 1911}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | education = Gresham's School, Holt | spouse = Keith Lucas | parents = | children = | module = {{ infobox engineering career | discipline = Aeronautical engineering | institutions = C.A. Parsons and Co. | practice_name = Short Brothers | employer = Harland Ltd | significant_projects = Short SB-5 research aircraft | significant_design = Short SB.1 | significant_advance = Aero-isoclinic wing | significant_awards = President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Honorary Doctorate Queen's University, Belfast, Commander of the Order of the British Empire }} | signature = | signature_alt = }} David Keith-Lucas {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|FRAeS}} (25 March 1911 – 6 April 1997) was an aeronautical engineer. Early lifeDavid Keith-Lucas was one of the sons of Alys Hubbard Lucas and Keith Lucas, who invented the first aeronautical compass. After the death of Keith Lucas in 1916, his wife Alys changed the family name, and, as Alys Keith-Lucas, edited a short book giving his background together with reminiscences of him and a list of his publications.[1] David Keith-Lucas was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read engineering. CareerDavid Keith-Lucas was an apprentice and engineer with C.A. Parsons and Co. from 1933 to 1940, then moved to the aerodynamics office of Short Brothers, Rochester, famous for their flying boats, becoming their chief aerodynamicist in 1944. From 1945 to 1965 he was with Short Brothers and Harland Ltd in Belfast, holding the posts of chief designer, technical director and research director. His work included research on swept-wings which culminated in the Short SB-5 research aircraft. Other projects included the Short Belfast heavy freighter, the Short Skyvan, and the SD-330 and SD-360 freight-commuter series. The Short SB.1 was a shoulder-wing, cantilever, tailless monoplane glider designed by David Keith-Lucas and Professor Geoffrey T.R. Hill and built by Shorts as a private research venture to test the concept of the aero-isoclinic wing; it was the first aircraft to incorporate this feature. After initial tests, at the end of which the SB.1 crash-landed as a result of problems while being towed behind the Short Sturgeon, the SB.1 was further developed into the Short SB.4 Sherpa, powered by two Blackburn Turbomeca Palas turbojet engines. In 1951, Keith-Lucas designed the Short SB-6 Seamew as a lightweight anti-submarine platform. While in Belfast, he served on the Senate of the Queen's University, Belfast. In 1965 he was appointed Professor of Aircraft Design at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, later the Cranfield Institute of Technology, and welded together the departments of Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design and Flight into a new College of Aeronautics. In 1972, he became its Professor of Aeronautics and also Chairman of the College, which now forms part of Cranfield University. On retirement in 1976, he was appointed Professor Emeritus and awarded an Honorary Doctorate. Career in brief
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FamilyIn 1942, Keith-Lucas married firstly Dorothy de Bauduy Robertson, and they had two sons and one daughter. In 1979, he and his wife visited Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the Wright brothers had made their flights. His wife was killed there in a road accident, and Keith-Lucas himself was seriously injured. In 1981, he married secondly Phyllis Everard Whurr. Keith-Lucas's brother, Professor Bryan Keith-Lucas, a political scientist and Master of Darwin College, Kent, died in 1996. He was also the brother of Social Work Professor Alan Keith-Lucas. Notes1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34624|title=Lucas, Keith|last=Bradley|first=John K.|date=7 January 2010|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|archive-url=|archivedate=|dead-url=|accessdate=5 March 2018}} [2]2. ^1 {{Cite web |title=David Keith-Lucas (1911–1997): Aeronautical engineer |website=Dictionary of Ulster Biography |url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1770}} }} Sources
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