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Golden jubilee of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Glasgow University

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Glasgow has a long association with aeronautical engineering. The first significant contribution to aerospace engineering was due to Prof W.J.M. Rankine, holder of the Regius Chair of Engineering, in terms of his significant breakthrough in 1870 in shock-wave theory by presenting the proper normal shock wave equations for continuity, momentum and energy and identifying the existence of shock waves. Percy Pilcher, a lecturer in engineering (naval architecture), built and flew gliders and was in the process of building a powered version before he was killed in a gliding accident in 1899. Aeronautics was taught as a specialisation of mechanical engineering in the 1920s by Dr Alexander Thorn who obtained his PhD by designing and building a wind tunnel and carrying out some fundamental experimental aerodynamics in the facility. He was also conspicuous in making the first contributions to CFD in that decade. He later joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment during WW2 before taking the Chair of Engineering Sciences at Oxford University. Also Charles Oakley became an Air Ministry Controller involved with advancing aircraft manufacturing during that period.