Abstract
This chapter explores the research and development work in the design for a new generation of aircraft. Much of the progress made in the field of man-powered flight in the 1960s has been a result of comparatively costly and complex design and manufacturing exercises with, in some cases, timescales of several years. In general, the most important work has been carried out by groups, as opposed to individuals. It has been the engineering departments of universities and the aircraft industry that have provided the forum for these endeavors. The danger in relying upon university research projects and other activities where the effort of only one man is manifest in the design or construction of an aircraft, however valuable the contribution might be technically, is that they tend to operate in a vacuum. It, therefore, becomes important that a body such as the Royal Aeronautical Society is available to disseminate the results of such work or even to broadcast the fact that research into a particular design problem or new concept is actually taking place.
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