Aeronautical Engineering at Bristol: Prof. A. R. Collar

Abstract

MR. A. R. COLLAR has been appointed to the White chair of aeronautical engineering recently endowed in the University of Bristol by the Bristol Aeroplane Company; he will take up his appointment on his release from national service. Mr. Collar was educated at Simon Langton School, Canterbury, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, taking honours in mathematics and physics; he also took an honours degree in physics of the University of London. In 1929 he joined the staff of the Aerodynamics Department of the National Physical Laboratory, where he remained until the beginning of the War, since when he has been specially attached to the staff of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. At Teddington he carried out a wide range of aeronautical investigations, of which those affecting wind-tunnel design and aeroplane flutter problems are probably the most generally known. He is the author of many reports published by the Aeronautical Research Committee, and was for some time secretary of the Airscrew Panel and the Fluid Motion Panel of that Committee. Mr. Collar went to Farnborough to take charge of a special group of scientific men and engineers investigating aeroplane flutter and vibration problems. Working in close contact with aeroplane designing firms, this group has contributed notably to the safety of British aeroplanes.