Talk:Royal Aircraft Establishment
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"Barnes Wallis used the water tanks here to test scale prototypes of the bouncing bomb used for the Second World War Dambusters raid." According to all the references I have found Wallis did his testing at the National Physics Laboratory at Teddington. DJ Clayworth 14:03, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] cleanup tag added
Did RAE not have other sites, too, eg Bedford? And is there not more than 1 listed WT building? Sc147 23:19, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
RAE had many sites and outstations, including the two separate Bedford sites. One of the Bedford sites housed the numerous wind tunnel facilities built postwar (originally established as the NAE - National Aeronautical Establishment) while the other included the existing Thurleigh airfield. The original NAE plan was ambitious in scope, including a runway linking both tunnel and airfield sites, as considered necessary for operations of Brabazon-type aircraft. Until the early 1990s, RAE operated air ferry services to a number of outstations, predominantly those supporting trials activities, including Aberporth, Llanbedr, and West Freugh, as well as Bedford.--Stephen McParlin 14:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
- I have cross-referenced to the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment which it joined as a 'merger' in WW2 - perhaps someone can do the same with the Bedford installations? Ephebi 13:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Controversy
It is an important part of the history of the RAE that in the first world war period and after it was the subject of heavy press and political pressure, being "blamed" for the almost all the failures of the British Aircraft Industry of the time, and denied credit for much useful research which was done there.
I have endeavoured to mention this briefly, and without too much "POV" - the original article attracted a lot of "Fact" requests for citations. Unfortunately line by line citations would be difficult without going into much greater detail than could probably be justified - I have referred anyone interested in the general facts of the case to a couple of sources - someone may want to change the format of this to something more like a conventional academic "citation".
[edit] Rockets and Missiles
These are obviously misplaced - hardly a product of the Royal Aircraft Factory!!
They should be moved into the portion of the article dealing with the RAE - but exactly where - anyone with more background in the history of the post 1918 establishment have any ideas?Soundofmusicals (talk) 11:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
