This book may be considered as a tribute to the works of Theodore Von Karman and Frank Wattendorf, his close associate and first Director of AGARD. Dr. von Karman (1881-1963), a well know aeronautical scientist with friends in many countries, was intensely interested in international scientific cooperation. Soon after NATO was established in 1949, he conceived the idea of an Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD) under the umbrella of NATO, and he succeeded in starting it as a group of NATO early in 1952. It became the first scientific agency of NATO. As the first Chairman of this NATO Agency, he developed a unique structure of technical-scientific Panels composed of scientists and engineers from the NATO countries who exchanged information, organized meetings, produced thousands of timely high quality publications, carried out joint projects, organized study groups for the NATO military Committee and assisted each other in developing their research and development capabilities. AGARD grew to an organization with over 500 Panel members and some 1300 people contributed annually to lectures, in working groups, in study teams, etc. In 1997, forty-five years after its formation, AGARD was amalgamated with the Defence Research Group (DRG) to form the Research and Technology Organization (RTO). The book records the deliberations of the AGARD National Delegates Board and aspects of the work of the Aerospace Applications Studies Committee and of the Technical Panels which constituted the main activity of AGARD.
AGARD: The History, 1952-1997
2001
217 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aerodynamics , Education, Law, & Humanities , Aeronautics , History , Nato , Military personnel , Aerospace systems , Documents , Military research , France , International , Defense planning , Books , Agard(Advisory group for aeronautical research and development) , Foreign reports , Rto(Research and technokogy organization)
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