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A Review of Flight Optimisation Along Synergic Paths in the Period 1945-1960

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D. J. Bell
D. J. Bell*
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Department of Mathematics, Bristol College of Science and Technology
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During the period 1945-1960 many journals contained papers in which flight optimisation problems were solved by several different methods, The author has long felt that a review of these methods and the assumptions under which solutions have been obtained is needed, particularly by research workers who are new to this field of study and also because many of the techniques used for optimising flight within the atmosphere are applicable to the space flight problems of today.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 67 , Issue 626 , February 1963 , pp. 119 - 123
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1963

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