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Beverley Strahan Shenstone MASc, HonFRAes, FAIAA, AFIAS, FCAISI, HonOSTIV (10 June 1906 – 9 November 1979) was a Canadian aerodynamicist often credited with developing the aerodynamics of the Supermarine Spitfire elliptical wing.
Nickname: Bev. Birth Date: June 10, 1906. Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario. Death Date: September 11, 1979. Year Inducted: 2016. Awards: BSc; MSC; FCASI, FAIAA. Following a master’s degree in aeronautics, Bev Shenstone had a stellar career in aircraft design. Known for creation of the Spitfire wing, his vast work in aviation continued post-war in ...
15 de mar. de 2017 · To further confuse things, the brilliant aerodynamicist who was their conduit into Supermarine wasn’t English either, but a largely forgotten Canadian called Beverley Shenstone. He deserves to be as famous in England as Reginald Mitchell – and even more so in his native Canada.
Canadian-born Beverley Shenstone in this. It is suggested that the wing’s distinctive double-ellipse planform could have come from Prandtl’s work at Göttingen on finite wing theory. 1. BEVERLEY SHENSTONE AND THE SPITFIRE A recent book by Cole (1) deals with the career of the Canadian-born aeronautical engineer, Beverley Shenstone (Figure 1).
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Beverley Shenstone: On Messerschmitt. In 1937, Willy Messerschmitt and Daimler-Benz engineers prepared a special Me109, called the 109R to make an attempt on the World Airspeed Record. Using a specially prepared DB601A, boosted on special fuel to 1600bhp, the Me109R broke the record at 379mph.
Many years later Beverley Shenstone, a Canadian-born aerodynamicist who had had principal responsibility for the design of the Spitfire wing, emphatically denied the charge, pointing out that...
12 de mar. de 2016 · And in the late 1920s the Air Ministry recognized the talents of a young Canadian, Beverley Shenstone, who had been recruited by the ministry’s research laboratory in London, and they gave him...
