Some developments in aircraft design and application during the War
A 1919 technical paper by Lord Weir, wartime Air Minister, delivered to the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Britain for an audience of engineers and shipbuilders reviewing Royal Air Force aircraft development. Halftone photographs show biplanes parked broadside on grass fields, giving designers clean silhouettes of struts, wire bracing, propellers, roundels and serial numbers against plain sky.
