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)
[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 musch useful research which was done there.
I have endevoured to mention this briefly, and without too much "POV" - the original article attracted a lot of "Fact" requests for citations. Unfortunatly 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".
