Laurence Clancy
Laurence Joseph Clancy(15 March 1929 - 16 October 2014[1]) was an Education Officer inaerodynamicsatRoyal Air Force College Cranwellwhere his textbookAerodynamicsbecame standard.
He was born in Egypt to Alfred Joseph Clancy and Agnes Hunter.[citation needed]In 1951 he gained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree from theUniversity of Liverpool.[2]
Clancy studied aerodynamics[when?]at theCollege of AeronauticsatRAF Cranfield,where his teachers wereTerence Nonweiler,later of Glasgow University, andGeoffrey Lilley,later of Southampton University.[citation needed]Clancy qualified as an Education Officer with the RAF and began teaching at Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
After 16 years with the Royal Air Force, Clancy had a long career at theUniversity of Bradfordwhere he served as Dean of Engineering.[1]He was a colleague ofJohn Brian Helliwell.[citation needed]
He married Barbara Consterdine in 1952, they separated in 1969. He has 4 children from this marriage, Peter, Helen, Caroline & Jillian. In 1972 he married Eileen Tyne,(Nee Smith), they separated in 1986. He was married to Jane Bingham.[1]from 1992 until his death.
Aerodynamics
[edit]Clancy assembled a manuscript from his lectures. In 1975Pitmanpublished it as thetextbookAerodynamics.It was re-issued in 1978 byJohn Wiley & Sons,and in 1986 byLongman.Abook reviewinJournal of Fluid Mechanicsdescribed the book as follows:
- The scope of the book is wide and includes the mechanics of flight and aircraft performance in addition to the usual topics of basic fluid mechanics, aerofoil and wing theory, boundary layer theory, gas dynamics and experimental techniques.[3]
In hispreface,Clancy portrayed aerodynamics as both anexactandexperimental science:
- The true aerodynamicist… must combine [mathematics and experiment], using analysis to deepen and extend his knowledge, but continually experimenting in order to check the validity of his assumptions and to improve his understanding of the physical problem. (page xviii)
Reviewer M.W. forFlight Internationalwrote, "The author has a lucid style and puts across a traditionally difficult subject in such a way that the less prepared reader is able to follow the arguments of even the knottiest topics."[4]
References
[edit]- ^abc"Laurence Joseph Clancy, Death Notice".Bradford Telegraph and Argus.Retrieved28 March2022.
- ^In MemoriamArchived2017-01-16 at theWayback MachinefromUniversity of Liverpool
- ^A. D. Young(1978)Journal of Fluid Mechanics77(3): 623,4doi:10.1017/S0022112076212292
- ^M.W. (14 August 1975)Aerodynamics by L. J. Clancy,fromFlightglobalviaWayback Machine
External links
[edit]- Laurence Clancy interviewfrom ovguide