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Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview

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<strong>Hele</strong>-<strong>Shaw</strong>’s inventions<br />

• ≈ 1929 Fairey and Reed in UK, Curtiss in the USA;<br />

• 1932 Variable pitch propellers were introduced into air<br />

force service;<br />

• 1933 Boeing 247, passenger aircraft;<br />

• 1935 Bristol Aeroplane Company/Rolls-Royce: Bristol<br />

Type 130 Bombay, medium bomber.<br />

BIRS, Canada, July 2007 – p. 16

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