Re: Unknown flying wing boat design
Here-after the data of Lawrence Percival Coombes:
Souces:
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/coom/COOMS006.htm
1899 : Born Madras, India
1915 : Began course in engineering at City and Guilds Institute.
1917-1918 : With RNAS No.10 Naval Squadron and RAF 210 Squadron as Pilot of Sopwith Camels in France. Awarded DFC.
1918 : Freeman of the City of London for war services
1919 : Barnstorming on BE2Es with Kingsford Smith
1920 : London BSc, Degree in Engineering with 1st Class Honours from City and Guilds Engineering College
1920-1924 : With C.A. Parsons and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne. Apprenticeship and Research Department.
1924-1925 : Royal Aircraft Establishment, Aerodynamics Department (in wind tunnels).
1925-1930 : Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, Felixstowe. First scientific officer under Maurice Wright then H.M.Garner.
1926 : 6 April. Married to Annie Marie Lee (Nancy).
1928 : 2 September, daughter Shirley Ruth born.
1930-1938 : RAE. In charge of Seaplane Tank.
1932 : 15 February, daughter Josephine born.
1938 : Travelled to Australia to establish the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, a Division under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. First Chief Superintendent.
1943 : Appointed agent for the Overseas Corporation (Aust) Pty.Ltd.
1945 : Elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
1946 : Inaugural meeting of the Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council in London (of which LPC a member).
1949 : ARL transferred to the Research and Development Branch of the Department of Supply, becoming one of the Defence Science Laboratories.
1953 : Chairman of the Melbourne Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society on its formation in 1953. Eventually became President of the Australian Division of the Society.
: Elected Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences.
: Elected Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute.
1964 : Retired as Chief Superintendant of ARL
: Awarded the honour of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
1965-1972 : Christ Church involvement
1968 : Awarded the Kernot Medal by University of Melbourne
1975 : 19 March, Awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering, Honoris Causa, by Monash University.
: Foundation Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences.
1988 : Died, 3 June.
In the concerned period 1930-1938, he was working at the RAE, seaplane research dept.
Also: 6-9 "The Hull-Less flying boat" Description and patent
Incomplete paper headed 'The Hull-less Flying Boat' by H. Roxbee Cox and LPC; Patent agreement with the Air Council dated 30 August 1937 with attached description dated 31 July 1937.