Aerodynamic research institute
The Aerodynamic Research Institute (AVA) in Göttingen was one of the four predecessor organizations of the German Research and Research Institute for Aerospace , which was founded in 1969 and renamed the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 1997 .
history
The AVA emerged in 1919 from the "Model Research Institute for Aerodynamics of the Motor Airship Study Society" founded by Ludwig Prandtl in Göttingen in 1907 . In its founding years, it was still concerned with the development of the "best" airship shape. As early as 1908, the first wind tunnel was built in Göttingen for tests on models for aviation. In 1915 the "Model Research Institute for Aerodynamics" was founded with the participation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) founded in 1911 and under the direction of Ludwig Prandtl, which became the "Aerodynamic Research Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society" (AVA) in 1919 KWG was taken over and converted into the " Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research, connected with the Aerodynamic Research Institute" in 1925 . The systematic investigations of various chronologically numbered aerofoil profiles formed the profile catalog of the Aerodynamic Research Institute, which were successfully used in aircraft construction in the 1920s and 1930s and are cited in the literature as Göttingen profiles (e.g. "Gö 532" for the Condor ) .
Ludwig Prandtl headed the institute until 1937; Albert Betz was his successor . In the same year the institute was spun off under the name “Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt Göttingen e. V. in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society ”, in which the Reich Aviation Ministry was involved. The part remaining after the spin-off was continued under the name "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research" (in 1948 the Max Planck Institute for Flow Research, now the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization , emerged from the KWI for Flow Research ). Under Betz, among other things, the specific wind tunnel investigation and patent application for wing sweep , a fundamental German patent for aircraft aerodynamics, took place from 1939 .
The AVA was confiscated by the British in 1945 (until 1948), and in 1953 as “Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt Göttingen e. V. in the Max Planck Society "reopened and fully integrated in 1956 as the" Aerodynamic Research Institute in the Max Planck Society ".
In 1969 the company was spun off from the Max Planck Society and the "German Research and Research Institute for Aviation and Space Travel" was founded. V. ".
Works
The institute directors and employees published a series of books as editors about the work of the research institute on aerodynamic parameters, working methods and test results.
- L. Prandtl (Ed.): Results of the Aerodynamic Research Institute in Göttingen - I. Delivery . R. Oldenburg, Munich and Berlin 1921.
- L. Prandtl (Ed.): Results of the Aerodynamic Research Institute in Göttingen - II. Delivery . R. Oldenburg, Munich and Berlin 1923.
- L. Prandtl, A. Betz (Ed.): Results of the Aerodynamic Research Institute in Göttingen - III. Delivery . R. Oldenburg, Munich and Berlin 1927.
- L. Prandtl, A. Betz (ed.): Results of the aerodynamic research institute in Göttingen - IV. Delivery . R. Oldenburg, Munich and Berlin 1932.
literature
- Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt Göttingen eV in the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society (CPTS) , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbook on the history of the institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - Data and sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pages 27–45 (chronology of the institute)
- Sven Grünewald: cradle of aviation research . In: Polygo Verlag GmbH & Regionalverband Südniedersachsen eV (Ed.): RegJo . No. 54 . Polygo Verlag GmbH, 2010, ISSN 1615-5696 , p. 18 to 31 .
swell
- History of DLR - Society of Friends of DLR e. V.
- 100 years of DLR - DLR homepage
- Archive on the history of the Max Planck Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Prandtl (Ed.): Results of the aerodynamic research institute in Göttingen - 1st delivery . 4th edition. R. Oldenburg, Munich and Berlin 1935, p. 73 .
- ↑ Werner Heinzerling: Wing sweep and area rule, two basic German patents of aircraft aerodynamics , Munich without a year, (Deutsches Museum). online (PDF; 10 MB)