Background
Keith-Lucas, David was born on March 25, 1911 in Cambridge, England. Son of Keith and Alys (Hubbard) Lucas.
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Keith-Lucas, David was born on March 25, 1911 in Cambridge, England. Son of Keith and Alys (Hubbard) Lucas.
Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1933. Doctor of Science (honorary), Queens University, 1968. Doctor of Science (honorary), Cranfield Institute of Technology, 1975.
David Keith-Lucas was one of the sons of Keith Lucas, who invented the first aeronautical compass. He was an apprentice and engineer with Central America Parsons and Company from 1933 to 1940, then moved to the aerodynamics office of Short Brothers, Rochester, famous for their flying boats, becoming their chief aerodynamicist in 1944. From 1945 to 1965 he was with Short Brothers and Harland Limited in Belfast, holding the posts of chief designer, technical director and research director
His work included research on swept-wings which culminated in the Short Bachelor of Science-5 research aircraft.
Other projects included the Short Belfast heavy freighter, the Short Skyvan, and the South Dakota-330 and South Dakota-360 freight-commuter series. The Short Bachelor of Science.1 was a shoulder-wing, cantilever, tailless monoplane glider designed by David Keith-Lucas and Professor Geoffrey T.R. Hill and built by Shorts as a private research venture to test the concept of the aero-isoclinic wing.
lieutenant was the first aircraft to incorporate this feature. After initial tests, at the end of which the Bachelor of Science.1 crash-landed as a result of problems while being towed behind the Short Sturgeon, the Bachelor of Science.1 was further developed into the Short Bachelor of Science.4 Sherpa, powered by two Blackburn Turbomeca Palas turbojet engines.
In 1951, Keith-Lucas designed the Short Bachelor of Science-6 Seamew as a lightweight anti-submarine platform.
While in Belfast, he served on the Senate of the Queen"s University, Belfast. In 1965 he was appointed Professor of Aircraft Design at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, later the Cranfield Institute of Technology, and welded together the departments of Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design and Flight into a new College of Aeronautics. In 1972, he became its Professor of Aeronautics and also Chairman of the College, which now forms part of Cranfield University.
On retirement in 1976, he was appointed Professor Emeritus and awarded an Honorary Doctorate. in brief Chief Aerodynamicist, Short Bros 1940-1949 Chief Designer, Short Bros & Harland Limited.
1949-1958 Technical Director, Short Bros & Harland Limited. 1958-1964 Director of Research Short Bros & Harland Limited.
1964-1965 Professor of Aircraft Design, Cranfield Institute of Technology 1965-1972 Professor of Aeronautics, College of Aeronautics,1972-1976 Chairman, College of Aeronautics 1972-1976 Chairman of the Airworthiness Requirements Board, 1972–1982 Keith-Lucas"s brother, Professor Bryan Keith-Lucas, a political scientist and Master of Darwin College, Kent, died in 1996. He was also the brother of Social Work Professor Alan Keith-Lucas.
Member of the Senate of the Queen"s University, Belfast, 1960-1965
Member of the Council of the Air Registration Board, 1967–1972
Member of the Roskill Commission for the Third London Airport, 1968–1970.
Married Dorothy De Bauduy Robertson, April 25, 1942 (deceased 1979). Children; Mary, Michael, Christopher. Married Phyllis Marion Whurr, July 11, 1981.
