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Cranfield University was formed in 1946 as the College of Aeronautics, on the then Royal Air Force base of RAF Cranfield.A major role was played in the development of the college by Roxbee Cox, later Lord Kings Norton, who was appointed to be the first governor of the college in 1945 and then served as vice-chair and (from 1962) chair of the board.
The Cranfield experiments were extremely influential in the information retrieval field, itself a subject of considerable interest in the post-World War II era when the quantity of scientific research was exploding. It was the topic of continual debate for years and led to several computer projects to test its results.
Cranfield University is an English University based on three campuses at Shrivenham, in Oxfordshire, and Cranfield and Silsoe in Bedfordshire, and at a college based in Berkshire. It is principally an institution for postgraduate study.
Cranfield also conducted research on behalf of the CAA after the Manchester Air Disaster to assess why so many passengers were unable to make it to the emergency exits safely. This research prompted changes to cabin layouts in the UK, including making overwing exits more accessible in an emergency by improving seat layout, forcing the ...
1937: RAF Cranfield was set up near Cranfield village in Bedfordshire in 1937 in the build-up to the Second World War. [citation needed] 1946: the airbase became the site of a College of Aeronautics to provide education and training for aeronautical engineers. Aspects of management were a feature of Cranfield programmes from the late 1940s.
Cranfield is a village and civil parish in the west of Bedfordshire, England, situated between Bedford and Milton Keynes. It had a population of 4,909 in 2001. [2] increasing to 5,369 at the 2011 census. [1] The parish is in Central Bedfordshire unitary authority. It is best known for being the home of Cranfield University and Cranfield Airport ...
Defence and Security – Cranfield University; DA-CMT at Defence Academy of the UK, archived in 2009 "Catalogue: Military College of Science (1864–1953) and Royal Military College of Science (1953–2004)". Barrington Library. Cranfield University. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018 – via Internet Archive. "Photographs of Shrivenham".
Cranfield Airport (ICAO: EGTC) is an airfield just outside the village of Cranfield, in Bedfordshire, England. It is 7 NM (13 km; 8.1 mi) south-west of Bedford and 5.5 NM (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) east of Milton Keynes. [2] It was originally a Second World War aerodrome, RAF Cranfield. It is now used for business aviation, private flights, and for ...