Southampton, United Kingdom

Aeronautics and Astronautics / Materials and Structures

Integrated Master's degree
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Qualification: MEng
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Master of Engineering (MEng)
University website: www.soton.ac.uk
Aeronautics
Aeronautics (from the ancient Greek words ὰήρ āēr, which means "air", and ναυτική nautikē which means "navigation", i.e. "navigation into the air") is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere. The British Royal Aeronautical Society identifies the aspects of "aeronautical Art, Science and Engineering" and "the profession of Aeronautics (which expression includes Astronautics)."
Astronautics
Astronautics (or cosmonautics) is the theory and practice of navigation beyond Earth's atmosphere.
Aeronautics
"The birds can fly, an' why can't I?
Must we give in," says he with a grin,
"That the bluebird an' phœbe are smarter 'n we be?"
John Townsend Trowbridge, Darius Green and his Flying Machine (1867).
Aeronautics
For I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.
Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835, published 1842), 117.
Aeronautics
Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion
And that with paddle or fin or pinion,
We soon or late shall navigate
The azure as now we sail the sea.
John Townsend Trowbridge, Darius Green and his Flying Machine (1867).
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