John Carver Meadows Frost
 „Jack” Frost w swoim laboratorium w firmie Avro Canada prezentujący efekt Coandy (1952) | |
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John Carver Meadows Frost (przydomek „Jack” Frost; ur. w 1915 w Walton-on-Thames, Anglia, zm. 9 października 1979 w Auckland, Nowa Zelandia) – brytyjski projektant samolotów.
W dziedzinie lotnictwa był pionierem rozwoju eksperymentalnej brytyjskiej maszyny naddźwiękowej oraz był zaangażowany w rozwój kanadyjskiego pierwszego myśliwca, którym był Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck. Zaprojektował w firmie Avro Canada, samolot pionowego startu i lądowania Avro Canada VZ-9-AV Avrocar, który miał kształt „latającego spodka”. John Frost zmarł na atak serca w Auckland.
Literatura
- Campagna, Palmiro: The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed, Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-7737-5973-5.
- „Retiring Designer Leaves Stamp in Aviation World”, The Daily News, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 22. května 1979.
- Rose, Bill and Tony Buttler: Flying Saucer Aircraft (Secret Projects), Leicester, UK: Midland Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-85780-233-0.
- Waterton, Bill: The Quick and the Dead, London: Frederick Mueller, 1958.
- Whitcomb, Randall: Avro Aircraft & Cold War Aviation, St. Catharine's, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing Ltd., 2002. ISBN 1-55125-082-9.
- Williams, A.R.: „Avro built a saucer-plane that actually flew”, Winnipeg Tribune, TribFocus, 18. prosince 1976.
- Yeager, Chuck et al: The Quest for Mach One: A First-Person Account of Breaking the Sound Barrier. New York: Penguin Studio, 1997. ISBN 0-670-87460-4.
- Zuk, Bill: Avrocar: Canada's Flying Saucer..., Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2001. ISBN 1-55046-359-4.
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Photograph of "Jack" Frost (John Carver Meadows Frost) at work in his Avro Canada laboratory (photo: 1952). He demonstrates the Coandă effect. Pressurized air flows out of the end of the red tube, and then over the top of the metal disk. The Coandă effect makes the air "stick" to the disk, bending down at the edges to flow vertically. This airflow supports the disk in the air. The image in question, was part of a film project that I was involved in as screenwriter, original author and technical consultant. In the research phase, I obtained the rights to the extant Avro Aircraft film archives and the image was a still from an original 16 mm print that was used in the forthcoming book and documentary film. At the conclusion of the project, I retained rights to the research material. Bzuk (talk) 17:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC).
Photograph of "Jack" Frost (John Carver Meadows Frost) at work in his Avro Canada laboratory (photo: 1952). He demonstrates the Coandă effect. Pressurized air flows out of the end of the red tube, and then over the top of the metal disk. The Coandă effect makes the air "stick" to the disk, bending down at the edges to flow vertically. This airflow supports the disk in the air. The image in question, was part of a film project that I was involved in as screenwriter, original author and technical consultant. In the research phase, I obtained the rights to the extant Avro Aircraft film archives and the image was a still from an original 16 mm print that was used in the forthcoming book and documentary film. At the conclusion of the project, I retained rights to the research material. Bzuk (talk) 17:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC).