D. G. Ainley
1961 Bio Note [1]
Mr D. G. Ainley, B.Sc. (Eng.) (Associate Member), was educated at Brentwood School and Queen Mary College, London.
In 1943 he joined the Gas Turbine Division of the Royal Aircraft Establishment and in 1944 he undertook research on power jets.
Since 1946, he has been engaged at the National Gas Turbine Establishment, Pyestock, on research work, becoming Superintendent of the Aerodynamics Department in 1958. He is responsible for work on the design and performance of axial turbines and compressors, turbine cooling and nuclear applications. He has written two papers on turbines and received a George Stephenson Prize in 1954 as a co-author of a paper on An experimental single-stage air-cooled turbine. He is also the author of a paper on The performance of axial flow turbines.
Mr Ainley became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1953 and is at present a member of the committee of the Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Group.