Ludwig Prandtl - Father of modern aerodynamics
Ludwig Prandtl - Father of modern aerodynamics
Ludwig Prandtl is today considered one of the key founding fathers of institutionalised aerospace research. When he founded the Modellversuchsanstalt für Aerodynamik der Motorluftschiff-Studiengesellschaft (Institute for testing of aerodynamic models of the powered airship society) which would later become the Aerodynamischen Versuchsanstalt, (Institute for Aerodynamic Testing) or AVA, a precursor of the modern day German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in 1907 in Göttingen, he was laying the foundations of modern aerodynamic research.
