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Onno Sinke, Loyaliteit in verdrukking. De Technische Hogeschool Delft tijdens de bezetting

28 Jan 2014-Bmgn-The low countries historical review (Igitur)-Vol. 129, Iss: 1, pp 12-12
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09 Dec 2020
TL;DR: The history of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is described in this article, where the authors highlight how its research and education developed within the socio-economic context of the Netherlands and the developments in aerospace over the past 80 years.
Abstract: This year, 2020, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands celebrates its 80th birthday. This paper describes the history of the department since its founding in early 1940, just before the start of World War II in the Netherlands, until present day. The paper will highlight how its research and education developed within the socio-economic context of the Netherlands and the developments in aerospace over the past 80 years.

5 citations


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  • ...As Professor Van der Maas was a very religious, Calvinistic Protestant, he was a firm believer that idle hands are the devil’s playground: he used his time in hiding to write the lecture notes for the aeronautical curriculum and taught students who had not signed the Loyalty Statement to the Third Reich [17] to allow them to make a quick start once the war was over....

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  • ...As Professor Van der Maas was a very religious, Calvinistic Protestant, he was a firm believer that idle hands are the devil’s playground: he used his time in hiding to write the lecture notes for the aeronautical curriculum and taught students who had not signed the Loyalty Statement to the Third Reich [17] to allow them to make a quick start once the war was over....

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  • ...Over the years many more aircraft and aircraft parts were added and by the time the laboratory moved to its dedicated hangar building now attached to the current Aerospace building in 1965, the hangar contained more aircraft and aircraft parts as study objects than it contained test equipment [16][17]....

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09 Dec 2020
TL;DR: The history of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is described in this article, where the authors highlight how its research and education developed within the socio-economic context of the Netherlands and the developments in aerospace over the past 80 years.
Abstract: This year, 2020, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands celebrates its 80th birthday. This paper describes the history of the department since its founding in early 1940, just before the start of World War II in the Netherlands, until present day. The paper will highlight how its research and education developed within the socio-economic context of the Netherlands and the developments in aerospace over the past 80 years.

5 citations