The Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) was an agency of
NATO that existed from 1952 to 1996.
AGARD was founded as an Agency of the NATO Military Committee. It was set up in May 1952 with headquarters in
Neuilly sur Seine,
France.
In a
mission statement
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in the 1982 ''History'' it published, the purpose involved "bringing together the leading personalities of the NATO nations in the fields of science and technology relating to aerospace".
[ Frank Wattendorf & Rolland A. Willaume editors (1982) ''The AGARD History 1952 — 1981'', AGARD Publishing]
The Advisory Group was organized by panels:
:Aerospace medical, avionics, electromagnetic wave propagation, flight mechanics, fluid dynamics, guidance and control, propulsion and energetics, structures and materials, and technical information.
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In 1958 Theodore von Kármán hired Moe Berg to accompany him to the AGARD conference in Paris. "AGARD's aim was to encourage European countries to develop weapons technology on their own instead of relying on the U.S. defense industry to do it for them."
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Activities
There were annual meetings, frequently in Paris, but also in Delft
Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...
, Turin, Cambridge, Washington DC.[
The Advisory Group administered a consultant and exchange program including lecture series and technical panels.
The AGARD publishing program included a multilingual aeronautical dictionary, about ninety titles per year, with a normal run of 1200. An ''Agardograph'' is a work prepared by, or on behalf of, AGARD's panels.][ For example, an agardograph on the ]AGARD-B wind tunnel model
AGARD-B is a standard wind tunnel model (calibration model) that is used to verify, by comparison of test results with previously published data, the measurement chain in a wind tunnel.
Together with its derivative AGARD-C it belongs to a fami ...
was prepared.
Later examples of AGARD studies include such topics as non-lethal weapons, theatre ballistic missile defence, protection of large aircraft in peace support operations, and limiting collateral damage caused by air-delivered weapons. AGARD was also one of the first NATO organizations to cooperate with Russia in a mutual exchange of information dealing with flight safety.
AGARD merged with the NATO Defence Research Group (DRG) in 1996 to become the NATO Research and Technology Organisation
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
(RTO).[Keith L. Gardner and Terry A. Franks (January 1997]
NATO's new Research and Technology Organization
''NATO Review'' 45(1): 20,1
See also
*Aeronautics
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Notes
Further reading
* Theodore von Kármán with Lee Edson (1967) ''The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Kármán Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space'': Little, Brown and Company
*
The AGARD History 1952-1987
' (1999), Advisory Group for Aerospace Research & Development,
External links
Science and Technology Organization (STO)
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Aeronautics organizations
Aerospace engineering organizations
Military technology
NATO agencies
Scientific organizations based in France