Flying Mathematicians of World War I

Keith Lucas was killed instantly when his BE2 biplane collided with that of a colleague over Salisbury Plain on 5 October 1916. As a captain in the Royal Flying Corps, Lucas would have known that his death was a very real risk of the work he was doing in support of Britain''s war effort. But Lucas wasn''t a career pilot - he was a scientist. The Flying Mathematicians of World War I details the adv...