Anybody else ever come across a dH era structures professor called Dennis Mead at Southampton? I recall him once saying in a lecture "The trouble with aerodynamicists is that the can assume absolutely anything, except for responsibility".
Never came across the guy, but for many years I was an aerodynamicist regularly treated to that remark. Then I got a position where I had to oversee the work of the stress office as well as aerodynamics, and guess what - the stressmen made even bigger assumptions. Yes I know they had to sign off on the drawings, but so did the aerodynamicists
