Hilda Lyon

[2][3][4] Hilda Lyon attended Beverley High School and then in 1915 went to Newnham College, Cambridge, from which she obtained a MA in mathematics.

[5] In 1930, Lyon was awarded the R38 Memorial Prize by the Royal Aeronautical Society for her paper "The Strength of Transverse Frames of Rigid Airships".

[9] After submitting her thesis, Lyon went to Göttingen in Germany, and conducted research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft für Strömungsforschung with Ludwig Prandtl.

[10] From 1937, Lyon returned to full-time aerodynamic research as a Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough.

A blue plaque was installed in Lyon's honour at the site of her father's grocers’ shop (now a Morrisons Daily) in Market Weighton in the East Riding of Yorkshire on Thursday, 27 June 2019.

The R101 at Cardington
The launch of USS Albacore in 1955
Plaque to Hilda Lyon, in Market Weighton