Sir Leonard Bairstow CBE FRS FRAeS (25 June 1880 – 8 September 1963)[1][3] was an English aeronautical engineer.
He then went to the National Physical Laboratory at Bushy Park where ultimately he became head of aeroplane research work.
He made a major analytical contribution to the report of the R101 inquiry, which sought to discover how the airship disaster occurred.
[5] He held the Zaharoff Chair of Aviation at Imperial College London from 1920-1949 and became Professor Sir Leonard Bairstow.
For a time his assistant there was Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, a pioneer in the mathematics of aeronautics.