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in Canada. During the next decade, he continued researching the stability of aircraft and investigated many forms of
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Turnbull was employed by Frederick and Company aircraft builders in England, where he designed a number of
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which was first tested in 1927. His interests extended into many fields, such as
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in 1893 and undertook postgraduate work in physics at the Universities of
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