Kutta’s 1910 Paper

Unlike the 1902 report of his work, Kutta’s 1910 paper was long and detailed. It was called “Uber eine mit den Grundlagen des Flugproblems in Beziehung stehende zweidimensionale Stromung” (On a two-dimensional flow relevant to the fundamental problem of flight).27 All the basic reasoning in the paper and much of the detailed working were made explicit. It covered some fifty pages of the proceedings of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Science and in­volved mathematical techniques that ranged from the general and abstract to the concrete and numerical.28 Using Kutta’s own headings, I shall go over the seven sections of the paper to convey the structure of the argument.