In 1951 University of Liverpool conferred the bachelor of science (honours) degree. Clancy studied aerodynamics at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. His teachers were Terence Nonweiler, later of Glasgow University, and Geoffrey Lilley, later of Southampton University. Clancy qualified as an Education Officer with the RAF and began teaching at Royal Airforce College Cranwell. After 16 years with the Royal Air Force, Clancy had a long career at the University of Bradford where he served as Dean of Engineering. He was a colleague of John Brian Helliwell. Aerodynamics
Laurence assembled a book manuscript from his lectures. In 1975 John Wiley & Sons and Pitman issued his textbook Aerodynamics. It was re-issued in 1978 by Wiley, and in 1986 by Longman. A book review in Journal of Fluid Mechanics described the book as follows:
The scope of the book is wide and includes the mechanics of flight and aircraft performance in addition to the usual topics of basic fluid mechanics, aerofoil and wing theory, boundary layer theory, gas dynamics and experimental techniques.
In 1951 University of Liverpool conferred the bachelor of science (honours) degree. Clancy studied aerodynamics at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield. Her teachers were Terence Nonweiler, later of Glasgow University, and Geoffrey Lilley, later of Southampton University. Clancy qualified as an Education Officer with the RAF and began teaching at Royal Airforce College Cranwell. After 16 years with the Royal Air Force, Clancy had a long career at the University of Bradford where she served as Dean of Engineering. She was a colleague of John Brian Helliwell. Aerodynamics
Laurence assembled a book manuscript from her lectures. In 1975 John Wiley & Sons and Pitman issued her textbook Aerodynamics. It was re-issued in 1978 by Wiley, and in 1986 by Longman. A book review in Journal of Fluid Mechanics described the book as follows:
The scope of the book is wide and includes the mechanics of flight and aircraft performance in addition to the usual topics of basic fluid mechanics, aerofoil and wing theory, boundary layer theory, gas dynamics and experimental techniques.