Editing Gerald Bull (section)

==University==
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After graduating, Bull entered [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]], with hopes of eventually entering military officers' training school. Philip LaBrosse visited the [[University of Toronto]] with the intention of having Bull placed there. He wrote to Bull, who was in Kingston, having found room in the medical school. Bull declined the offer and instead asked LaBrosse if a position in the new aeronautical engineering course was available. The department, being brand new, had limited qualifying criteria for entrance and agreed to interview Bull even though he was only sixteen years old – and he was accepted into the undergraduate program. Records and recollections of both classmates and his professors show little evidence of Bull's brilliance; one professor noted that "He certainly didn't stand out".{{sfnp|Grant|1991|p=22}} After graduating in 1948, with marks that were described as "strictly average", Bull took a drafting job at [[A.V. Roe Canada]].

Later that year, the University of Toronto opened a new Institute of Aerodynamics (now the [[UTIAS|Institute for Aerospace Studies]]) under the direction of Dr. Gordon Patterson. The Institute could afford to employ twelve students, accepting three per year for a four-year period, and was funded by the [[Defence Research Board]] (DRB). Bull applied and was accepted at Patterson's personal recommendation, as Patterson felt that any lack in academics was made up for by Bull's tremendous energy. Bull was soon assigned to work with fellow student Doug Henshaw, and the two were given the task of building a [[supersonic wind tunnel]], which was at that time a relatively rare device.

When the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] donated land adjacent to [[CFB Downsview|RCAF Station Downsview]] to the institute, the operations were quickly moved. During construction, Bull used the wind tunnel as the basis for his September 15, 1949 Master's thesis, on the design and construction of advanced wind tunnels. The tunnel was to be featured prominently during the opening of the new Institute grounds, leading to an all-night rush to get it fully operational in time for the presentation. The work was completed at 3:30&nbsp;am, but the team was too exhausted to test it. The next day Air Marshal [[Wilfred Curtis]] pushed the start button and nothing happened, but Dr. Patterson quickly reached around, pushed harder, and the wind tunnel worked perfectly.

Bull had largely finished his PhD thesis on the same topic in 1950, when a request from the DRB asking that the Institute provide an aerodynamicist to help on their [[Velvet Glove|Velvet Glove Missile project]] arrived. It was to be an unpaid position on which the volunteer would remain on a normal PhD stipend from the university. Patterson selected Bull for the position, which led to a period of successful work at the [[Canadian Armament and Research Development Establishment]], or CARDE.