Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 10 Issue 3
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High Altitude Problems: One of the Subjects Dealt with at the I.Ae.S. Meeting
THE report provided by PROFESSOR KLEMIN of the papers read at the annual meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences is of particular interest on account of the fact…
The I.Ae.S. Annual Meeting: A Summary of the Papers Read to the Members of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences
Alexander KleminSINCE its inception, but a few years ago, the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences has grown remarkably in the size and distinction of its membership, and the technical value of…
The Air Registration Board: The Origin and Functions of the New Board in Relation to Civil Aviation
J.M. SpaightTHE connexion is not at first sight apparent between a small, dark, saw‐dusty, no doubt dirty and inconvenient coffee‐house in the City of London, in the days of William and Mary…
Resonance Tests: Their History and Principles in Relation to Flutter Problems
A.G. PugsleyTHOUGH resonance tests are now becoming familiar to most aeronautical engineers, it is perhaps desirable at the outset to indicate their general nature. They are vibration tests…
Torsional Vibration: A Formula Giving Close Approximations for Calculating Fundamental Frequencies
Li Teng‐KoTHE usual cases that occur in torsional vibration calculations are of the type shown in Fig. 1.
Two D.V.L. Instruments: The Scratch Recorder for Measuring Variations in Length and the Wing‐Vibration Recorder
ONE of the activities of the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Lufthfahrt has, naturally, been directed to the development of special instruments adapted for the peculiar needs of the…
Letters to the Editor: A Stressing Problem
SIR,—I have three problems all more or less related and two closely allied. I hope that by airing them in your columns I may obtain some reliable information. I am not very…
Some Books Recently Received
At all times engineers have needed to know something of the properties of materials, but of late for a reason that is new. The materials of the nineteenth century were lew and…
The Dornier Do. 24: An Ocean‐Going Three‐Engined High‐Wing Monoplane Flying Boat
BEARING, as it does, the unmistakable stamp of Dornier design, this flying boat makes a very interesting comparison with their earlier machines—notably the Wal and the Do. 18. In…
The Fokker T.5: A Heavily Armed Long‐Range Mid‐Wing Bomber or “Battle Plane”
ALTHOUGH this aeroplane is utterly unlike the general trend of Fokker aerodynamic design, it is typical as regards structural practice. It is also not entirely irrelevant to…
The Leipzig Fair: Instruments for Testing Raw Materials of Interest to Aeronautical Engineers
IN the Engineering and Building Trades Section of this year's Leipzig Fair, which is open from the 6th to the 14th of this month, there is a special display of instruments, some…
Air Ministry Contracts
THE following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during January is extracted from the February issue of The Ministry of Labour Gazette:—
Air Ministry Official Notices
The attention of ground engineers is drawn to the necessity for keeping themselves familiar with the air navigation regulations already in force and for acquainting themselves…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and Technical Notes of the U.S. National Advisory…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A process for the treatment of distillable carbonaceous materials with added hydrogen or an added gas containing free hydrogen at an elevated temperature between 200 deg. and 700…
Month in the Patent Office
Aircraft structures are built up of previously constructed members comprising a skin part and stress‐carrying structure, the structures being completed by interattaching the…
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- Prof Phil Webb