Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 10 Issue 8
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An International JournalTable of contents
Watching over the Future: A Lesson to be Drawn from this Year's King's Cup Race
THIS year's King's Cup Air Race was more interesting than any there has been for a number of years. There is undoubtedly much more of excitement in a race that takes place over a…
Aeroplane Landing Lights: The Principles to be Followed when Installing Lights in Aeroplanes
E.S. CalvertTHIS article is intended to cover only those aspects of the subject which concern those who have to install the lights and those who have to use them. The principles involved…
The Continuous Beam: The Case of Irregular Lateral Loading Combined with End Loads
S.J.E. MoyesTHE problem dealt with in this article has been solved before by various methods such methods involving the necessity of dividing an irregularly lateral loaded beam into a small…
Monoplane Wings With Sweep: Theoretical Calculation of the Spanwise Lift Distribution
J.R. CreanTHE fundamental question of the theoretical calculation of the effect of sweep on the distribution of lift across the span of a monoplane wing has, so far as the present writer is…
The C.P. Position of Aerofoils: A Simple Graphical Method for the Use of the Practical Designer
Georges NovickisIT is wished to propose a simple graphical method for finding the approximate C.P. position of an aerofoil directly from the CL (CM) curve in cases where the C.P. positions are…
A Polish Commercial Aeroplane: The P.Z.L. Wicher, a Monoplane Designed and Built on Modern Lines
THE National Aircraft Establishment has in the past produced numerous interesting and novel aeroplanes (one of these, the P.Z.L.37, was described in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, July…
Microstructural X‐Ray Testing: Some Apparatuses Described, Showing the Applicability of the Method to Aircraft
A. KufferathFOR a number of years, the X‐ray macro‐structural examination of metals, alloys and other raw materials has been success‐fully applied in many factories for the detection of…
Air Ministry Official Notices
The attention of all concerned is drawn to the need for guarding against the effects of poisonous fumes when using chemical fire extinguishers of the types usually carried in…
Electrical Equipment in Aircraft: Hints for Ground Engineers on the Location and Remedy of Troubles
ALTHOUGH the Ground Engineer may take every precaution to eliminate all possible causes o{ trouble in electrical equipment, failure may occasionally develop through causes outside…
Air Ministry Contracts
The following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during June is extracted from the July issue of The Ministry of Labour Gazette:
Research Reports and Memoranda
The results are given of six‐component measurements made on a model of the “Dornier Wal” flying boat, with a plate to represent the surface of the water. Comparisons were made…
U.S. Patent Specifications
An aircraft having streamline wings, adjustable ports along the tops of the wings near their forward edges, and means for opening said ports and for shifting the port openings…
Month in the Patent Office
Means for securing fabric to a wing or the like comprises a rib or similar member having an up‐right limb a, Fig. 2, of U‐section and horizontal flanges b with downturned ends d…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb