Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 11 Issue 8
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The Efficiency of the Modern Bomber: The Wider Significance of Recent R.A.F. Exercises
DURING the past month a series of very remarkable massed flights has been made by Royal Air Force bombing aeroplanes. At the time of writing three of these flights have taken…
Transfer of End Load in Stringers: The Stress Distribution Problem of the Bending of a Fuselage with a Symmetrical Opening
E.J. RichardsA GENERAL solution is obtained for the diffusion of stress in n equal and equally spaced stringers in a stiffened panel subject to any boundary conditions at the ends of the…
Harmonic Torque Exciters: A Mathematical Analysis of Their Motion and Loadings
B.C. CarterIN a paper on airscrew‐blade vibration, published in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society lor September, 1937, the author gave brief descriptions of different designs of…
The Reduction of Position Error: An Examination of the Points to be Watched when Installing a Pitot‐Static Head
K. KenneyRECENT tendencies in the design and operating conditions of aircraft have laid increasing emphasis on the short‐comings of the generally accepted pitot‐static method of measuring…
The Modern Twin‐Fin Tail: Basic Data on the Effect of End‐Plate Fins on Tail‐Plane Efficiency
B.S. ShenstoneTHERE are several reasons why so many of the newer aeroplanes are equipped with twin‐fin tails such as those shown in Fig. 1 (p. 312), the fins being disposed as end plates on the…
Stiffness of Beams and Cables: Transition of a Laterally Loaded Member with Tensile End Load from a “Beam” to a “Cable”
Huang YushanCONSIDER a member carrying both lateral load and axial tension, which we .shall refer to as a “ beam‐tie.” If the member is very stiff, it acts as a beam ; but as its stiffness is…
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…
Methods of Clamping Sheet Metal for Riveting
C.H. PlockIN aircraft construction and other industries using kindred materials, it is usual before the final riveting to clamp constructional parts made of sheet‐metal; especially when…
Large Flying‐Boats in Series: The Methods by which Civil and Military Flying‐Boats are Built at Rochester
THE subject of this article is different from others in our series and offers less chance of the direct comparison of methods, because the size of the machine is great and the…
Air Ministry Contracts Placed in June
THE following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during June has been extracted from the July issue of The Ministry of Labour Gazette.
Air Ministry Official Notices
With reference to Notice to Aircraft Owners and Ground Engineers No. 6/1939, the printing of Amendment List No. 5 to Volume 1 of the Air‐worthiness Handbook for Civil Aircraft…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In combination with an aeroplane having a wing with an aileron hinged to the rear portion thereof to swing up or down from a neutral position to either an ordinary or extreme…
Month in the Patent Office
In an airscrew wherein the pitch angle varies from root to tip of the blade, openings are provided on the upper surface of each blade and near the trailing edge, and extend from…
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- Prof Phil Webb