Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 12 Issue 1

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

The Beginning of a New Year: The Events of a Twelvemonth, with a Forecast of the Future

THE start of this new year finds us involved in the war which England had been trying to avoid for a long time, though many of us had feared that, sooner or later, it was…

The German Aeronautical Industry: Some Details of the General Organization of the Enemy's Production and Particulars of the Administrative Personnel

H.J.A. Wilson

THE organization of the German aircraft industry has been set up around 5 main companies: Junkers, Heinkel, Dornier, Messerschmitt (the former Bayerische Flugzeugwerke), and…

Rotary‐Wing Aircraft: The First of a Series of Articles Summarizing the Current State of Knowledge

J.A.J. Bennett

THE conception of the rotating wing for the sustentation of aircraft has been known for the past few centuries (ref. 1), but not until recently has practical success been…

Output‐Increase in C.I. Engines: Some Methods of Obtaining Improved Performance from the Two‐Stroke Sleeve‐Valve Type

G.S. Kammer

THE output‐increase of the two‐stroke C.I. engine seems to be closely connected with the future possibilities of sleeve valve development. More than any other constructional…

Steel and Duralumin Beams: The Considerations Involved in Replacing a Steel Beam by One of Duralumin

Leslie P. Dudley

ALTHOUGH it is common knowledge that a steel beam may be replaced by a geometrically similar duralumin beam, with a resultant saving in weight, it is not so generally known that…

Non‐Magnetic Materials for Aircraft: A Survey of Some of the Metals Available for Such Parts as Controls, Nose‐Wheels, etc.

R. Hadekel

THE existence of compass errors on ships resulting from the presence of masses of iron in the vicinity of the compass and the method of compensating such errors have been known…

Air‐Intake Efficiency: Preliminary Investigations into the Effects of Air‐Intake Shape on Power at Altitude

S. Riess

WITH the increasing speed of modern aircraft it becomes pertinent to give some more thought to the correct shaping of carburettor air‐intakes.

Cathode‐Ray Undercarriage Testing: A New Method of Recording the Results Obtained with Static Tests on Undercarriage Units

A NEW type of undercarriage recording apparatus has recently been installed by Aircraft Components, Ltd. In order to reproduce landing conditions in the factory all undercarriages…

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…

Interchangeability in Modern Production: Methods Adopted in the Engineering, Tooling, Fabrication and Assembly Departments of an American Factory

Courtney J. Hertel

AS users and builders of automobiles, we are so accustomed to thinking in terms of interchangeable manufacturing that we take it for granted even in the case of the aeroplane. It…

Welding Technique in Aircraft Construction: Some Practical Hints on the Welding of Steel Tubes

Kurt Queitsch

The formation of internal stresses is mainly caused by contraction of the material. As the magnitude of shrinkage is dependent upon many factors, it cannot be predicted with…

A Wide‐Range Universal Dividing Head: Some Details of a Universal Dividing Head for Which a Wide‐Range Attachment is Available

THE Cincinnati universal dividing head is a well‐known machine shop fitting, and it is only proposed to describe its construction in outline, but the newer wide‐range divider for…

Tools for the Workshop

Fig. 1 shows one of the many useful testing machines produced by W. and T. Avery Ltd. This particular apparatus illustrated, called the Avery Self‐Indicating Universal Testing…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aircraft sustaining rotor having a hub and a blade, mechanism for mounting the blade on the hub including a housing having an enlarged inboard portion and an outboard…

Month in the Patent Office

A hollow airscrew blade is formed from preformed complementary moulded plastic sections, the joint lines of which extend along the leading and trailing edges, the sections being…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb