Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 13 Issue 3

THE PRODUCTION OF AEROPLANES

THIS month we are resuming the series of articles on the jigging of modern airframes which started to appear in consecutive issues at the end of the last volume. The interval has…

The Balancing of Airscrews: The Methods employed by the Hispano Suiza Firm with Descriptions of the Machines used

H. Castaing

EACH blade of an airscrew is submitted to an elementary static balance check after it has been completed. But this operation does not eliminate the necessity to carry out a…

The Influence of Span on Wing Flutter: A Polish Engineer's Extension of a Method Originated by Dr. Roxbee Cox

Zbigniew Leliwa‐Krzywoblocki

AS the basis of this examination I have taken the results obtained by H. Roxbee Cox in his “Statistical Method of Investigating Relations between Elastic Stiffnesses of…

Gradient‐Assisted Take‐Off: Calculations on the Advantages to be Gained from Taking‐off Down a Slope

R. Isermann, E. Beck

In the spring of 1937, take‐off tests down slopes of various gradients were carried out by the Flug‐technisch Institut. The gradients reached up to 35 deg. The experimental…

Flight Load Factors: The First of Two U.S. Civil Aeronautics Authority Reports for the Information of Pilots

THE values of the load factors used in de‐signing an aeroplane are almost direct measures of its strength. They also affect the weight of a certain portion of the aeroplane…

Some Books Recently Received

When the first edition of this book was published five years ago, it was considered to be something different in Engineering textbooks. It presented the “last word” on the subject…

The Jigging of Modern Airframes

If it is true to say that the primary factor governing the arrangement for the production of a fuselage is the type of structural design chosen; it is no less a fact that a wing…

Tools for the Workshop

THE need for effective washing equipment for acro‐engine parts is more important today than it has ever been. The apparatus shown in Fig. 1 is for washing engines taken from…

U.S. Patent Specifications

Walter Max Hahnemann, Berlin‐Marienfelde, and Ernst Kramar, Berlin‐Tempelhof, Germany, assignors to C. Lorenz Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin‐Tempelhof, Germany, a company. Application…