Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 13 Issue 6
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An International JournalTable of contents
THE NEED FOR CO‐OPERATIVE EFFORT
WE should like to urge upon the aircraft world an even greater degree of collaboration and unity of purpose and effort than admittedly exists today. We are aware that very…
Two‐Spar Wing Stress Analysis: A Theory Giving a Reasonable Approximation to the Stress‐Distribution in a Skin‐Covered Plane
W.J. GoodeyTHE mathematically exact determination of the stress distribution in a two‐spar skin‐covered wing is, in the present state of knowledge, an impossibility, and is in fact quite…
A Differential Control‐Unit: A Variable Gear‐Ratio Flying‐Control with an Analysis to Assist in its Application
F.E. BurgerTHE purpose of this article is to describe a useful variable velocity‐ratio unit suitable for inclusion in flying‐control circuits of aeroplanes, and to provide sufficient of a…
Aero‐Engine Pyrometer Thermocouples: Notes on the Design, Production, Inspection and Testing Thermo‐Electric Pyrometer Equipment
F.G. SpreadburyGENERALLY speaking, the demand for thermo‐electric pyrometer equipment is such that individual calibration of each instrument and its couple is possible. For the measurement of…
Aluminium‐Alloy Bronzes: A Survey of Available Data on These Materials
REVIEWED BY O. KENNEDY The designer and manufacturer of aircraft engines will be familiar with several D.T.D. Specifications covering alloys which may be classed as aluminium…
The War Damage Act 1941: The Provisions of the “Business Scheme” and its Relation to Previous British Government Enactments
IN addition to the scheme of compensation in respect of land, buildings and fixed plant and machinery which formed the subject of the article published last month, there is a…
Some Books Recently Received
This is a textbook on a subject that has been developed almost entirely within the last decade. It deals with a method of solving problems by successive approximations that have…
Tapered Spar Frames
To the Editor: DEAR SIR, With reference to my article on “Tapered Spar Frames,” published in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING for April 1941, I should like, with your permission, to clarify a…
New R. A. F. Types VI: The American Consolidated Liberator Four‐Engined Heavy Bomber
THE Liberator is one of the most distinctive four‐engined aeroplanes yet built. It has been designed round the Davis aerofoil, which was patented in the United States some years…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Cementation is a method of coating the surface of one metallic material with another metal, by which the material to be coated is surrounded with the coating material in powdered…
The Jigging of Modern Airframes: A Review of Some of the Methods used by British and Foreign Manufacturers
IT is difficult to make any very rigid classification of components and their manufacture, so this fourth article will consist of somewhat scattered examples of different…
Applications of Urea‐Formaldehyde Resin Glues
R. MaskewTHE object of this article is to deal with the present day use of urea‐formaldehyde resin glues in the aircraft industry. This type of glue is used in two spheres of the industry…
Corrosion of Fuel Tanks: American Experiences in Prevention and Cure
THE protection of aluminium and magnesium and their alloys for service in aircraft has received a considerable amount of attention and much publicity in recent months. An…
Tools for the Workshop
Particulars have recently been released of a new light duty electric hand drill in the Wolf series. This is a tool, given the trade name of Dartdrill, which is made in ¼ in. and …
Welding Stainless Aircraft Steels
DURING recent years considerable attention has been given to the welding of alloy steels. Until recently a limiting factor in the use of 18–8 stainless steels was that certain…
U.S. Patent Specifications
An air speed indicator comprising a Pitot head, pressure‐sensitive indicating means operated by changes of pneumatic pressure at the Pitot head, heating means for the Pitot head…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb