Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 14 Issue 4
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THE PAPER SHORTAGE
READERS will not fail to be struck by the attenuated size of this issue; though they will, we hope, be equally quick to notice that the cutting down has been done at the expense…
Oxygen Breathing Systems
A.R. WeylTHE partial pressure of the oxygen content in the atmosphere decreases directly with the atmospheric pressure, i.e., with the altitude, the proportion of oxygen in the atmosphere…
List of Selected Translations
APPLICATIONS for the loan of copies of translations mentioned below should be addressed to the Secretary (R.T.P.3), Ministry of Aircraft Production, and copies mill be loaned as…
New R.A.F. Types
ALTHOUGH the Defiant is scarcely a new aeroplane, it makes an interesting comparison with the Rolls‐Royce Merlin single‐engined types already illustrated in this series. It is a…
The Boulton Paul Defiant
THE Defiant is a two‐seater single‐engined tractor, low‐wing monoplane armed with 4 belt‐fed ·303 in. Browning machine guns mounted in a dorsal power‐operated turret just over the…
Manometers for Routine Testing
R. Barrington BrockTHE use of manometers in the aircraft industry has extended very widely indeed since the outbreak of war, concurrently with the enormous development in aircraft instruments…
Remote Controls for Aeroplanes
R. HadekelOWING to the growing multiplicity of services and the increasing size of aircraft the problem of remote control is assuming considerable importance.
Frequency Equations
J. MorrisIN the article on simultaneous equations published in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. XI, May, 1939, pp. 199–200, the author exploited the powerful process of iteration. In the present…
Tubular Fluorescent Lamps in Industry
C.W.M. PhillipsALTHOUGH tubular fluorescent lamps have been used very extensively in industry since their introduction in March, 1940, there is still doubt in many minds as to why they should be…
Fluorescent Lighting
H.J. JenkinsTHE property possessed by certain discharges of radiating relatively large proportions of their energy in the visible part of the spectrum is well known. Thus efficiencies of the…
U.S. Patent Specifications
The method of producing a hollow metal propeller blade from a tubular blank, which consists in providing the blank on opposite sides thereof with wall‐portions of varying…
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- Prof Phil Webb