Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 15 Issue 5

POST‐WAR RECONSTRUCTION

THERE are those who argue that all efforts should, for the present, be exclusively devoted to the prosecution of the war, and that no one has a right in these days to be looking…

Stressed‐Skin Wooden Construction: Weight and Strength Compared with Aluminium Alloys

W. Stepniewski

In strength problems of stresscd‐skin constructions, the outside shape of a part to be stressed as well as the loads sustained by it are generally given. Having this data, the…

Analytical Geometry in Common Layouts: I. The Case of Retraction of an Undercarriage about a Single Axis

S.J. Garvey, K.W. Hetzel

EXPERIENCE has shown that the common method of “laying out” geometrical problems on the drawing board leads to a large expenditure of man‐hours and, in general, a result of…

Carburettor Air‐Scoops

Frank C. Mock

IN our recent intensive efforts to carry aeroplane performance to higher speeds and altitudes, we have encountered many complex problems in apparently simple development of…

Vibration Resistance of Engineering Materials

C.W.

This is a paper read before the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders on May 15, 1942, and is reprinted from its Transactions.

Combined Raw Materials Board: First Annual Report

The Combined Raw Materials Board was set up on January 26, 1942, by decision of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, arrived at during the…

SAMPLING INSPECTION & QUALITY DETERMINATION

H. Rissik

JUST over a year ago the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers held a joint meeting in London to discuss “The Application of Statistical Control to the…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aircraft control mechanism, an auxiliary airfoil fixed on spaced support arms, said arms being mounted on guideways and in parallel relation for chordwise movement, and…