Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 16 Issue 12

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

EDUCATION FOR AERONAUTICS

IN October, 1943, the MINISTER OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION appointed an inter‐departmental committee “to prepare and submit detailed proposals for the establishment of a school of…

Tailless Aircraft and Flying Wings: A Study of Their Evolution and Their Problems

A. R Weyl

DURING the past 40‐odd years or so, a number of experimental aeroplane types have been invented, visualized, designed, constructed and even flown which, in a quite unorthodox…

Conditions in Diving

Zbigniew Krzywoblocki

ASSUME an aeroplane in pure dive, i.e. the motion of the centre of gravity of the aeroplane is purely vertical. The airscrew is stopped and the diving aeroplane may be treated…

Research in Australia: Function and Organization of the Council for Aeronautics

THE period from 1884 to 1937 (the events of which are summarized on earlier pages of the pamphlet) may be said to have been exploratory as regards aeronautical science in…

Testing Lubricants and Bearing Materials: A Description of a Useful Rolls‐Royce Testing Machine

V.H. Brix

THE mechanical testing of engineering materials, such as tensile testing, hardness measurements, etc., has already attained a reasonable degree of standardization. The results of…

German Radiators, Oil Tanks and Coolers

THE general appearance of this oil cooler is shown in Fig. 1. The photograph was taken after partial sectioning to show more clearly the general construction.

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a machine for bending to a desired longi‐tudinal curvature an elongated work‐piece of material having a cross section characterized by concavities, the combination of: a pair…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb