Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 17 Issue 11

In the melting‐pot again

BRITISH Civil Aviation has been dragged into the arena of party politics and has become the handmaiden of political expediency. That is what the recently announced Government…

Deflexion of Tapered Beams: The Case of Cantilever Beams with Lateral and End Loads

R. Tatham, H.L. Price

IN the following investigation we consider the deflection due to bending of a tapered cantilever beam carrying concentrated end and lateral loads at the free tip. The mode of…

Adiabatic Air Flow

G.B. Saksena

IN most aerodynamical problems it is convenient to consider the aircraft to be stationary and the air to be flowing with a speed equal to the flight speed in a direction opposite…

Modern Aeroplane Types

The Vickers‐Armstrongs Viking I Twin‐engined Feeder‐line Air Liner

High‐Lift Devices and Tailless Aeroplanes

A.R. Weyl

Assisted high‐lift devices which are based on the removal or the addition of air jets from the flow over the wings may be classified as follows, in accordance with their method of…

Aeronautical Research Council Reports

Measurements have been made of the drag of circular cylinders of 3/16 to 1 in. diameter at speeds up to M=0·85 by means of the electrical balance in the Circular High‐Speed Tunnel…

Design and Production Technique: IV. Principles Involved In Drawing

A.J. Schroeder

DRAWING technique comprises the methods of working in which hollow components are formed from plane material by means of a drawing die ring and a drawing punch and, if necessary…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a wing construction for an aeroplane, the combination of a sheet metal surface, a channel‐shaped stringer member having outwardly extending flanges secured to said sheet metal…