Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 18 Issue 4
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An International JournalTable of contents
Standard Symbols
LAST month we had occasion to comment adversely on the lack of standardization which characterizes domestic electric equipment, while congratulating the S.B.A.C. on its pioneering…
The DFS Reiher Sailplane: A Technical Description of an Important High‐Efficiency German Sporting Glider
B.S. ShenstoneBECAUSE soaring flight is a peacetime pursuit, sailplane development since 1939 has been negligible. Effort has necessarily been diverted into the design of large military gliders…
Methods of Strength‐Testing Aeroplane Wings: Recent Types of Test Made at the R.A.E. and Reasons for Adopting Full‐Span Tests
A.W. HotsonTHE testing of an increasing number of wings of greatly varying size, design and construction has emphasized the need for careful consideration of the object of the test in…
Bending Moments in a Circular Ring by the Column Analogy
W. GittlemanTHE purpose of this paper is to present a method of determining the bending moments in a circular ring which is both speedy and accurate, and is particularly useful when dealing…
Notes on the de Havilland Goblin Jet Engine
CONTINUING our series of descriptive articles on the leading jet‐propulsion units, we deal this month with the de Havilland‐Halford Goblin. In the case of the articles on the…
Evolution of Energy for Jet and Rocket Propulsion
P. BielkowiczSpecific Heat of Gases THE chemical reaction having been accomplished and the energy of fuel released, we can follow its further transformation. It can be assumed that in the…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and technical Notes of the United Mates National…
Airframe Repairs‐Past, Present and Future
T.J. O'HalloranTHE recent winding‐up of the Owl Repair Organization signalized the end of war‐time conditions in the airframe repair industry. Yet our outlook upon repairs cannot be the same as…
A Jet Servicing Solution
The Unusual Design of the Ryan FR‐I Fireball Twin‐Engined Fighter (Wright Cyclone 1820–72 and General Electric 1–16) Created a Problem for Servicing the Rear Engine. By Fitting a…
The Graphical Representation of Hydraulic Systems: A new series of standard symbols developed during the war for use in aircraft servicing handbooks
M. HodgsonWHEN a new branch of technology emerges as an offshoot of existing practice, its results are first described in the language of the parent subject, but later, as it grows in…
Tools for the Workshop
FIGS. 1 and 2 are two views of a new Churchill centreless grinding machine. The makers claim that the control wheelhead, driving arrangements and truing device, incorporated in a…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A spinner for a rotating airscrew having a hub, said spinner comprising a shell composed of a plurality of separately detachable independent longitudinally extending sections…
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- Prof Phil Webb