Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 20 Issue 1
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Spoiling the Ship
WE are becoming increasingly perturbed at the appalling cost of the Reports and Memoranda of the BRITISH AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL as put on sale to the public by HIS…
Engineering Aspects of the Development of the Rainbow
THE Rainbow is the commercial adaptation of the XF‐12 photographic aeroplane the Republic Aviation Corporation completed for the Army Air Forces. In 1943, the Photographic Section…
Turning Errors of a Monitored Directional Gyroscope: A General Statement of the Nature and Magnitude During the Course of, and Immediately after Recovery from, a True Banked Horizontal Turn and the Influence of Residual Compass Error on the A.P.I.
H.L. PriceIT is readily understood that no instrument or measuring device can be entirely free from errors duo to physical imperfections of manufacture. Gyroscopes in particular are…
Some Bomber Range Considerations: A Modification of the well‐known Breguet Range Equation is Presented Correlating Range with Fuel, Oil and Bomb Load
J. JonesTHE range of an aircraft is given by Breguet as
The Library Shelf
It is now well known among aircraft engineers that the compressibility of the air has an increasingly important effect on the aerodynamic forces as the flight speed rises and…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda or the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and Technical Notes of the United States National…
Design and Production Technique: VI—Principles Involved in Casting
A.J. Schroeder(1) Casting technique comprises the methods of working in which liquid metal is poured into moulds.
The Planning of Aircraft Maintenance
R.E.J. WhiteThe organization which experience has shown to be necessary to keep a fleet of commercial aeroplanes in operation with the minimum number withdrawn from service for repair at any…
Tools for the Workshop
The advantages derived from the utilization of toggle‐type clamping in, the build‐up of jigs, tooling and fixtures can perhaps best be described by segregating them into their…
Trade Announcements
Following his resignation from the chairmanship of British Overseas Airways Corporation. Lord Knollys resigned from his position on the Council of the Air Registration Board.
U.S. Patent Specifications
In an aircraft having a sustaining rotor incorporating a hub and a blade, the latter being connected with the hub by means of a flapping pivot, a pitch change mounting for the…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
1929Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb