Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 20 Issue 12
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An International JournalTable of contents
Swings and Roundabouts
THERE is considerable interest at the present time in the various means of obtaining a temporary increase in aeroplane performance for some special purpose and the paper by MR A…
The Laminar Boundary Layer: New Series and Approximate Solutions of the Equations for Steady Two‐Dimensional Flow
N.A.V. Piercy, L.G. Whitehead, R.A. TylerTHE greatly increased transition Reynolds numbers now attained in the boundary layers of cylinders having favourably shaped sections have renewed interest in the solution of the…
Interference between a Tug and a Glider: Results of Flight Tests made in the Netherlands to Determine the Influence of the Wake of the Tug upon the Glider's Performance
L.L. Th. HulsWHEN considering the dynamics of a combination of a tug and a glider one is apt to neglect the interference effects between the two aircraft, especially when the towing cable has…
Power Boosting of Jet Engines by Reheat: An Exposition of the Theoretical Advantages Proved by Experiments carried out on a Welland Engined Meteor
A.D. Baxter, C. KellIT is well known that aircraft designers and operators are never satisfied for very long with the power available from the engines installed in their aeroplanes. They arc always…
The Technique of Wire Locking: The Tightening Up of Regulations Has Caused Designers and Manufacturers to Pay More Attention to the Technique Employed in the Wire Locking of Fuel and Oil Pipes
J.W. TomlinsonIN the past designers and draughtsmen have been inclined to regard wire locking as the Cinderella of locking devices. The practical man frowned on the method and looked upon the…
Aircraft Maintenance in the Netherlands
IN a small country like Holland there is little room for rival concerns and it is not surprising that the aircraft industry is centred on single firms for its different spheres of…
The Aérosudest SE‐I0I0
IN our July issue wc published a very fully illustrated description of the new French high‐altitude, photographic survey aeroplane designed by the Société Nationale de…
An Airline Maintenance Base in the U.S.A.: An Account of the Elaborate Equipment at the United Air Lines Maintenance Base at San Francisco
H.W. PerryAIRLINE and military aviation leaders from many countries who have visited the recently completed United Air Lines maintenance base at San Francisco to observe the layout, special…
Designing a Modern Electrical Installation: Some Features and Equipment of the Airspeed Ambassador: Planned Weight Reduction, ‘Open’ Cables, Self‐testing Indicator Lamps, Simplified Battery Installation
F. BrookesmithSOME time before the war was over an opportunity was given me to join the Airspeed design stall, who were then in the early stages of producing the prototype Ambassador. I…
The Library Shelf
This book, of some 500‐odd pages, has for its main object the exposition of the basic theory of jet propulsion and the thermodynamics of the gas turbine and rocket types of…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Notes of the United States National…
The Representation of Streamline Shapes
C.L. KIRSTETo the Editor, Dear Sir, The series of articles in your paper, dealing with the application of conies to lofting, recalls another kind of curves for representing stream‐lined…
Trade Reviews
This well illustrated brochure gives full particulars of the high‐pressure fuel pumps, developed from the familiar Dowty ‘Live‐Line’ Pump, for gas turbine fuel systems. Sectioned…
Tools for the Workshop
News has recently been released of a gun for the application of corrosion inhibitor to the interiors of cylinder walls. &c. fig. 1. This apparatus has been evolved by Air…
U.S. Patent Specifications
These details and drawings of patents granted in the United States are taken, by permission of the Department of Commerce, from the ‘Official Gazette of the United States Patent…
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