Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 20 Issue 2

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

A Question of Make‐up

THE discerning reader will observe a change in the make‐up of this month's issue, the principal item in which is the disappear‐ance of the separate Production and Maintenance…

Numerical‐Graphical Method of Stressing Hollow Girders: A Simplified Method of Stressing Developed from the Ship‐Beam System and Extended to Axial Stresses due to Torsion

J. Lockwood Taylor

THE simplified method of stressing which follows is an extension of one first developed as a means of attacking the shear‐lag prob‐lem for a ship‐beam (Trans. N.E. Coast Inst, of…

A Recording Instrument for Performance Tests: A Report on the Practical Application of an Instrument Developed by the Valtion Netallitehtaat Leutokonetehtaat (National Metal and Aircraft Factories) of Finland

Paavo Jarvenpaa

THE application of this recording instrument is in fact of very wide range. On flight tests the most varied range phenomena may be simultaneously subjected to research and it is…

Turning Errors of a Monitored Directional Gyroscope

H.L. Price

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…

Conics as Applied to Mathematical Lofting: A Report by a Canadian Engineer on the Conic Lofting Methods Investigated by Fleet Aircraft Limited for Use in their Design Offices

R.L. Morrison

THE rapid progress made in aircraft design during the past few years is demanding a more modern way of obtaining the lines of an aircraft than the older methods of lofting as…

Analysis of Engine Performance During Flight: Details of the capabilities of the new engine analyser that has been developed by the Sperry Gyroscope Company of America

John H. Jupe

IN order that a flight engineer can give maximum help in maintaining safety when in the air, it is desirable that he should have full data as to the conditions in every cylinder…

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 States National…

Tools for the Workshop

Designed and produced by Air Industrial Developments after many years of research in collaboration with the paint‐chemist and the user, the new Two‐Gun Hot Spray Unit fulfils the…

Design and Production Technique: Vl‐Principles Involved in Casting

A.J. Schroeder

FIG. 67: The by‐work for fixing the cores (a) and (b) is complicated owing to the undercutting (u) and the projection (p). The joint securing of both cores is difficult. The cores…

Trade Announcements

The Seventh International Congress of Applied Mechanics will be held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London, England, on September 5–11, 1948.

U.S. Patent Specifications

These abstracts 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 Office’…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb