Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 20 Issue 4

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

An Essay in Nostalgia

FOLLOWING on the beating of the 100‐kilometre ‘closed circuit’ speed record, by the de Havilland Vampire and Meteor, the Supermarine Attacker and now the D.H. 108 successively…

A Further Development in Calculating the ‘Take‐off to 50 ft.’ Distance of an Aeroplane

G. John

A SERIES of laborious calculations of take‐off distance indicated the desirability of expressing propeller thrust as a function of speed in the take‐off range so that the ground…

German Aircraft Maintenance: A description of the servicing organization of the Luftwaffe as it was at the close of hostilities in Europe, which we now publish in the belief that it is of general interest, even at this late date

THE information contained in this report was gathered from Allied documents on the German Air Force, from prisoner of war interrogation reports, from interrogation of German…

The Treatment of Continuous Beams by the Moment Distribution Method

D.A.C. Nicholls

THE method which is to be outlined is not a new way of approaching continuous beam problems, it was first introduced in America by Professor Hardy Cross, and appears to be little…

Discharge Coefficients of Chamfered Orifices and Nozzles: An account of a series of experiments carried out in order to determine the effect of chamfer on the variation of discharge co‐efficient

R.A. Collacott

REFERENCE has frequently been made to the increase in the discharge coefficient of chamfered orifices and nozzles, yet few investigations have been made to study these variations…

A New Ship‐Plane Formula: Preliminary details of one of the first post‐war French military aircraft to be completed, the Société Nationale de Constructions d'Aéronautiques du Centre NC‐1070

AT the last Paris Salon the primary interest of the French Government in naval aircraft was apparent in the showing of the Nord 1500 Noréclair and a model of the Aerocentre…

K.M. Alloy Blanking and Press Bend Tools: Particulars of the Experiences of Percival Aircraft Ltd., of Luton, in the use of Alloy Tools in the Production of Detail Parts

Percival Aircraft Ltd. have recently adopted a most interesting sytem for the economical manufacture of small part press tools. The material used is the K.M. Alloy low…

The Annual Meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences: Impressions by Dr Alexander Klemin of the principal papers presented during the Sixteenth Meeting of the Institute, held in New York, January 26th‐29th, 1948

In this informal symposium, presided over by R. D. Kelly, United Air Lines, after talks, rather than the reading of papers, the pilots concerned assembled on the rostrum and…

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…

U.S. Patent Specifications

Except where otherwise stated, the specification is unaccompanied by drawings if none is reproduced.

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