Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 21 Issue 3

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

Another Milestone

IN the words used by a famous Prime Minister when introducing a broadcast address to the British nation, ‘How quickly the years pass’. It is difficult to believe that another…

The Statistical Analysis, of Experimental Data: A Fresh Approach Employing a Graphical Method for Investigating Non‐Normal Frequency Distributions

B. Saravanos

WHILE the introduction of statistical methods into the analysis of aeronautical experimental data, whether for quality control in production, for the interpretation of the results…

The Annual Meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences: Impressions by Dr Alexander Klemin of the Principal Papers Presented during the Seventeenth Meeting of the Institute, held in New York, January 24–27, 1949

THE aerodynamic sessions of this year's Annual Meeting were not quite as dramatic as in some preceding years. But how can such sessions remain always at the highest pitch…

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Manufacturing the Alvis Leonides: An Account by the Technical Editor of the Methods Adopted for the Making of Britain's only 500 h.p. Aero‐Engine

AN article on the production of an acro‐engine is far more difficult to write than one about an airframe, for the majority of the operations take place in the machine shop…

The Library Shelf

From the foreword it is learned that Mr H. H. Haase has been employed by the Republic Aviation Corporation of America for some years on the development of analytical curves as…

Factors Affecting the Design of an Air Conditioning and Pressurizing System: The Desirable conditions from the Point of View of Comfort of Passengers Approached from the Physiological Aspect

P.E.R. Brice

IN designing for passenger comfort in modern commercial aircraft, many laboratory tests and research investigations have shown that the fundamental requirement for human comfort…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under (his heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Notes of the United States National…

Trade Announcements

In accordance with a recent announcement by the Minister of Civil Aviation in the House of Lords, the Air Transport Advisory Council has undertaken the responsibility of advising…

Tools for the Workshop

Robustly built for heavy duty and capable of perfect rivet forming, the Grampus, distributed by C. Casper and Co. Ltd. of 146–7 Grosvenor Road, S.W.1, will close a ¼ in. steel…

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…

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