Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 21 Issue 5

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

Redressing the Balance

THE first number of Aircraft Engineering appeared in March 1929 and we are taking the opportunity offered by the occurrence of the Paris Aero Salon—at which for the first time we…

Problems and Progress in Aircraft Design: Reflections on the Progress Made in the Last Twenty Years with a Glimpse into the Future Based on Recent Developments

W.S. Farren

IF variety is the spice of life, then aircraft engineers have little to complain of in their experience of the last twenty years. It is true that most of the hopes of a sane…

Aeronautical Research in Canada: The Organization of the Aeronautical Laboratories under the National Research Council and Some of the Special Problems under Investigation

J.H. Parkin

AVIATION has played and is playing an important part in the economic development of the Dominion of Canada. The mapping of huge areas has been accomplished with aircraft and the…

Aeronautical Research in Australia: The Progress Made in the Ten Years Since the C.S.I.R. Division of Aeronautics was Established and Work Started

L.P. Coombes

AERONAUTICAL research is now firmly established in Australia. Nevertheless, many people, including a large proportion of Australians, may well wonder why a country which derives…

Full‐Scale Research on a Flying Wing: Some Problems‐Encountered in the Evolution of the A.W.52 Tailless Aircraft

C.V. Murray

SIX years ago Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. began to take a serious interest in the design and development of tailless aircraft and today two types arc undergoing…

Some Aspects of Propeller Fatigue Testing: A Paper on the Practical Application of the Results of Fatigue Testing to the Design of Components

G.C.I. Gardiner

THE problems of fatigue testing are usually associated with the testing of specially machined specimens in a reverse loading machine such as the Whöler. Tests of this nature are…

The Bending of Fuselage Shells: A New Approach, Based on Laboratory Compression Tests, that is Analogous to the Calculation of the Form Factor of a Solid Beam

J.S. Taylor, R.D.M. Harper

THE paper suggests a new approach to the calculation of the bending strength of semi‐monocoque (and possibly fully mono‐coque) aircraft fuselage shells. The method described uses…

The Air Registration Board: A Progress Report on the Activities of the Board and the Results of its Work over the Past Five Years

Walter Tye

THIS article summarizes the activities of the Air Registration Board, and the results of its work, over the past five years. It is therefore in the nature of a progress report…

The Design of Redundant Structures for Minimum Weight: A Non‐Iterative Method with Simplified Arithmetical Work and its Application to the Design of a Circular Frame

E.W. Parkes

THE procedure usually adopted for the design of a redundant structure is to assume some initial distribution of material and then to stress this by strain energy methods. From the…

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…

Tools for the Workshop

Evidence of careful thought in the design of adjustable spanners and wrenches is welcome. The adjustable spanner that slips round the nut and causes barked knuckles docs so for a…

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