Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 22 Issue 10

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

The Shop Window

ONCE more it falls to our lot to set down our impressions of an S.B.A.C. Display, the reviewing of which we have entrusted again to Mr Huls who, readers will remember, first…

Farnborough 1950: A Review of the Eleventh Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Flying Display and Exhibition

L.L.Th. Huls

THE Eleventh S.B.A.C. Display, held at Farnborough, September 5 to 10, has marked another year of sustained progress in the British Aircraft Industry. Although the advances since…

The Development of Jet Helicopters in France: An Account of the Work that is Being Done at the Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud‐Ouest

André Charriou

THE S.N.C.A.S.O. has specialized in France in developing the jet helicopter, a technique that is the subject of widespread research throughout the world.

Sweepback and Wing Taper: The Effect of Sweepback on the Lift, Drag, and Aerodynamic Centre of a Tapered Wing

V.M. Falkner

1. IN R. & M. 2596 and another report, the I latter concerned mainly with compressibility effects, the writer has considered the aerodynamic loading due to incidence of a number…

A K.L.M. Servicing Innovation: Some Details of a Test Trolley for the Wright R‐2800 Engines of the DC‐6

THE general purpose of the test trolley is to replace the operating and control mechanics in the cockpit so that each engine can be tested before being mounted in position on the…

Drawing for Reproduction: Some Notes on the Difficulties and Dangers to be Avoided when Drawing for Mechanical Printing

WE recently received a pamphlet entitled ‘Mechanical Drawings for Reproduction in Printed Matter’, that had so obviously been based upon the very troubles we frequently meet in…

Production Engineering, Administration and Management: A Series of Articles Providing a Complete Survey of the Economics of Production for Aeronautical Engineers

J.V. Connolly

6.51 Work Measurement is sometimes used as a new and more popular term for ‘time study’. In this chapter it will be used to cover a wider field, which, while it includes ‘time…

An Inexpensive Cutting Tool: A New Method of Blanking Development by the Boeing Airplane Company

E. Carpenter

IN the Boeing factory today stack after stack of shiny duralumin and stainless‐steel ‘cookies’ are being sliced out of raw stock in the same way that cooks used to slice them out…

British Standard Specifications

The procedure stipulated in this British Standard is for use in conjunction with certain ‘L’ specifications in the scries of British Standards for aircraft materials, and is also…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Techical Memoranda of the United States…

Trade Announcements

A monthly feature giving news of recent Government and professional appointments, industrial changes and business appointments, etc.. Aluminium Laboratories Limited, of Banbury…

Month in the Patent Office

A control member for aeroplanes comprises a universally mounted hand lever 1 carried by an arch or bridge‐shaped member 5, one extremity of which moves in a slot 4 in a stationary…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a gas turbine power plant including fuel combustion means, a gas turbine operative by motive fluid therefrom, and a compressor driven by said turbine to supply air under…

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