Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 22 Issue 12

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

Second Thoughts

WE very much appreciate being permitted to publish the report of the U.S. Air Force Transport Command's inquiry into ‘customer reaction’ to the fitting of rear‐wardly facing seats…

Flight on Asymmetric Engine Power: A Discussion of the Dangers Involved and an Assessment of the Relative Merits of the Methods of Overcoming them

F/Sgt Pilot I.

IN recent years the problems involved in flight on asymmetric power have attracted increasing attention and curiosity. It is safe to state that at the beginning of the British era…

A New Version of a Famous Transport Aeroplane: A Technical Review of the Douglas Super DC‐3 Developed from the Dakota

Stanley H. Evans

IN the Douglas Super DC‐3 twin‐engined commercial transport, now being demonstrated throughout North and South America, may be seen an instructive example of what has come to be…

The Reheat Factor in Turbines and Turbocompressors: New Formulae for Calculating the Factors for Units with Finite Stages Based on Known Methods Used on the Infinite Stage Assumption

J. Kestin

IN the preliminary calculation for the design of a gas turbine or turbocompressor it is necessary to assume a value of the reheat factor R. The contemporary development of gas…

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

J.V. Connolly

In previous divisions of this series, consideration has been given to a number of subjects which are individually parts of the process, or background, of Administration…

An Improved Casting Process with Resin‐Sand Moulds: Some Details of a New Method Evolved by the Bakelite Corporation from the Johannes Croning System

H.W. Perry

INCREASED production, reduced cost and better quality of castings are advantages claimed for a new process which was demonstrated during the week of May 8–12 at the 1950 National…

A Backward‐Facing Seat Investigation: A Report on Studies made in 1947 by the Air Transport Command, Traffic Division, U.S.A.F.

FOR some time it has been recognized that the greater part of all passenger fatalities in air transportation were the result of impact in crash landings. Since in the majority of…

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…

Tools for the Workshop

The Fielden Servograph is operated by a servo motorized mechanism which is controlled by a moving coil, moving iron, dynamometer or electrostatic movement, the pointer of the…

Trade Announcements

The Minister of Civil Aviation, Lord Pakenham, has appointed Mr J. Roland Adams, K.C., to hold a Public Court of Inquiry into the accident which occurred at Mill Hill, London…

Month in the Patent Office

In a rotary wing aircraft having two or more rotor blades either rigidly mounted or mounted on conventional flapping hinges and/or drag hinges, each blade is provided with one or…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In jet propulsion apparatus, a turbine, means providing motive fluid for the turbine and including a combustor furnished with fuel and supplied with air by a compressor driven by…

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