Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 22 Issue 8

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An International Journal
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Authors Wanted

WE are very glad to have, through the courtesy of THE SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS and the kind co‐operation of the author, MR J. C. FLOYD'S account of the development of the…

Gas Turbine Combustion Efficiency Calculations: A Study of Fundamental Concepts and the Derivation of a Practical Formula

J.G. Withers

THE alternative definitions of combustion efficiency based on the ratio of actual to theoretical heat releases and of theoretical to actual fuel requirements are discussed in…

Vibration in Composite Beams: A Note on Natural Frequencies of Uncoupled Flexural and Torsional Vibrations of Composite Beams

M.Z. Krzywoblocki

AN aeroplane wing and fuselage may be treated from an analytic standpoint as two elastic beams, rigidly connected. In the present note the equations for the natural frequency…

Circular Plates of Non‐Uniform Thickness: An Approximate Method of Stressing Capable of a High Degree of Accuracy

W. Gittleman

THIS paper presents an approximate method of stressing circular plates of non‐uniform thickness subjected to symmetrical lateral loading. Although exact solutions are available…

The Development of the Avro C102 Jetliner

J.C. Floyd

ON August 10, 1949, the Avro C102 jet transport, now better known as the Jet‐liner, made its first flight.

Exothermic Decomposition of Nitromethane: An Account of some Pre‐War Italian Experiments on a Prospective Fuel for Stratospheric Engines

W.G. Cass

DETAILS have recently been published of work undertaken at the Aeronautical Engineering School in Rome in connexion with stratospheric aero‐engines, started just before the war…

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

J.V. Connolly

5.31. There are two primary kinds of knowledge. The first includes all that class which is instinctive, intuitive, or accepted as a fact of authority (i.e. one which really arises…

The I.Ae.S. Annual Summer Meeting: Official summaries of the papers read during the sessions held on July 12 and 13 in the Institute's new Western Headquarters Building, 7660 Beverley Boulevard, Los Angeles

In the aerodynamic design of vehicles for supersonic flight it is essential that the limits of the important aerodynamic variables lift, drag, moment and centre of pressure as…

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

Civil Aircrew Technical Training Course The College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, Chelsea, started in July a new course of evening classes in aircrew technical…

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