Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 23 Issue 2
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An International JournalTable of contents
Brabazon Reflexions
IT is a little difficult to understand why so much excitement has been caused in the popular Press by the announcement of the decision come to by the Ministry of Supply to…
Airworthiness Requirements and Fatigue of Helicopters: Some Unconventional and Controversial Reflexions on the True Significance of Failures and How to Avoid Them
J. ShapiroPROFESSOR PUGSLEY was the first to have popularized the term ‘philosophy’ in connexion with airworthiness. Generally, unless structures are completely safe they are regarded as…
The International Civil Aviation Organization Requirements: A Review of the Development of International Airworthiness and Operational Performance Requirements
K.G. WilkinsonSINCE 1945 discussion of international standards for the fundamentals of civil aviation has been going on in the divisions and council of I.C.A.O. A highly controversial part of…
Fuel Testing in Gas‐Turbines: Some Effects of Atmospheric Humidity on the Operation of Combustion Chambers Used for Fuel Testing
K.J. Mackenzie, J.H. BoddyTHE performance of a gas turbine fuel can be estimated most conveniently by using a single combustion chamber test unit. Such fuel testing has often shown a lack of repeatability…
R.A.F. Mobile Instructional Units: Details of an Interesting Innovation Designed to Aid Re‐equipment Abroad
THE Air Ministry recently showed some transportable instruction units that are being sent out, under the auspices of Technical Training Command, to the Far East for the purposes…
Rotary Derivatives in Yaw: Calculation by Lifting Plane Theory of the Rolling and Yawing Moments of a Wing Due to Rotary Motion in Yaw
V.M. FalknerCalculations have been carried out on two elliptic wings, with ratios of major to minor axis 2·5 and 5 to 1 respectively, in order to demonstrate the use of vortex lattice theory…
Aircraft Engineering Reference Sheet: 7—Handley Page Marathon 1
T. TonkinThe pneumatic system operates the undercarriage, wheel brakes, flaps, windscreen wipers, fuel priming pumps and air intake shutters, Fig. 7 and its accompanying key show 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 Memoranda of the United States…
Trade Announcements
The Public Inquiry into the causes and circumstances of the accident to the British European Airways Corporation Viking aircraft at London Airport on October 31, 1950, to be held…
Month in the Patent Office
In a constant speed, variable pitch propeller an over‐ride device is automatically brought into operation to move the blades to the feathering position when the power unit stops…
U.S. Patent Specifications
An aircraft of the kind having a tail plane, and wings with ailerons which are substantially in line with the centre of gravity of the aircraft, comprising a main control, a…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb