Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 24 Issue 10

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

In Retrospect

WE are not this year, for reasons given last month, publishing a commentary provided by an outside contributor on the thirteenth S.B.A.C. Display and indeed the new types…

Solutions of Problems on the Slightly Curved Beam: An Extension of the Theory and the Drawing of Polar Diagrams

J. Ratzersdorfer

A slender beam with slight geometrical curvature is divided in bays with different cross‐sections subjected to uniformly distributed and concentrated transverse loads. Combined…

High Temperature Thermodynamic Processes: Their Generalized Treatment, with Particular Application to Rocket Motors

F.E. Osborne

AT temperatures commonly attained in the reaction of liquid propellents at operative pressures in rocket combustion chambers, the significant gaseous end products can be shown to…

Dynamic Reactions in Hop Dampers for Bogie Undercarriages: Calculation of the Effects of Sudden Application of the Wheel Brakes

J. Nightingale

THE function of hop damper units as fitted to modern multi‐wheel bogie undercarriages is to dissipate the kinetic energy of the bogie, wheels and brakes due to their rotation…

The Saunders‐Roe Princess Flying Boat: A General Description of the Aircraft Giving Details of the Principal Features of the Design

M.J. Brennan

In this article the requirement leading to the design is discussed and this is followed by a general description of the aircraft and its operating efficiency. The accommodation is…

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Notes on Centrifugal Compressors

Thompson

To the Editor Dear Sir, I wish to make some comments on the article in your August issue entitled ‘Some Notes on Centrifugal Compressors’ by L. N. Thompson. This is a distinct…

Research Reports and Memoranda

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

The International Machine Tool Exhibition: A Selection of Machines and Equipment Shown at the Exhibition held at Olympia from September 17 to October 4, 1952

Five hobbing machines and a selection of hobs and gear‐cutting tools were shown by this Manchester company at the Exhibition. Of these the MT‐V spline hobbing machine is a new…

Month in the Patent Office

A blade for a rotary wing system comprises a spar, metal skin and a scries of shaping members extending between the leading and trailing edges, at least two of these members being…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aircraft having a cabin space and a propulsive engine provided with a lubricating system circulating hot oil including a duct for carrying hot oil from the engine and for…

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