Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 26 Issue 11

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

Valuable Studies

THE present term has seen the inauguration at Cambridge of a new college for women undergraduates, additional to the long‐existing Girton and Newnham. The foundation of New…

The Spinning of Modern Aircraft: A Review of the Nature of Spinning, Methods of Recovery, and Escape from Spinning Aircraft

T.H. Kerr

SPINNING is a rather complicated subject but it is possible to present quite a broad view without going into too much detail so that one can appreciate the way in which the…

High Offset Flapping Pin Rotor Analysis: The Dynamics of a Rotor with High Flapping Pin Offset and Coupling between Flapping and Feathering

P.R. Payne

The theory of rotor dynamics given in Ref. 1 is extended to include the effects of coupling between feathering and flapping (δ3 angle) and flapping hinge offset. Both introduce…

Energy Theorems and Structural Analysis: A Generalized Discourse with Applications on Energy Principles of Structural Analysis Including the Effects of Temperature and Non‐Linear Stress‐Strain Relations

J.H. Argyris

IT is natural in reviewing the developments of Sections 3 and 4 to inquire if it is possible to enlarge upon the conception of complementary work and strain energy in a similar…

A Note on the Escalator Process: Routh's Stability Criteria for Polynomial Characteristic Equations Derived by Algebra

J. Morris, J.W. Head

If an algebraic polynomial equation has roots which are negative if real and have negative real parts if complex, the coefficients must satisfy certain fundamental conditions…

A Descriptive Geometry Solution of Some Undercarriage Problems: A Treatment of Three Important Cases

L.S. Bialkowski

This Paper presents a few examples of Descriptive Geometry applied to the Undercarriage design:(1) Retraction mechanism geometry.(2) A method of checking clearances between moving…

The Wright Brothers' Papers: A Record of Painstaking Research and Experiment

V.D. Naylor

It is a popular belief that Newton discovered gravitation through being hit on the head by a falling apple. How simple it all was.

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

A.P.V.‐Paramount Ltd., Wandsworth Park, S.W. 18, announce that Mr J. F. B. Jackson, B.Sc, A.R.I.C., F.I.M., has joined their Board as director in charge of their new foundries…

Month in the Patent Office

Components such as propeller or helicopter rotor blades, wings, or structural members consist of an outer shell of thin metal, plastic or plywood, with an internal supporting…

U.S. Patent Specifications

An aircraft comprising in combination, a fuselage having an empennage and forward propulsive means, a disk‐shaped aerofoil mounted on said fuselage for universal inclination…

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