Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 26 Issue 4

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

The Modern School

THE paper by Dr J. H. ARGYRIS which we publish in this issue is of unusual interest and importance. In conjunction with Mr P. C. DUNNE the author has been responsible for great…

The Open Tube: A Study of Thin‐Walled Structures such as Interspar Wing Cut‐outs and Open‐section Stringers

John H. Argyris

WE define as an open tube a thin‐walled structure, the cross‐section of which does not include any closed circuit. This property is common, for example, to the curved channel, the…

The Elementary Theory of Aero‐Elasticity: A Series of Articles Written from the Standpoint of a Structural Engineer for Students and Junior Members of Aircraft Design Teams

E.G. Broadbent

IN Part I wc saw how structural flexibility could introduce aerodynamic forces which might eventually lead to instability, or to the complete nullification of a desired…

A De‐Icing Heater Element Applied by Spraying: Some Details of a Process by which a Conducting Heater Element can be Applied to Surfaces

D NAPIER and Son Ltd. have developed a thermal de‐icing or anti‐icing system which can be applied to any suitable surface by a sequence of spraying operations. An insulating layer…

S.A.E. Annual Meeting: Summaries of a Selection of the Papers Presented at the Meeting Held at Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., on January 11–15, 1954

A brief comparison of tooling techniques in the automotive and aircraft industries. One problem arising where the same tooling shop is used lies in the difference between 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…

Tools for the Workshop

The tools usually used for stretch forming arc principally constructed of wood as two complementary portions of a box shaped to receive a particular section and form it to a…

Month in the Patent Office

A fully power‐operated control system, shown in fig. 1 applied to the clcvons of a tailless aircraft, includes a hydraulic actuator 65, 70 which is rendered irreversible under air…

U.S. Patent Specifications

For propelling an aeroplane, a gas turbine engine comprising a compressor assemblage having a low‐pressure air compressor and a high‐pressure air compressor, combustion equipment…

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