Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 29 Issue 12

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

Men and Knowledge

THE practical effects on the industry of changed defence policy can now be seen with more clarity than when the famous White Paper was published. The intervening period has been…

Establishment of Lift on an Aerofoil with a Jet Flap: A Theoretical Note Relating to a Wing with Trailing Edge Jet with Extension to Cover Wings of Finite Span

R. Hirsch, Ingr. Dr

The circulation which is established around an aerofoil section which has i trailing edge jet, and thus also the lift, is directly dependent on a trailing edge condition similar…

Testing Airborne Electrical Equipment: New Facilities of the Aircraft Electrical Equipment Division of the English Electric Co. Ltd. at Bradford

SPECIAL facilities, some of which are illustrated here, have been installed at the Bradford works of English Electric's Aircraft Equipment Division for the development and…

The Bending Stresses in Cantilever Plates by Moiré Fringes: An Experimental Technique giving Directly the Gradient at all Points on a Model's Surface

P.J. Palmer

The bending stresses in plate models can be determined by means of the experimentally produced moire fringes, which Rive directly the gradients at all points of the surface of the…

Some Effects of Kinetic Heating on the Stiffness of Thin Wings

To the Editor, DEAR SIR: WE regret that a serious numerical error occurred in the calculations leading to FIGS. 12–16 of our article in the October 1957 issue of AIRCRAFT…

The Impact of Bearing Clearances on Shaft Stability: A New Approach to Shaft Balancing

J. Morris

It is shown that the clearances between the journals of a shaft and the bearings in which it runs may give rise to a species of unbalance and that unless this unbalance is…

Eighth International Astronautical Congress: Summaries of Some of the More Important Papers given at the Congress Held in Barcelona, October 6–12, 1957

G.V.E. Thompson

Data on the behaviour of materials at high temperatures are needed to improve current designs for missile skins, rocket motors, gas turbines and nuclear applications, but it is…

The Library Shelf

J.T., P.A.T.C., E.T., A.E.J., D.B.S.

There are sixteen papers in the present volume, of which three are on photoelasticity, five on other means of making strain measurements, three on the use of electrical resistance…

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…

Auxiliary Equipment

Firth Cleveland Instruments Ltd., Treforest, Glamorgan, the newly formed subsidiary company of Simmonds Aerocessories Ltd., have received M.O.S. approval for their Flowmeter…

Research and Test Apparatus

A new semi‐automatic ultrasonic flaw detector—claimed to be unique in this country and possibly in Europe—has been developed for their own use by James Booth & Co. Ltd., Argyle…

Month in the Patent Office

A bomb bay in an aircraft has a pair of doors each of which opens solely by rotation about a fixed axis parallel with the fore and aft axis of the aircraft to a position in which…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a supersonic aircraft, a fuselage, a plurality of aerofoils fixed relative to said fuselage including top and bottom surfaces, said aerofoils being longitudinally spaced from…

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