Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 30 Issue 4
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An International JournalTable of contents
Airlines and Manufacturers
THE increasing dependence of the aircraft manufacturer on the civil airliner market has been a recurring theme in this column, reflecting the reshuffle which is inevitably going…
Some Developments and Applications of Brittle Lacquers: A Survey of Published Work and Some Original Contributions
J.R. LingeNOTWITHSTANDING the fact that there exists a considerable amount of literature published in various forms on the subject of brittle lacquers and their applications to a multitude…
The Bending of Thin Uniform Circular Rings: Some Investigations into the Behaviour of Rings under Combined Point and Distributed Loads
W.J. GoodeyIT is known that if a thin circular ring is subjected to a uniform normal loading in its own plane, of amount σ per unit length of circumference, it will become elastically…
A Numerical Note on Bearing Clearances and Shaft Stability: A Numerical Examination of Morris's Equations
J.W. Head, G.M. OultonIN a recent paper, Morris discussed the conditions for steady circular motion of a shaft, allowing for the clearances between the journals of the shaft and the bearings in which…
Plastics for Leakproof Fuel Tanks: Details of a Method of Sealing Integral Tanks
J.R. SpurgeonFOLLOWING the initial development of Convair's delta‐winged aircraft, a new concept of fuel tank design became imperative because it is necessary to use every available cubic inch…
Some Effects of Kinetic Heating on the Stiffness of Thin Wings‐II: Analysis of Flexural and Torsional Stiffnesses for Large Deformations of Thin Solid Wings
S.L. Kochanski, J.H. ArgyrisTHIS Appendix summarizes an investigation of the elastic characteristics of thin singly symmetrical parabolic wings with small initial parabolic camber subjected to non‐linear…
The Library Shelf
R.H.M., D.B.S.This book should serve as an admirable introductory text: it is very well written and organized and the approach adopted is sound. Nowadays, when a book on servomechanism theory…
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…
Research and Test Apparatus
Convair, San Diego, California, have installed a large centrifuge for testing components of the Atlas I.C.B.M. Objects weighing 2,000 lb. can be swung at 121 r.p.m. at 20 ft…
Auxiliary Equipment
An actuator has been developed by AiResearch Manufacturing Company, Los Angeles, California, which is mounted at the blade root of a helicopter hub to give fine pitch adjustments…
Month in the Patent Office
Apparatus for maintaining an aircraft at a particular altitude comprises an aneroid capsule 1 housed within a container 2 which has an opening 3 communicating with the atmosphere…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A self‐supporting shell for flying bodies, comprising in combination: a metal wire of hollow profile hellically coiled and forming the shell proper of the body, longitudinal…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb