Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 32 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents
Pattern of the Industry
ON December 17 the Boards of Hawker Siddeley Ltd. and de Havilland Holdings Ltd. announced that they had agreed to recommend a merger of the two companies. This agreement thus…
The Estimation of Tail Loading Due to Elevator‐Induced Pitching Manoeuvres: A Proposal for an Approximate Analytical Method for Airworthiness Calculations
P.F. RichardsThe general reasons for considering a fresh approach to the calculation of air‐worthiness design tail loads and associated torques due to elevator‐induced pitching manoeuvres are…
Magnesium and Aircraft Engineering: The Second of a Series of Articles Describing the Materials Used in Aircraft Construction
A.J. Kennedy, A.R. SollarsMAGNESIUM, because of its low density, has obvious possibilities as an aircraft structural material. The useful magnesium alloys have densities in the range 1·76 to 1·83, compared…
Nomogram Analysis for Ducted Fans with Pre‐rotation: A Method Extended to Include the Flow Condition in which an Upstream Swirl Velocity Exists
M.M. Gibson, J.F. NorburyIN order to determine the performance of a ducted fan over a range of off‐design operating conditions it is possible to use the nomogram method of analysis described by J. F. M…
The Library Shelf
R.D.M.Within the compass of three hundred and seventy pages Dr Pai sets down an account of the theory of compressible flow which is surprisingly comprehensive. Such compactness has its…
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 furnace is resistance heated with molybdenum windings, which can raise the temperature of the hot zone to a maximum of 1,500 deg. C. The hot zone is 24 in. in diameter, and 30…
Research and Test Apparatus
S. Edelman and associates of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards have recently developed a new vibration analyser, that can be used for determining vibration characteristics of…
Month in the Patent Office
In parachute equipment where in a stabilizing parachute stabilizes an aviator during a free fall, a barometric device, armed by the same act as the release of the stabilizing…
U.S. Patent Specifications
Aircraft barrier undercarriage wheel wickets adapted to be mounted across an aircraft runway in the path of the landing wheels of a landing aircraft, and means for moving the…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb