Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 32 Issue 10
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An International JournalTable of contents
On With the Show
IT has come to be expected that succeeding Farnborough shows will be bigger and better, and this year was no exception. The flying display, although involving only one entirely…
Design for Minimum Weight: Considerations Based on the Long Wave Instability of Stiffened Plates in Compression
S. YusuffA new approach to the problem of minimum‐weight design of stiffened compression panels is presented. It is predominantly based on the plate instability mode in which the sheet and…
Photoelastic Measurement of Surface Strain: Investigation of a Direct Method Using an Optically Sensitive Material Bonded to the Metal Component
J.R. LingeThe investigations have been primarily concerned with some of the practical problems associated with the metoplastic technique, they have in this respect attempted to solve some…
The Twenty‐First S.B.A.C. Show: A Review of a Selection of the Exhibits at the Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Flying Display and Exhibition, Farnborough, 1960
THE convincing demonstrations of smooth and completely controlled transition from vertical to horizontal flight by the Short S.C.1 must surely be regarded as the highlight of the…
Effect of Structural Damping on Panel Flutter: Stability of Two‐Dimensional Simply‐Supported Panels Using Linear Piston Theory
D.J. Johns, P.C. ParksThe effect of structural damping on panel flutter has received little treatment in the literature but the available information suggests that such an effect may be destabilizing…
Reduction of Bending Moment at the Root of a Rotor Blade: Effects of Replacing Elastic Beam‐type Flapping Hinge by Leaf Springs
H.P. van LeeuwenIt is shown that a reduction of the bending moments in a helicopter rotor blade may be achieved by replacing an elastic beam‐type flapping hinge by a stack of leaf‐springs having…
Advanced Research and Development Facility: Engineering Problems Associated with the Construction of Some of the Wind Tunnels and Engine Test Cells at the Arnold Engineering Development Centre, Tennessee, U.S.A.
WHEN, at the conclusion of the Second World War, the startling accomplishments of the Germans in terms of aero‐nautical research and development were fully appreciated, steps were…
The Library Shelf: Aerodynamics of Missiles — Gas Turbine Design
J.J.S., A.D.B.This book gives an up‐to‐date account of the principal methods of analyzing the aerodynamics of missiles. It collates the theories and results of the many technical reports on the…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Technical Reports and Translations of the United States…
Auxiliary Equipment
The ‘Air‐O‐FIow’ industrial vacuum cleaner was introduced recently when it was demonstrated in a wide range of cleaning applications. The unit works on the Venturi principle from…
Research and Test Apparatus
The Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., recently began regular operation of a new hypervelocity wind tunnel. The electrical are discharge or hotshot wind tunnel is a…
Tools for the Workshop
A combined welding and cutting outfit now being introduced by British Industrial Gases, Ltd., 700 Great Cambridge Road, Enfield, Middlesex, is claimed to give substantial…
Month in the Patent Office
Aircraft arresting gear comprises a lifter strap normally connecting an actuator strap engageable by the forward part of a moving aircraft to an arresting cable through means…
U.S. Patent Specifications
An aircraft comprises a jet propulsion plant having a jet pipe terminating in a jet nozzle for the rearward discharge of a propulsive jet stream; anchorages on the aircraft; a jet…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb