Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 32 Issue 2
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An International JournalTable of contents
United in Space
THOSE who anticipated that Britain would embark upon a full‐scale space research programme in the immediate future must have been sorely disappointed by the decisions reached by…
Creep Deformation: The Analysis of Creep in a Thin Rotating Disk with a Central Circular Hole
Mrs B.V. SarojaAN analysis of creep deformations in rotating disks of constant and variable thicknesses by experimental and theoretical methods, has been presented by Wahl and his collaborators…
The Estimation of Tail Loading Due to Elevator‐Induced Pitching Manoeuvres: A Proposal for an Approximate Analytical Method for Airworthiness Calculations
P.F. RichardsBy application of the analytical method to a wide range of current aircraft types an approximate form of the method is developed for the quick estimation of tail load maxima and…
British Space Research: Annual Report of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy, 1958–59
DURING the past year (the Advisory Council stated) we were asked to consider the question of British participation in space research and, in particular, a proposal originating…
High Energy Forming: Use of Hydrodynamic Properties to Shape Metals with the Dynapak Machine Tool
S.R. CarpenterMachine tools have been developed to produce high energy levels at high rates. It has been discovered that metals exhibit hydrodynamic properties, when subjected to these…
American Society for Testing Materials‐National Meeting: Summaries of a Selection of Symposia held in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., on October 12–16, 1959
TWENTY years ago, there was no commercial production of metal‐to‐metal adhesive‐bonded structures, and much of the recent progress has resulted from a greater understanding of the…
The Library Shelf
D.B.S.The current issue of Combustion and Flame contains five papers which will interest aircraft propulsion specialists. They have in common that they are all American and that they…
Research Reports and Memoranda
The stalling behaviour of an Orenda CT‐100 experimental two‐stage axial compressor was studied at the constant operating speed of 3,000 r.p.m. Rotating stall was observed to…
New Materials
A plastic bubble canopy that will not shatter under impact from a 0·45 calibre bullet, and is safe for temperatures up to 400 deg., has been developed by the Goodyear Aircraft…
Auxiliary Equipment
A new type of freight lift which will reduce aircraft turn‐round times is to be used by Britannia 253's in service with Transport Command. It will enable the military Britannias…
Tools for the Workshop
A range of robust dipping baskets are now offered by Tool Treatments (Chemicals) Ltd., Colliery Road, Birmingham Road, West Bromwich. These new baskets provide an advance over the…
Month in the Patent Office
To delay the full opening of a parachute after initial deployment, the skirt is provided with one or more reefing lines 20 formed with looped ends 22 which engage over a rod 16…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In an aircraft providing a finite slipstream at each side thereof, upper and lower wings having cavities and trailing edge apertures communicating with the respective cavities…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb