Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 32 Issue 8

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

A Worthy Cause

SINCE the critical days immediately prior to the Second World War when Sir Robert Watson‐Watt and his team of research workers successfully applied the principles of…

Photoelastic Measurement of Surface Strain: Investigation of a Direct Method Using an Optically Sensitive Material Bonded to the Metal Component

J.R. Linge

The technique described in this paper consists of the examination of surface strains in a metal component with optically sensitive material bonded to the component and the…

Effects of Repeated structures Thermal Loading: The Influence of the Variation of Strength with Temperature on Structural Behaviour

E.W. Parkes

A very simple redundant structure is subjected to temperature cycling, primarily to determine the influence of the yield stress/temperature relation on its behaviour: the range…

Sandwich Construction: Correlation and Extension of Existing Theory of Flat Panels Subjected to Lengthwise Compression

W.G. Heath

IN Part I of this paper, the basic equations were established for the various modes of instability of flat sandwich panels subjected to lengthwise compression. Whilst these…

Doppler Navigation System: Design Features Adopted for the CMC‐620 Series Airborne Equipment

IN autumn 1958 the Canadian Marconi Co. began large scale production of a lightweight airborne doppler navigation system. It is manufactured in accordance with ARINC Radar…

Research and Test Apparatus

Probes available for use with the Model 168, D‐K Analyser make possible non‐destructive examination of many finished parts made of glass reinforced plastics and other insulating…

The Library Shelf

D.J.M.

It is about fifteen years since the word hypersonic was used to distinguish the characteristics of the flow of a gas at high Mach numbers, say greater than five, from those of a…

International Machine Tool Exhibition: Brief Notes on a Selection of the Exhibits Displayed at Olympia from June 25 to July 8, 1960

As with so many other exhibitors the Wadkin stand showed evidence of the vast new developments in the machine tool industry with the emphasis on automatic operation on the one…

Auxiliary Equipment

The Type 1434 vibration limit controller has been introduced by Dawe Instruments Ltd., 99 Uxbridgc Road, London, W.5, to measure, monitor and record vibration in machines and…

Month in the Patent Office

Direct lift for an aircraft is provided by means of two or more fans mounted for rotation about a common axis parallel to the axis of yaw and adapted to be driven in opposite or…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a parachute canopy the combination comprises a fabric structure of inverted bowl‐like configuration developed from a plurality of individual pieces of material. The structure…

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