Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 33 Issue 10
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Farnborough and the Future
DESPITE the inclement weather during the early part of the week, and the renewed vigour of the critics, the 1961 S.B.A.C. Flying Display and Exhibition was an unquestioned…
Transient Temperature Distributions in an Insulated Multi‐Spar Wing: An Approximate Method of Solution for a Structure Subjected to Aerodynamic Heating Based on a System of Regions Having Similar Rates of Temperature Rise
E.C. CapeyAn approximate method is employed to derive the transient temperature distributions and thermal stresses in an idealized insulated multi‐spar wing subjected to aerodynamic…
Topographical Navigation Display: Description of the Experimental Instrument Developed and Constructed at the R.A.E., Farnborough
K.R. HonickFLIGHT experience during recent years with roller strip maps driven from Doppler groundspeed data in an ‘along’ and ‘across’ track mode has demonstrated many of the undoubted…
Glass Fibre Rocket LauncherGlass Fibre Rocket Launcher: Details of the Polyester Resin Units Produced by Microcell Ltd.
THE Microcell glass fibre rocket launcher originated to a Government specification which was aimed at accommodating the 2‐in. rocket armament currently used for air‐to‐air and…
Design of Wind Tunnel Contractions: A Method Based on the Use of the Schwarz‐Cristoffel Transformation for Incompressible Inviscid Flow
R. JordinsonA method is given for the design of a two‐dimensional wind tunnel contraction for incompressible inviscid flow. The contraction is considered to join parallel channels of…
Lightning Assembly: A Series of Photographs Illustrating the Construction of the English Electric Supersonic Fighter Aircraft
The first pre‐production English Electric Lightning made its first flight on April 3, 1958, and by December of that year the first six had flown. By September 1959 all twenty…
The Twenty‐Second 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, 1961
DESPITE the fact that the number of new aircraft appearing at Farnborough is an unreliable yard‐stick with which to measure the progress of the British aerospace industry, it is…
The Library Shelf
There can be few weight, structural or aircraft performance engineers who have not made recourse to Shanley's work on optimum design. The new Dover Publications' paper‐backed…
Auxiliary Equipment
The first Fibreglass‐reinforced plastic undercarriage for aircraft has been produced by AB Malmo Fly‐gindustri, a unit of Trelleborg Rubber Company, Malmo, Sweden. Designed for…
Research and Test Apparatus
A laboratory which will provide complete research and development capabilities for ion, arcjet and colloid thrust devices as well as propellent feed systems, controls and…
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…
Aviation Electronics
A new type of minute electronic component developed by Short Brothers & Harland Ltd., for use in the guidance system of the Seacat guided missile incorporates a unique metal film…
Tools for the Workshop
Dowding and Doll Ltd., 346 Kensington High Street, London, W.14, showed a number of new machine tools at the Seventh European Machine Tool Exhibition recently held in Brussels.
British Patent Abridgments
A guided missile controlled in flight by means of jets directed on to flaps 5 has the wings 2 mounted for rotation about an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the…
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- Prof Phil Webb