Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 33 Issue 11
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An International JournalTable of contents
Pictorial Presentation
IT was a black day for the Decca Navigator Company, and for British aviation as a whole, when on April 8, 1960, the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization…
Estimation of Scale Effects in Axial Flow Fans: A Simple Method of Analysis Which Compares the Losses in the Rotor, Guide Vanes and Diffuser of a Model and a Prototype
P.S. BarnaThe losses in a fan unit consisting of rotor, guide vanes and tail fairing have been studied and the average losses are expressed in terms of non‐dimensional similarity…
Design and Operation of Airborne Refrigeration Equipment: Solutions to Some of the Problems Associated With Vapour‐Cycle Systems Under Extreme Environmental Conditions
J.D. GurneyThis paper presents some of the problems associated with the design and operation of airborne vapour cycle refrigeration equipment, created by the extreme environmental…
Air Temperature Nomogram: A Rapid and Accurate Method for Obtaining True Air Temperatures from Indicated Air Temperatures for Aircraft Resistance Thermometers
W.G. DurbinCONVENTIONAL aircraft thermometers are of the platinum‐resistance type, comprising one arm of a Wheatstone bridge network. The meter connected to the network is graduated on a…
Technical Training Rocket Rig: Details of the Hilton Solid Propellent Rocket Equipment
HAVING already produced a ramjet test rig for universities and technical colleges, it was found that a demand existed for this and other types of apparatus for the particular…
Engines for Supersonic Civil Transport Aircraft: Design Problems Associated With Flight in the Mach 2 to 3 Range
J.G. KeenanBecause of its high overall pressure ratio and good propulsive efficiency, the jet engine is very efficient for supersonic propulsion. A high thrust per unit power plant frontal…
Emergency Arresting System: Details of the System Designed and Developed
R.A.E. BedfordTHE purpose of this arresting system, which was demonstrated with the aid of a Supermarine Scimitar equipped with conventional naval deck‐landing hook at this year's Farnborough…
The Library Shelf
Over the years, theories of the forces on bodies moving with purely subsonic or purely supersonic velocities through gases have been evolved as required by current aeronautical…
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…
Research and Test Apparatus
Direct recording of high speed physical phenomena within the frequency range of d.c. to 5,000 c.p.s. is possible with a new ultragraph produced by the ABEM Company of Stockholm.
Auxiliary Equipment
Perkins Mars gas turbines provide power for two new helicopter ground support units.
Aviation Electronics
Integrating Tachometer A new size 15 Integrating Motor Tachometer, type 105P2Y, recently introduced by the Ketay Department, Norden Division of United Aircraft Corporation, is now…
New Materials
Fothergill and Harvey Ltd., Littleborough, Lanes., have announced the production of a new range of Printed Circuit Grade electro‐deposited copper foil, coated with a dry…
British Patent Abridgments
These abstracts of British Patent Specifications are condensed, by permission, from the official specifications. Copies of the full specifications are obtainable from the Patent…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb