Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 34 Issue 12
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The Jet Lift Controversy
FEW advances in aircraft design have aroused such intense controversy as that which at present surrounds the philosophy of jet lift vertical take‐off and landing techniques. On…
The Hawker P. 1127/Bristol Siddeley Pegasus Combination: An Account of the Design Background to the P.1127 V/S.T.O.L Strike Fighter and its BS.53 Vectored Thrust Power Plant Introducing a Description of the Aircraft's Operational Characteristics
T.P. FrostTHE increased mobility of modern warfare, combined with the rapid advance in the destructive power of the weapons available, requires that military aircraft should become…
Composite Power Plant System for V/S.T.O.L. Aircraft: Background to the Development of Lightweight Lift Engines Including a Description of the Rolls‐Royce RB.162 and the Advantages of the Composite System for V/S.T.O.L. Strike Fighters
THE ability of an aircraft to take‐off and land vertically can be achieved by a number of design techniques. Those currently favoured vary from the use of a large rotor (as in the…
Optimum Power Plant Configuration for a Supersonic V/S.T.O.L Strike Aircraft: A Review of the Characteristics Required of Engines for Future ‘Vectored Thrust’ Low‐Level Strike Aircraft and a Comparative Evaluation of the Design Features and Performance of the Lift/Thrust and Composite Engine Solutions
R.M. DenningExamples of jet‐lift aircraft powered by the diverse systems of the single lift/thrust turbofan and the multi‐engined specialized lifting and propulsion engines are now flying…
Transient Vibrations of Missiles and Space Vehicles: Determination of the Transient Forced Flexural Vibrations of Accelerating Vehicles Using Equations of Motion of Matric Form Which May Be Readily Adapted to Electronic Digital Computers
W.A. Benfield, H.L. Cox, S.P. ChanA method of analysis for determining the transient forced flexural vibrations of accelerating missiles and space vehicles is presented. The equations of motion are in matric form…
British Standards and the Aircraft Industry: The Background to British Standard Specifications and Their Practical Application Throughout the Industry
THERE are few places where standards play such an essential role as in the aircraft industry, for an aircraft such as the Vickers VC10 long‐range airliner is made up of many…
High‐Altitude Pressure Suit: Description of the Windak Full Pressure Suit Developed by Baxter, Woodhouse and Taylor Ltd. to Fulfil R.A.F. Requirements
AS the performance of operational fighter and bomber aircraft steadily rises, so too does the pilot's reliance on the artificial atmosphere provided by oxygen and pressurization…
All Weather Landing: A Report on the I.F.A.L.P.A. Symposium Held in Amsterdam, October 17–19, Which Took as its Theme ‘The Last Hundred Feet’
MORE than 200 delegates and observers from sixteen countries attended the International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations (I.F.A.L.P.A.) Symposium on all weather landing…
Trade Announcements
Mr Eoin C. Mekie, C.B.E., has been appointed to the Board of the Decca Navigator Co. Ltd.
Auxiliary Equipment
Avery‐Hardoll automatic bottom loading equipment has been in widespread use for loading road tankers and aircraft refuellers during recent years. Now a new Avery‐Hardoll system…
Research and Test Apparatus
A two‐axis rocking table, specially designed by Short Brothers & Harland Ltd., Belfast, for use in testing their Belfast freighter's Autoland system, has proved so successful that…
Aviation Electronics
A new computer series in the Argus range has been announced by Ferranti Ltd. The computer, to be known as the Argus 100 series, has been designed principally for control and…
Tools for the Workshop
A new range of Par‐a‐matic self‐feed, air‐powered tools, which can be mounted at any angle for automatic or semi‐automatic operations, has been produced by Broom and Wade Ltd…
New Materials
Flame plating is a unique process for applying a thin, but intensely hard, skin of tungsten carbide or other powder to practically any metal or alloy. It is particularly suitable…
British Patent Abridgments
A fixed wing aircraft which can take‐off and land vertically, or at a speed below stalling speed, lift being obtained by substantially downwardly directed jets, has longitudinally…
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- Prof Phil Webb