Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 35 Issue 4

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An International Journal
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Obituary Lieutenant‐Colonel W. Lockwood Marsh

IT is with regret that we record the death of Lieut‐Col. William Lockwood Marsh, O.B.E., M.A., L.L.B.,F.R.Ae.S., F.l.Ae.S., M.S.A.E., on March 10, at the age of 76, at his home in…

Recent Developments in Aircraft Ice Protection SYSTEMS: A Review of the Problems Posed by the Formation of Ice, Its Detection and Prevention, and the Use of Cyclic Heaters and Solid State Devices

K.H. Greenly

Ice formation constitutes a hazard to aircraft operation both on the ground and in flight. This article deals with the protection of aircraft against ice formation in flight, but…

Assessing Helicopter Safety with Respect to Component Fatigue: A Procedure Based on Statistical Methods of Data Analysis Requiring a Catastrophic Failure Rate of less than I0–3 after 10,000 flying hours

A.D. Hall

A distinction is drawn between reliability, and aircraft safety, which may be termed a subdivision of reliability. Some principles arc laid down that will enable the aircraft…

Concord Power Plants: A Description of the Bristol Siddeley/S.N.E.C.M.A. Olympus 593 Installation in the British Aircraft Corporation/Sud Aviation Supersonic Airliner

THE B.A.C./Sud Concord supersonic airliner which was the subject of an official agreement signed by Mr Julian Amcry, the British Minister of Aviation, and His Excellency M…

Aviation Fuel Problems: A Review of the Major Problems from the Use of Aviation Fuels Arising at High Altitudes and High Aircraft Speeds and Some Practicable Solutions

E.M. Goodger

In the case of stationary fuel tanks subjected to high ambient temperatures for prolonged periods, vaporization may account for a significant loss of the more volatile fractions…

The Queen's University of Belfast: The Seventh and Last in a Series of Articles Describing the Facilities, Academic Curricula and Research Activities in the Aeronautical Engineering Departments of the British Universities

A.V. Stephens

ORIGINS THE Department of Aeronautical Engineer‐ing at The Queen's University was founded primarily to stimulate the flow of local talent into the aircraft industry of Northern…

Rotor Dynamics ROTORCRAFT and Helicopter Stability: Development of a Unified Mathematical Theory of the Steady and Disturbed Motion of a Helicopter with Particular Emphasis on the Dynamical Aspects of the Problem

H.L. Price

The ultimate object of the present work is the investigation of the dynamic stability of a helicopter. Fundamentally this is the problem of the small oscillations of a body about…

Trade Announcements

British Aircraft Corporation recently announced the new Board of English Electric Aviation Ltd. and the composition of the Board of Directors of the new company British Aircraft

The Library Shelf

The first of these two books provides information and illustrations concerning each American bomber aircraft within the military designations B.1 to B.70. Although there is little…

Aviation Electronics

Details of Electrical and Electronic Apparatus with Applications in the Maintenance and Operation of Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd

Research and Testing

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. A Rolls‐Royce Tync Mk.22 propjct lias completed a 150‐hour type test to military requirements at a take‐off rating of 6,100…

New Materials

Brief Particulars of Recently Introduced Materials likely to have Aircraft, Missile or Space Vehicle Applications. Molykote X‐15, an inorganic‐bonded, dry film lubricant with a…

Auxiliary Equipment

Details of Some Components Used for Subsidiary Services in Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles.Hymatic's Contribution to the British Space Suit A British space suit recently…

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…

British Patent Abridgments

In the jet propulsion plant installation in an aircraft wing each chordwise extending square tube 119 is attached to a splitter plate 114 by vertical dowel pins 115 and by bolts…

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