Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 36 Issue 10

Farnborough notes

PRAISE from the master is praise indeed and it was therefore most flattering of MrNajecb Halaby, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency, to describe the Flying Display at…

Progress with the Development of the B.A.C. One‐Eleven: A Description of the Progress made with the Structural Test Programme, Systems Programme, Flight Test Programme and Maintenance and Support Programme

J. Prothero Thomas

THE development of an airliner is an extremely complex operation calling for many different professional skills and a vast amount of testing and development facilities.

Rotating Cylinder Flaps for V/S.T.O.L Aircraft: Some Aspects of an Investigation into the Rotating Cylinder Flap High Lift System for V/S.T.O.L. Aircraft Conducted jointly by the Peruvian Air Force and The National University of Engineering of Peru

Alberto Alvarez Calderon

A SPANWISE rotating cylinder placed at a suitable location in an aerofoil with the cylinder's upper surface moving rearwards in the direction of the local air flow can serve to…

The 24 th S‐B‐A‐C SHOW: A Report on a Selection of the Exhibits Displayed at this year's Society of British Aerospace Companies‘ Flying Display and Exhibition at Farnborough

TO say that the Twenty‐fourth S.B.A.C. Show was an unqualified success is perhaps to gild the lily. True there were disappointments— the delay which kept the TSR‐2 on the ground…

Teaching Aircraft Design: A Description of the Method by which Aircraft Design is Taught in the Postgraduate Course at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield

A.F. Newell, D. Howe

Aircraft Design has been taught at the College of Aeronautics since 1946. The course is at postgraduate level and is of two years' duration. In the first year the students are…

Ear‐to‐ground

This follows the issue earlier this year of a British Certificate of Airworthiness, giving the HS.125 full approval in the transport category. The FAA Certification is…

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…