Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 37 Issue 1
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Short turbo‐skyvan
IT was the decline of the seaplane market which led Short Brothers and Harland Ltd. into the air freighting business. Early work was based on the PD.15—a twin‐boom project having…
The Skyvan Concept and Design Philosophy: A Description of the Background to the Light Freighter, its Preliminary Design, Development and Leading Particulars
SHORTS' interest in the air freighter market dates back to 1954. The seaplane market, which previously the Company had dominated, had dwindled to negligible proportions and…
Aerodynamic Design: A Description of the Design Philosophy as it Applies to Wing, Flap, Engine Nacelles, Rear Fuselage, Tail Unit, Flying Controls and Performance
SINCE its original conception, the project has grown from an aircraft of 8,600 lb. all‐up‐weight with two 340 h.p. piston engines, to the present turbine‐powered Skyvan of 12,500…
Structural Design
An Account of the Design Philosophy Pursued for the Principal Load‐Carrying Structures and the Materials Employed. THE attention commonly devoted to the structural problems of…
Power Plant: A Description of the Turboméca Astazou X Turboprop and its Ratier Figeac FH76‐2 Propeller, with an Account of their Mode of Operation in Flight and on the Ground
J.A. BarrettTWENTY‐FIVE years ago, the gas turbine was successfully applied to aircraft propulsion for the first time and it was not long after this event that powerful engines of reasonable…
Aircraft Systems: Details of the Flying Control, Electrical and Electronic, Hydraulic, Ice Protection, Heating and Ventilation, and Fuel Systems and their Mode of Operation
THE Skyvan is designed for single pilot operation and control about all three axes is provided by conventional manually‐operated controls. The mass‐balanced control surfaces are…
Interior Arrangements: Describing the Flight Compartment and Cabin, Including Positioning of Instrumentation and the Hold Dimensions with Layouts of Typical Loads
THE standard model Turbo‐Skyvan is furnished and equipped as a freight‐carrying aircraft which can be adapted as a utility passenger transport with up to eighteen scats: it is…
Reliability, Quality Control and Maintenance: Background to the Reliability and Quality Control Philosophy Pursued during Design and Production of the Turbo‐Skyvan and Some Aspects of Maintenance and Servicing
AN encouraging degree of reliability has been achieved with the prototype Skyvan which to date has flown in excess of 200 hours in development and demonstration. The initial 30…
Production and Assembly: A Description of the Problems encountered in Producing the Skyvan and the Sequence of Assembly and Erection
PLANNING and tooling for the smaller type of aircraft presents certain problems not encountered elsewhere. The main difficulty is that the confined space in which operators have…
Flight Trials and Testing: A Description of the Flight Test Programme and Development Including Structural and Systems Testing
THE flight trials programme of the Skyvan is based on achieving a Group C (temperate category) Certificate of Airworthiness, within a period of six months after the production…
Auxiliary and Ancillary Equipment
Brief Details of Materials, Components and Equipment Produced by a Number of Companies in Support of the Belfast Programme Including Details of the Arrangements for Power Plant…
Ear‐to‐ground
Speaking at the recent Annual General Meeting of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and Technologists, Dr J. F. Dempsey, B.Comm., LL.D., A.C.A., Director and General…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb