Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 39 Issue 9

The Aerodynamic Design Philosophy of the Handley Page Jetstream: A detailed account of the aerodynamic considerations involved in the evolution of a new executive or feederliner aircraft

G.H. Lee

THE relation between aerodynamics and the design of an aircraft and its power plant is unique in engineering; it is only in aircraft design that good aerodynamics is a…

Structural Design: A description of the design philosophy followed for the principal load carrying structures, the materials employed and details of the structural test programme

K.R. Obee

ALTHOUGH the first certification or the Jetstream is to be to B.C.A.R. Section K and F.A.R. Part 23, it has always been intended that full airline standards will be maintained and…

The Turbomeca Astazou XIV Powerplant: A description of the Astazou turboprop engine used in the Jetstream and its operation

G.H. Lee

THE Sociéte Turbomeca Astazou, shown in the cutaway drawing, fig. 2, is a fixed shaft engine, running at the constant speed of 43,000 r.p.m. It has a three‐stage compressor, two…

Aircraft Systems and Equipment: A brief description of the major systems and auxiliary equipment

A.E.V. Page

THE special requirements of the market for the Jetstream led to a new approach in the matter of systems and ancillary equipment. The criterion in this field was to find the best…

Boundary Layer Control on Helicopter Rotor Blades: A shortened version of a paper investigating the possibilities of reducing the profile drag of rotor blades by employing suction at the trailing edge

Albert N. Debono, Maurice G. Pollard

THE possibility of applying boundary layer control by suction at the trailing edge to reduce the profile drag of a helicopter rotor blade using centrifugal forces to provide the…

Ear — to — ground

AIRBUS TO GO AHEAD. A meeting was held at the end of July between M Jean Chamant, the French Minister of Transport, Dr Johann Schollhorn, the State Secretary at the Federal German…

Personalities in the news

The Board of Trade have re‐appointed Sir Roy Allen, C.B.E., M.A., D.Sc.(Econ.) as a member of the Air Transport Licensing Board to serve for a further term from October 1, 1967 to…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council and Publications of other similar Research Bodies as issued.