Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 4 Issue 11
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An International JournalTable of contents
Machine Shop Equipment: Suitable types for an Engine Factory
E. FairbrotherIN arranging a machine shop for the manufacture of acro‐engines, great care has to be taken in the arrangement to ensure that the layout is open without wasting space, at the same…
Practical Hints on Airscrews
Duralumin airscrews are giving splendid service on aircraft operating in all parts of the world, and particularly in U.S.A. and Canada, but in some cases operators are not…
The Electric Furnace: An Increasingly Reliable and Useful Unit
PROGRESS in the design and building of aero‐engines has been materially assisted by a steady improvement in the materials available.
Aids to Engine Production: A Series of Churchill Machines Described
The importance of precision grinding machinery in the development of the modern aero‐engine is obvious.
Recent Technical Developments
The firm of Messrs. James Walker & Co. Ltd., Lion Works, Woking, Surrey, has been associated with the manufacture of packings and jointing, for nearly fifty years, and therefore…
Announcing a New Feature: The Inauguration of our Workshop and Production Section
WE have been failing, we are told, to cater sufficiently in these pages for the practical man.
The German Aero Show: A Review of the Aircraft at the D.E.L.A. Exhibition with Notes on Trends in Design
W.R. SchulzTHE Deutsche Luftsport Ausstellung (German Light Aeroplane Show) which was held in Berlin from October 1 to October 23, was devoted entirely to private and club flying, so that…
A New De Havilland Engine: The 130 Horse‐Power Inverted Gipsy Major Described and Illustrated
THE new De Havilland Gipsy Major 130 h.p. aero‐engine designed by Major V. B. Halford is of the inverted air‐cooled four‐cylinder in‐line type.
Ply‐Covered Cantilever Planes: A Detailed Description of the Method of Laying Out and Building Wooden Wings
THE ply‐covered cantilever monoplane wing as we know it in England to‐day is a development of the Fokker construction used abroad for many years. In this one unit—the wing—wood…
Float Construction and Repair: The Process of Building a Seaplane Float Described, with Hints on Replacing Damaged Parts
THE riveting of all the bottom plates being finished, it will be found advisable to fit the external chine angle before the float is turned over. The drilling can be left until…
Aerodynamic Theory of To‐day: A Comprehensive Italian Work for Advanced Students and a More Elementary American Book
THE science of aerodynamics has made rapid progress during the last ten or twenty years, and the rate of advance shows little sign of abating. Text books, however, are as yet few…
The World's Fastest Landplane: Major J. Doolittle's 800 h.p. Pratt and Whitney Wasp‐Engined Granville Monoplane Described
AFTER having remained unbeaten, and almost unchallenged, since December 11, 1924—when Adjudant Bonnet in a Ferbois monoplane with a 550 h.p. Hispano‐Suiza engine achieved a speed…
Biplane and Monoplane Compared: Full Details of the Two Blackburn Civil Aeroplanes Built to the Same Specification
THE biplane wings are braced in two bays, the top and bottom planes being of equal span and chord. The inner bays consist of a wide centre‐section system, the engine mountings…
The Economics of Weight‐Saving: The Price that Would Have to be Paid for Lightening Various Components in an Aeroplane
Edward P. WarnerHOW much is lightness worth? The question is one upon which many engineers have formed their own opinions. Their conclusions range in written expression from the epigrammatic…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and Technical Notes of the U.S. National Advisory…
Month in the Patent Office: A Selection of the More Important Aircraft and Engine Specifications Published Recently
The entrance 6 of a passage leading cooling air to the cylinders of an aircraft engine comprises an adjustable flap valve 10, which opens outwardly and is inwardly streamlined…
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