Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 40 Issue 6

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

Thoughts on the future of European aeronautics

WHEN Mr Handel Davies, the Deputy Controller of Aircraft (Research and Development), Ministry of Technology, gave the twenty‐first Louis Bleriot Lecture in Paris on April 5 under…

Some Joint Anglo‐European Aircraft Projects: Speech on international collaboration given to the Society of Automotive Engineers in New York on May 1st

George Edwards

In a lecture I gave the other day to one of the new British technological universities I told the students that their future would be bound up with ernational collaborative…

Aerodynamic Design Features of the C‐5A: An account of some of the problems encountered and the solutions adopted in the design of the Galaxy

J.H. Paterson

The C‐5A is designed to provide the capability to transport heavy logistics payloads and outsize military equipment over long ranges for the lowest possible system and operating…

Stainless Steel Tube for Sonobuoy Discharge System: A brief description of the sonobuoy delivery system for the Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft

WHEN the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR Mk. 1 — the world's first land‐based turbofan maritime reconnaissance aircraft — enters service during the latter part of 1969, its primary role…

The Lockheed‐Georgia C‐5A Galaxy: The demanding specification of the Galaxy resulted in many advances and refinements being made in the state of the art for subsonic aircraft

THE C‐5 aircraft design has incorporated many state of the art advances relative to the C‐141 or any other large subsonic aircraft. These were necessitated by the very broad range…

The Stability and Control of Slender Delta Aircraft: An evaluation of the different behaviour characteristics of a large supersonic transport aircraft of slender delta form when compared with a conventional aircraft

The common property of being able to travel faster than sound does not in general confer on aircraft any other similarities of shape or form. Thus supersonic aircraft have no…

Ear‐to‐ground

The R.‐R. Small Engine Division is developing a new 900 s.h.p. turboshaft engine, the Rolls‐Royce 360, to power the Westland WG.13 utility helicopter. It is a light, compact…

Aviation Electronics

Details of Electrical and Electronic Apparatus with Applications in the Maintenance and Operation of Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. Pilkington Perkin‐Elmer, St. Asaph, a…

Research and Testing

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. A Westland Widgeon helicopter, used normally by Ferranti Ltd., for communications flying, has been fitted with the company's FAS 2…

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.

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb