Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 41 Issue 6

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

Lunar landing rehearsal

TWENTY‐FIVE seconds late! Apollo 10 splashed down in the Pacific just three miles from the recovery carrier Princeton 25 seconds late after eight days of space travel and a…

The Development of the Skyvan Series Three: The Skyvan story brought up to date with full details of the latest powerplant

SKYVAN, designed and built by Short Bros. & Harland Ltd. at Belfast, is a unique little aircraft with big potential which is finding widespread acceptance in many parts of the…

The Aerodynamic Design: A description of the modifications introduced on the Series 3 aircraft

The performance criterion for engine power for aircraft of the Skyvan type is related to the single engine climb gradient in the en route configuration. The required engine power…

Aircraft Systems

Details of the flying controls, electric and electronic, ice protection, environmental and fuel systems. The design principles of the flying control system for the Series 2…

Interior Arrangements: Details of the flight deck and cabin layouts

During the redesign of the engine controls and instrumentation console in the cockpit other minor changes in the layout, repositioning presentation improvement etc., were…

The Automatic Flight Control System for Concorde: An account of the design philosophy and a description of the advanced AFCS developed for the first supersonic transport

THE automatic flight control system (AFCS) for the Concorde has been jointly developed by Elliott‐Automation Ltd. and SFENA (Société Francaise pour la Navigation Aérienne) for the…

The Effect of Mean Stresses on Fatigue Strength: A method of constructing R‐M diagrams for plain fatigue specimens

R.D.C. Passey

THIS note proposes a new type of empirical alternating/mean stress diagram for plain fatigue specimens, which combines the merits of the Modified Goodman Line and the Gerber…

A Guide for the Care of Mechanical Design Engineers: A paper first presented at the last Winter Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Edward A. Brass

THE fact that the mechanical design engineer requires special treatment is well known to most engineering managers. Within the typical engineering department, the mechanical…

Ear‐to‐ground

Britten‐Norman unveiled the new BN‐3 Nymph multi‐purpose four seater scarcely a week before the Paris Air Show opened. The aircraft is designed for the fast growing world market…

Personalities in the news

Mr J. Carnegie, B.Sc, F.I.E.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., has been appointed Director and Manager of Dowty Electrics Ltd., a subsidiary of Dowtv Rotol Ltd. Mr Carnegie was formerly Technical…

Auxiliary Equipment

Details of Some Components Used for Subsidiary Services in Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. G. A. Stanley Palmer Ltd., have been appointed sole agents and overseas…

New Materials

Brief Particulars of Recently Introduced Materials likely to have Aircraft, Missile or Space Vehicle Applications. When the first British‐assembled prototype 002 of the…

Tools for the Industry

A Selection of Equipment of Use in the Production and Maintenance of Aircraft, Missiles, Space Vehicles and Components. Rapid routing of complex shapes is achieved on a new low…

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