Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 43 Issue 11
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VTOL: ‘a matter of urgency’
THIRTY‐ONE YEARS ago Britain had emerged from the most perilous phase of her history since the Norman invasion of 1066. She emerged with the knowledge that, to put it in Sir…
V/STOL: World wide view: British Aircraft Corporation
British Aircraft Corporation is developing a new generation quiet (Q) jet airliner with an impressive short take‐off and landing (STOL) capability to overcome the growing…
A synopsis on Q/STOL engines
ESSENTIALLY, A QSTOL AIRCRAFT must be capable of landing and taking off from a runway not more than 2000ft in length, and at maximum take‐off weight should have a noise level not…
Externally blown flaps, aerodynamic feasibility study of a STOL‐transporter
P. KUEHL Dipl‐lng, D. WELTE Dipl‐lngTYPICAL STOL CHARACTERISTICS can be achieved for medium and heavy jet transport aircraft by means of externally blown flaps. As part of a project study conducted by Dornier AG.…
V/STOL R & D in France
SINCE 1955 BERTIN & CIE has been engaged in research and development of solutions in relation to problems of short or vertical take off. Alone or with the collaboration of other…
The load on the brake parachute of a jet aeroplane under the influence of the engine wake
RUNE SANDSTROMBRAKE parachutes are used on aeroplanes, as a complement to the wheel brakes, in order to reduce the landing run, for instance when landing on slippery runways. Normally, the…
Increasing efficiency
It was found that the fluorocarbon resins in the hundred or so bearing bushes which support the variable geometry inlet guide vanes in the high pressure compressor of the Rolls…
Equipment and materials
A ‘noise stethoscope’ has a tropicalised moving coil, dynamic microphone and fully transistorised amplifier. It has a range from 40 to 125 decibels divided into four sub‐ranges…
Ear‐to‐ground
The Society of British Aerospace Companies is to invite members of the Western European aerospace industry to participate in the Farnborough air show next September. This will…
Books and literature
Papers read at the symposium on damage tolerance in aircraft structures, in Toronto in 1970 are here collected between hard covers. Altogether they review the state of aircraft…
Personalities in the news
BRIAN TRUBSHAW and ANDRE TURCAT, chief British and French test pilots on the British Aircraft Corporation/Aerospatiale Concorde supersonic airliner programme, have received the…
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