Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 43 Issue 7

Aircraft businsess forecast

The most valuable asset from studying the past lies in possible guidance for the future. So the most interesting section of the review of the economic situation of air transport…

Formation flight technology

T.K. SPEER, E.C. MILLS, J.L. TATE

IN THIS article the evolution of formation flight technology is traced including discussion of the primary characteristics of three specific station keeping system concepts…

Three new maintenance faces of BEA: AN IMPROVED COMPUTER ADVANCED LABOUR AGREEMENT HANGAR FOR 1000 SEATER AIRCRAFT

E. GREGORY, CEng, MISLAET AFRAeS

A real‐time system for recording and monitoring the defect state of aircraft as an aid to the efficient planning of servicing work is one of the projects BEA is studying now the…

Prediction of wing group weight for preliminary design

E. TORENBEEK

A semi‐empirical relationship is derived for the structural weight of wings, applicable to a wide range of subsonic aircraft. The method is based on a generalized expression for…

Major and minor features of interest at the Paris Air Show

Raytheon Co were showing their advanced‐design display console known as the plan view display, forming part of the computer display channel equipment as produced for air traffic…

Ear‐to‐ground

The biggest gathering of air racing pilots ever staged in Britain is the promise made for the two day flying display and air race meeting at Halfpenny Green, Bobbington on 29th…

Personalities in the news

Many of the honours bestowed on the aircraft industry in the Queen's birthday list were for services to export. Hawker Siddeley Group deputy chairman and managing director JOHN…

New equipment and materials

The type 9271A measuring platform is based on a two component annular cell mounted highly pre‐stressed between the base and the cover plate. It measures axial compression forces…