Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 44 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents
Slippery slope of high technology
AIRLINES should group together internationally as much as aircraft constructors, to ensure the necessary turnover and credibility. This indirectly, is one of the messages put…
Flight simulator as a design tool
D.J. ACKLAM, ACGI BSc(Eng)TO MANY PEOPLE in the aeronautical world a flight simulator is a training device ranging in complexity from the old Link Trainer to the latest fully representative airline…
Dynamic manned vehicle simulator
THE VALUE OF SIMULATION is directly proportional to its realism and the Systems Division of British Aircraft Corporation has built up and operates at Weybridge a facility unique…
Time frequency system: Collision avoidance
THE airborne Eros II Collision Avoidance System (CAS) designed and produced by McDonnell Douglas Corporation is actuated when the computer calculates the aircraft is within 25 sec…
Rotocraft for alleviation of the aircraft noise nuisance
JOHN W. LEVERTON, MScEng, BTechSINCE in the context of this article it is the civil air transport application of rotorcraft which is of interest, only large passenger carrying rotorcraft are considered.
The theory of governing for aircraft turbo alternators
D.O. BURNSThe first part of this feature which appeared last month, covered dynamics of the throttle, the electro‐hydraulic governor, governor internal loop stability and alternative…
Airport Installations
The Cryostart engine starter is a self‐contained operational unit combining the techniques of cryogenics, thermal regeneration and heat storage to produce a dependable source of…
Modular automatic test equipment for commercial airlines
ROBERT GUSTAFSONTHE DC‐10 era is effecting subtle changes in the maintenance procedures. The basic objectives of maintaining safe equipment at a reasonable cost have not changed. The means of…
Light water extinguishing foam floats on fuel
AS AN AIRFIELD fire fighting crew made its way to demonstrate a 3M fire fighting agent at an American air base in Suffolk recently, a jet fighter crash‐landed and caught fire a…
Increasing efficiency
The Industrial Nucleonics Corporation's KET non‐destructive process for locating ‘invisible’ cracks in turbine blades depends on autoradiography to detect radioactive krypton 85…
Equipment and materials
MQ power supplies have an input voltage of 220/ 240V 48 to 440Hz. Output available is 10A, 0–16V and is adjustable from the preset value by about 10 per cent by means of a peb…
Personalities in the news
Changed assignments for four senior staff members have been announced by the International Air Transport Association. H. DON REYNOLDS, formerly assistant director general …
Ear‐to‐ground
Over 50 Rolls‐Royce RB 211 engines are scheduled for delivery by the middle of this year; first deliveries start in March. This has only become possible due to a dramatic increase…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb