Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 44 Issue 10

PRD 49 high modulus organic fibre as aluminium replacement

THE LARGEST GROWTH opportunity for new composite materials is in replacement of aluminium components in fuselage, wing and control surfaces. Glass fibres appear to be too low in…

Use of cycloconverters and variable speed alternators as engine starters

D.O. BURNS

IN VARIABLE SPEED constant frequency (VSCF) generating systems for aircraft, the variable frequency generator, usually six phase, is directly coupled to a main propulsion engine…

Criteria for self loosening of fasteners under vibration

GERHARD H. JUNKER

A UNIQUE TEST method and apparatus now make it possible to reproduce conditions of vibration that are not only certain to loosen bolted joints but which also closely simulate…

Powder coating technology

ANTHONY J. KOURY, ALFEO A. CONTE JR, MARTIN J. DEVINE

POWDER coating technology has provided a means of applying resin coatings to substrates via processing techniques which have two distinct advantages over conventional coating…

Increasing efficiency

In developing a laboratory with the object of providing instruction to undergraduate aeronautical engineers, the authorities of Queens University, Belfast, conducted a market…

Pan Am enlarges the Kennedy Airport terminal

THE $100m Pan American World Airways passenger terminal recently opened at John F. Kennedy International Airport encompasses 756,680sq ft. This has, in effect, been added to the…

Introduced at Farnborough

The stand of the Procurement Executive, Ministry of Defence, showed experiments being conducted by the Royal Radar Establishment to provide air traffic controllers with more…

Some unexpected exhibits: A retrospect view of Farnborough — Europe 72

Several companies at Farnborough were exhibiting products previously unpublicised and indeed introduced only after Aircraft Engineering had gone to press.