Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 45 Issue 2
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An International JournalTable of contents
Horizon
“We start 1973 financially strong with an order book of over £360m, nearly half of which is for export” is the timely message from Sir George Edwards to employees of the British…
Manufactured‐in‐house or subcontracted? finding the economic balance
D.A. LESSWARETHERE ARE technical, financial and other advantages to be gained by an aircraft manufacturer's management from making fewer detail components in house and from placing the…
Locating references for information
E.J. ALA MACADAMSAMUEL JOHNSON said that ‘Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can get information upon it’. Most engineers and technicians are familiar…
Resistant finishes
J.B.G. LEWINHIGH PERFORMANCE is demanded of aircraft finishes because of the severity of the environmental conditions to which they are exposed. Many aircraft today operate long range, and…
Interactive 3D shape design — Multipatch and Multiobject
A.P. ARMITMULTIPATCH AND MULTIOBJECT have been used for a variety of design tasks. As interactive systems they aim to relieve the user of repetitive calculations, picture drawing, etc. and…
Criteria for self loosening of fasteners under vibration
This is the final part of the article by Gerhard H. Junker of the European Research and Engineering Standard Pressed Steel Co, Unbrako. Previous parts have covered mechanism of…
Ram air turbines
P.W. MORRISFOR MANY YEARS ram air turbines have been used as a source of power on aircraft should an emergency arise or as a continuous source of power and because the turbine is air…
Airport Installation
A set of analytical expressions and a computerised simulation model has been designed by the National Bureau of Standards so that airport planners and designers can analyse the…
Safe expedition of air traffic
C.D. COLCHESTERI PROPOSE to devote most of the article to air traffic control — the equipment involved, and the controllers, and that ‘in’ subject, the man‐machine interface. But first I intend…
Equipment and materials
The RB scries of bridge rectifiers in the 4, 5, 15 and 25amp current range are housed in a high conductivity alloy case with a durable nickel finish, and are designed for easy…
Increasing efficiency
A furnace was required for the heat treatment of niomic alloys for the bellows sealed gimbal joints on the RB 211 engine for the Lockheed Tristar. These joints form a flexible…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb