Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 58 Issue 10

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

Prediction of Fuel Freezing in Airplane Fuel Tanks of Arbitrary Geometry — Part 2

P.M. McConnell, S.F. Owens, R.A. Kamin

Cooldown of fuel inside a horizontal cylinder (i.d. approximately equal to that of a pylon tank) was modelled with a mixture of 50% glycerine and 50% water (Ti = 65°C). Safety…

Experience of One UK Electronic Equipment Supplier With Bite on Engine/Flight Control Systems Over the Past Ten Years — Part 2

Raymond de Gaye

The ECU safety system is such that all internal and external fault monitoring circuit outputs are consolidated and passed through a short time‐constant filter to eliminate…

Farnborough 1986

Major technical advances were featured at the Show, particularly those developments that will be coming into service in the very near future. An outstanding demonstration was…

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High‐Pressure Forming — a New Production Technology in Aircraft Construction

One of MBB's aims in making Airbus production more competitive is to reduce manufacturing costs by exploiting the technical and technological possibilities of existing production…

Equipment, Materials and Services

A totally new type of heat‐shrinkable tubing which combines flexibility with high tensile strength is now available as a standard product in five different diameters from Raychem…

News and Views

Lockheed‐Georgia Company has conducted C‐130H simulator flight training for the first U.S. Air Reserve Forces flight crews in its new Hercules Flight Training Centre at Marietta…

Contracts

Two British Caledonian aircraft are helping to provide a detailed minute‐by‐minute picture of the world's weather.

People

British Island Airways has appointed Ralph Erskine to the board of directors.

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb