Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 6 Issue 1
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Shop Practice in the Factory: Two Articles of Interest to Works Managers
A CONSIDERABLE proportion of this issue is devoted to two articles of an essentially practical nature which, though appealing perhaps primarily to works managers and others in…
Servo Shoe Brake Calculations: An Analytical Basis for the Study of the Problem of Brakes with any Number of Shoes
H. Roxbee Cox, A. Rowlett JonesIT appears from published work on brakes that no general theoretical basis has been presented on which the problem of the servo shoe brake can be studied, though empirical…
The Corrosion of Magnesium Alloys: An Important Series of Tests on Atmospheric and Sea‐Water Corrosion and Methods of Protection
Guy D. Bengough, L. WhitbyTHE chemist regards magnesium as a highly reactive metal for such reasons as the inflammability of its powder or foil in air, its active displacement of hydrogen gas from many…
Furnaces for Heat Treatment: A Review of the Requirements in Furnaces of All Types for Aircraft Factories
W.A. ThainIN modern aircraft a large percentage of the parts and details which make up the complete structure require heat treatment at some stage of fabrication. The heat‐treatment…
Shop Practice in Welding: Some Practical Notes on the Use of Oxy‐Acetylene Plant for Aeroplane Construction
W. GibsonTHESE notes will be confined exclusively to oxy‐acetylene welding, as in this country at all events, the use of electric welding of any kind in aircraft construction is still more…
Books Recently Received: Performance Testing of Aeroplanes—Seaplane Design—Welding Terms
Up to the present there has been one serious omission in the aeronautical library, in that there has been no publication dealing with one of the most important branches of…
The Direct‐Control Autogiro: A British Patent Specification Indicating the Lines of Development of the Latest Type
AIRCRAFT of the type known under the Registered Trade Mark “Autogiio,” have means for controllably tilting the rotor axis in relation to the body in one or more substantially…
Air Ministry Contracts: Lists of Orders Placed During the Months of September and October 1933
The following lists of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during September and October are extracted from the October and November issues of The Ministry of Labour Gazette.
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and Technical Notes of the U.S. National Advisory…
Month in the Patent Office: A Selection of the More Important Aircraft and Engine Specifications Published Recently
A device for preventing fire due to back fires from internal combustion engines comprises a chamber 1 which is fitted to the air inlet of the carburettor. The chamber is fitted…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb