Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 6 Issue 2
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An Aero‐Engine Issue: A Wide Range of Requirements for Aeroplanes Covered
ACTUALLY more by accident than design, this issue is predominantly one of our aero‐engine. We had arranged to publish another of the series of articles dealing with machining…
Current French Practice: Some Examples of Recent Productions in the Long Range Multi‐Engined Transport Class
R.J. de MarollesSEVERAL new types of commercial aeroplane have appeared in France recently, to meet modern requirements on the various air lines. All these machines are multi‐engined monoplanes…
The New British Load Factors: An Explanation of the Changes recently Introduced into the Official Requirements
H.B. HowardTHE Air Ministry has lately introduced extensive revisions into the official requirements for the strength of civil aeroplanes and the object of this article is to consider…
Machining Bristol Engine Parts: A Description of Some Operations on the Mercury and Pegasus Types
THE Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., have been actively engaged in the manufacture of air‐cooled engines for some fourteen years and have concentrated their efforts on the production…
The Development of the “H” Engine: The Latest Series of the Interesting Napier Rapier Described and Illustrated
IT will be remembered that the salient features of the Napier Rapier engine were described in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. II, July, 1930, p. 166, while some brief particulars of…
A New Six‐Cylinder Engine: The 180 Horse‐Power Gipsy Six with Parts Interchangeable with other D.H. Engines
THE range of Gipsy aero engines has been augmented by a new and interesting addition in the form of a six‐cylinder air‐cooled inverted engine which has recently passed the Air…
Aeroplane Brake Development: An Examination of the Possibilities of Tandem Wheel Undercarriages Fitted with Brakes
R. Waring BrownAEROPLANES are now being built of from 25,000 to 60,000 lb. gross weight, and to comply with these loads it has been necessary to construct wheels and tyres capable of sustaining…
Two French Engines: Descriptions of Delage and Farman Engines of Approximately the same Capacity
IT will be remembered that in his description of the entrants for this year's Deutsch de la Meurthe Cup race (see Aircraft Engineering, Vol. V, July 1933, pp. 145–148) M. de…
An Ingenious Engine Test Bed: A Rig Suitable for Testing Standard Types of Air‐Cooled In‐Line Engines
NORTH Sea Aerial & General Transport, Ltd., a subsidiary of the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Co., Ltd., which operates a Royal Air Force Reserve Flying School at Brough, E. Yorks…
Welding Stainless Steel: A New British Automatically Controlled Spot‐Welding Machine
OF interest to aircraft constructors in general and to aeronautical engineers in particular is the new automatic process for high‐speed welding of stainless steel components…
Air Ministry Official Notices: Instructions to Aeroplane Owners and Ground Engineers on Essential Modifications
Airscrews to the following designs have been approved for use on D.H. 84, Dragon, aero‐planes:—
Research Reports and Memoranda
Starting from the integral equation for the inclination of the compression‐bending axis, simple approximate formulæ are derived for the deflection of bars with variable rigidity…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb