Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 9 Issue 7
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An International JournalTable of contents
The Position in Regard to Flaps: An Auxiliary Control for Take‐off and Landing
IN dealing last month with developments since the inception of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING in March, 1929, one of the features we mentioned was flaps. It is, therefore, apropos that wc…
Testing Shock‐Absorbing Struts: Method Employed for Dynamic Tests of Axially‐Loaded Undercarriage Struts at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
W.D. Douglas, F.W.R. BirdOWING to the complexity of the calculations necessary to determine the motion of the parts of an undercarriage during landing it is usually advisable to subject the combination of…
Trailing‐edge Flaps: A General Review of the Purpose of Flaps and How, and How Far, They Achieve It
S.B. GatesTHE reader who asks for more wood and less trees in technical discussions of wing flaps has my sympathy, since I have myself been responsible for some denseness of undergrowth. In…
The Armstrong‐Whitworth Whitley Heavy Bomber
Picture and diagram of the Armstrong‐Whitworth Whitley Heavy Bomber
Notes on Hardness Tests: The Conversion of Tests obtained by one Method to Another Apt to be Misleading
E. SkerryHARDNESS tests on structural materials are usually taken to indicate quickly and cheaply the probable tensile strength; or used in conjunction with tensile tests, when tensiles…
The Langley Field Conference: An Account of the Principal Experiments Shown at the Annual Reception of the N.A.C.A.
Alexander KleminTHE National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics received this year so many requests for attendance at its Langley Field Conference that the visitors were divided into two groups…
Letters to the Editor: The Effect of Slipstream on Longitudinal Stability—More Information on Gust Loads
DEAR SIR,—I read with much interest Mr. J. H. Crowe's article on Longitudinal Stability, which was published in the March issue of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING. It forms a useful summary…
Air Ministry Official Notices
As several kinds ot compressed gas are now used for various purposes in connection with civil aviation, precautions should be taken to prevent one kind being mistaken for another.
Air Ministry Contracts
THE following list of contracts placed by the Department (luring April is extracted from the May issue 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…
U.S. Patent Specifications
Apparatus for protecting aircraft surfaces from ice accumulation, which comprises means forming a source of supply of ice‐preventing fluid, an absorbent covering material…
Month in the Patent Office
Variable‐pitch airscrews driven through multiple speed gear boxes are controlled by a single lever to provide in one position high speed and fine pitch and in another position a…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
1929Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb