Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 9 Issue 9
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An International JournalTable of contents
The Instability of Fundamentals: The Difficulty of Distinguishing Trifles from Essentials
IT might be supposed that as knowledge on aerodynamics increases, and the subject approximates to being an exact science, the differing views on the essential features of…
Horsepower at Altitude: A Concise Method of Converting Test Bench Observations to Corrected Powers and Boosts
G.O. Anderson, M. ThomasTHERE have been many articles published from time to time referring to the Official Air Ministry data for the conversion of observed test bench powers and boost of supercharged…
An Italian Flying Boat: The Latest Three‐Engined Commercial Seaplane Designed by M. Zappata
THE C.A.N.T. Z‐506, constructed by the Cantieri Riuniti Dell'Adriatico of Monfalcone, is the newest commercial type to be placed in service on the over‐water routes of the…
Some Books Recently Received
It is most gratifying to be able to announce the appearance of yet another edition of this book, called for by the continued demand, which has now extended over seven years. Each…
Section Constants: A Method of Approximating the Radius of Gyration of Thin‐Walled Sections
H. ParkinsonWHEN designing sheet metal sections to meet particular requirements it is very useful to have reference to the I's and k's of geometrically similar sections, particularly when…
Production of Connecting Rods: A Series of Machines Designed to Finish the Components without Hand Operation
A NUMBER of grinding machines have been produced by Messrs. Billeter & Kluntz, Aschersleben, to eliminate the hand‐finishing operations usually required on parts made by machine…
Air Ministry Contracts
THE following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during the month of June is extracted from the July issue of The Ministry of Labour Gazette:—
Air Ministry Official Notices
It is proposed in the near future to add the following sub‐paragraph to paragraph 64 of the Air Navigation Directions, 1936 (A.N.D.13):—
The Latest Tiger Engine: The Armstrong‐ Siddeley Tiger VIII Two‐Row Radial with Two‐Speed Supercharger
THE Tiger VIII is an air‐cooled, two‐row, radial engine with fourteen cylinders. A two‐speed supercharger is enclosed in the induction case, and the engine is designed for use…
Research Reports and Memoranda
The study ot the dynamic stability of aero‐planes by the method of motions of small amplitude requires the determination of oscillatory or aperiodical motions. With the numerous…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A retractable landing gear for an aeroplane which comprises, in combination, at least two struts pivotally connected together and each pivotally connected to said aeroplane, a…
Month in the Patent Office
In an aircraft having a cowled air‐cooled engine arranged behind the airscrew with its crankshaft longitudinally of the aircraft and a passage in the. interior of a wing which…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
1929Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb