Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 32 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Rotary‐Wing Development
IT was the Scottish firm of G. and J. Weir who produced the first British helicopter to fly, in 1938, following a number of years spent investigating the possibilities of…
The Effect of a Damping Compound on Jet‐Efflux Excited Vibrations: An Article in Two Parts Presenting Theory and Results of Experimental Investigation PART I THE STRUCTURAL DAMPING DUE TO THE COMPOUND
D.J. MeadThe theory is presented of the increase in damping that can be obtained when a damping compound is added to a simple structure vibrating in a bending mode. Consideration has been…
Recovery of Guided Weapons: Factors Influencing the Parachute Designer in the Choice of a Suitable System
S.B. JacksonOF the various countries involved in the development of guided missiles, the United Kingdom has a unique problem. It is that, apart from the preliminary use of the small artillery…
The Estimation of Tail Loading Due to Elevator‐Induced Pitching Manoeuvres: A Proposal for an Approximate Analytical Method for Airworthiness Calculations PART III — Appendices
P.F. RichardsThis Part presents Appendices I and II which deal, respectively, with the theoretical analysis of the checked manoeuvre and a new simplified method of determining flight loads to…
Heat Treatment: The Ipsen Automatic High Temperature Unit
CARBURIZING, carbon restoration, carbonitriding, neutral hardening, marquenching, normalizing, annealing and brazing can all be performed in Ipsen scaled quench units. The latest…
Tools for the Workshop
The P.5 Automatic Multi‐Tool and Profile Turning Lathe produced by Churchill‐Redman Ltd, Halifax, is now available with a fully automatic loading and unloading mechanism. The full…
The Library Shelf
This book is chiefly concerned with the thermodynamic and mechanical design of the various types of heat exchanger used in conjunction with the gas turbine with a view to…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Memoranda of the United States…
Auxiliary Equipment
Use of sidewall‐inflated tubeless aircraft tyres, that eliminate valve stems and provide greater design flexibility, is becoming widespread on both military and commercial…
Research and Test Apparatus
In order to simulate every conceivable hydraulic operating condition likely to be encountered on controllers or hydromatic propellers in flight, de Havilland Propellers Ltd. have…
Month in the Patent Office
A tube comprising layers of longitudinally and helically arranged vegetable, animal or mineral fibres, such as cotton, jute, wool, hair, asbestos, glass fibres, filaments of…
U.S. Patent Specifications
An aircraft control system comprising a wing, means mounting the wing for hinge movement so that the leading edge thereof is movable upwardly and downwardly, a link, means…
German Patent Abridgements
The upper and lower shells 5, 6 of this wing are separately cast in forms 11, 12. A steel tube spar 1 is inserted, the spar and the contact lines of the shells are covered with…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb