Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 42 Issue 1
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Into the supersonic transport era
THE next decade will sec without doubt the use of supersonic transports in commercial operation. Concorde will be the first SST aircraft in the Western world to enter service and…
The Potential and Development of a V/S.T.O.L. Inter‐city Airliner: The argument for the development of fan lift technology as the answer to the requirement for high speed short haul air transport
J D.H., E.D.G. KempIN a previous article (Ref. 1, 1966), Chichester‐Miles of H.S.A. discussed some of the advantages and opportunities offered by the use of V.T.O.L. aircraft in short haul air…
Structural Design of the Harrier
Five integral fuel tanks are carried in the fuselage. Port and starboard side tanks of 51½ gallons (234 litres) capacity each between the front engine nozzles and the engine air…
Power plant: The Pegasus Mk.101
THE Rolls‐Royce Bristol Pegasus Mk. 101 (Fig. 1) is a straight flow, twin spool, turbofan jet propulsion engine with a bypass ratio of 1·44 : 1 at V/S.T.O.L. rating. It is…
Powerplant: Installation
The engine bay is formed by the sides and undersurface of the fuselage and extends from the nosegear bay back to main gear bay. The engine bay is divided nto two zones (Fig. 4) by…
Powerplant: Fuel System
THE need to carry sufficient fuel in the smallest possible space and with the lowest possible weight dictated the use of integral fuel tanks in both the wing and the fuselage…
Powerplant: Water Injection System
THE maximum take‐off thrust available from the Pegasus engine is limited, particularly at the higher ambient temperatures, by the turbine blade temperature. As this temperature…
Ear‐to‐ground
For the first time Concorde has been flown by four airline pilots at subsonic and supersonic speeds. Four evaluation flights were made in the first prototype, Concorde 001, at…
Personalities in the news
The Minister of Technology, Mr Anthony Wedgwood Benn, has appointed Air Commodore A. S. R. Strudwick, D.F.C., as Director of Flying in the Ministry of Technology with effect from…
Research and Testing
Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. EMI Electronics closed circuit television equipment is being installed in Concorde prototypes 001 and 002 aircraft for a variety of…
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- Prof Phil Webb