Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 29 Issue 6

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

The Bright Side

FOR several months past there has been a growing feeling of uneasiness among some people in the aircraft industry as to what the future holds for them. Repeated announcements have…

Productivity in the Wartime Aircraft Industry: Some Results of Investigations Held in the Ministries of Aircraft Production and Supply in 1945 and 1946

E.J. Broster

WHEN the Ministry of Aircraft Production drastically reduced the military aircraft programme in 1945, forecasts had to be made of the consequential reductions in labour…

Problems of Machining Future Airframes: A Paper Presented at the Second Annual Contour Machining Conference, Los Angeles, California, October 1956

J.H. Famme

THERE has been considerable discussion in the industry concerning the various barriers facing aircraft designers. We hear about such things as the sound barrier, the heat barrier…

The Library Shelf

This book contains the subject matter taught by the author at the École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris. It is thus…

Graphical Estimation of Flow through Orifices: Generalized Chart for Estimating Airflow Through Sharp Edged Orifices at Sub‐Critical Pressure Ratios

E.J. Gabbay

For compressible subsonic flow through a sharp‐edged orifice, where pressures are measured by static pipeline taps, the Saint‐Venant and Wanzel equation for nozzle discharge…

Helicopter Longitudinal Stability: Some Contributions to Existing Theory

P.R. Payne

CONSIDER a single rotor helicopter disturbed from the hovering condition as in FIG. 16. It has acquired a small forward velocity V ft./sec. and a nose‐up angular velocity of q…

Factorizing Polynomials: Factorizing Polynomials from Two Rounds of Lin's Reduced Penultimate Remainder Process with a Real Divisor

J.W. Head

IN a recent paper1 the author suggested that Lin's reduced penultimate remainder process could still be used to find the real or complex linear factors of polynomials of any…

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…

Tools for the Workshop

The use of interlocking milling cutters for wide slotting or channelling operations is recognized practice as the one pair of cutters can be used for machining to any desired…

Research and Test Apparatus

In connexion with equipment for de Havilland Propellers Limited the Dryer Division of Birlec Ltd., Tyburn Road, Erdington, Birmingham, 24, has supplied a special type of…

Month in the Patent Office

These abstracts of British Patent Specifications are condensed, by permission, from the official specifications. Copies of the full specifications are obtainable from the Patent…

U.S. Patent Specifications

These details and drawings of patents granted in the United States are taken, by permission of the Department of Commerce, from the ‘Official Gazette of the United States Patent…

German Patent Abridgements

Copies of the full Specifications are obtainable under the name ‘Deutsche Auslegeschrift’ from the Deutsches Patentamt, 1 Museumsinsel, Munich, Germany, price 1,30 DM.

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb