Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 10 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents
Stressed‐Skin Construction: A Summary of the Striking Progress Made in a Few Years
IN this issue, which is the first of our tenth volume, we publish two articles on various aspects of the problem of calculating the strength of stressed‐skin structures.
Openings in Stressed‐Skin Wings: The Effect of Cover Discontinuities on the Strength and Stiffness of Stressed‐Skin Wings
D. WilliamsIN R. & M. 1761 the behaviour of a tube of rectangular cross section under torsional loading was investigated with the object of using the results to estimate the corresponding…
The Sinking Speed of Aeroplanes: A Swedish Suggestion of an Alternative to Horsepower Required for Use in Performance Calculations
B. LundbergIN accurate performance calculations it is usual to calculate the two curves for the horse‐power required and available (against the path velocity), especially in the case where…
A Stressed‐Skin Problem: The Stress Distribution in the Region of Applied Loads or Constraints
W.J. GoodeyStressed‐skin construction is now almost universally used in modern aeroplane planes. A technique for the stressing of “tubes” of this type, which seemed to offer almost…
A New Form of Biplane: Further Experiments on a Complete Model Confirm the Earlier Results
H.B. IrvingIN AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING for June, 1935, and in R. & M. 1715, the present writer and others described some experiments on a wing cellule model of a new form of biplane, the special…
A German Long‐Range Aeroplane: The 960 Horse‐Power Four‐Engined Heinkel Mail‐Carrying Machine
GERMANY has recently shown signs of following the general trend towards the adoption of the lour engined arrangement on all but the smaller transport aeroplanes. The Heinkel…
Some Books Recently Received
A.N.B., F.C.S., A.F.These companion volumes are designed to cover a university engineering course in mechanics, but they will have a welcome extending outside university circles. The needs of the…
Air Ministry Official Notices
The following requirement will be included in due course in an amendment to Air Publication 1208.
Air Ministry Contracts
THE following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during November is extracted from the December 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
Mechanism for actuating the control surfaces of aircraft, including a flap mounted so that it is lowered bodily from its normal retracted position to a position below the wing…
Month in the Patent Office
A power plant for aircraft includes an engine‐cooling system, an oil‐cooling system, a super‐charging system, and means for preheating the air supply to the engine, some of which…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb