Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 13 Issue 12
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INCREASING THE WAR EFFORT
EVER since MR. BEVIN'S unfortunate broadcast address one Sunday nine or ten months ago the position in regard to the “calling up” and employment of women has been chaotic in the…
Dynamic Balancing of Airscrews: The Methods of Dynamic and Aerodynamic Balancing in use by the Hamilton Standard Engineers
Murray C. BeebeThe necessity for refinement of airscrew balance in order to eliminate destructive vibration from this source is due largely to the continuously improving standards of passenger…
Blade Stall During Take‐off: The Importance of Airscrew Reduction Gearing and the Effect of Solidity Ratio
E. John AndrewsTO facilitate airscrew performance calculations an entirely new series of charts have been developed embodying wider use than hitherto of the term solidity ratio. These charts are…
New R.A.F. Types
THE original version of this unconventional aeroplane (the XP‐39) was first flown as long ago as the middle of 1938. The combination of the rearward engine with shaft drive and a…
The Me 109 Radio Installation: An American Report on Captured German Equipment Comparing it with a Typical U.S. Set
W.P. LearThe equipment described in the following article was installed in a German Messerschmidt 109 shot down over the Thames estuary. The aeroplane was shipped to the United States…
Airocobra Production at Buffalo: Some of the Special Machines and Methods Developed
Harry Wilkin PerryENGINEERING of the Airocobra fighter proceeded from the conviction of the Bell Aircraft Co., of Buffalo, N.Y., at the time of its organization in 1935, that a superior interceptor…
A German Report on Allied Aircraft Fittings
H. CorneliusTHE following report on some random material tests made by the D.V.L. on armour‐plates and some fragments of steel components of captured (non‐German) aircraft will not include…
Designing for Machinability
James E. ThompsonGrinding consists of generating an extremely accurate surface by applying a rapidly revolving abrasive wheel to the surface to be finished. Although it is generally thought of as…
The Air‐Acetylene Torch
THE air‐acetylene torch is often overlooked, and it is often forgotten as an economical tool where less heat than that given by the oxy‐acctylene blowpipe is necessary.
U.S. Patent Specifications
The combination of a substantially semi‐cylindrical turbine casing half, a substantially semicylindrical diaphragm half disposed in the casing half, and a supporting and centering…
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- Prof Phil Webb