Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 15 Issue 1

Cinderella in fetters

WE have recently received the September issue of “The Bee‐Hive”, the house organ of United Aircraft Corporation, and we feel that no better introduction to a consideration of the…

Two‐Spar Wing Stress Analysis: The Mathematical Theory, with Numerical Examples

W.J. Goodey

IN an article in the June, 1941, number of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, the writer gave an approximate investigation into the stress analysis of a two‐spar skin‐covered wing, the basis…

The Junkers Ju 211 Aero‐Engine

Sidney Oldberg, Thomas M. Ballt

THE Junkers 211B engine is one of the three large liquid‐cooled aircraft engines known to be produced in quantity in Germany. It powers the Junkers Ju 88 and Heinkel He 11 IK…

Air‐line Engineering Management

Ivor Lusty

VI.—OUT‐STATIONS IT has already been pointed out that the engineering maintenance department is a minor factor to the major factor of flying operations and, therefore, for maximum…

Foreign Research Progress

This report deals with the development of a method which gives a lucid and convenient solution of the flow conditions in the vicinity of a common, thick aerofoil section wherein…

Standardization of Aero‐Engine Components

G. Carvelli

STANDARDIZATION of engine components should start in the drawing office. To ensure uniformity in regard to method of dimensioning and standardization of data and notes, a system…

Tools for the Workshop

The Kendal & Gent C.V.M. 65 vertical milling machine is similar in design to the C.V.M. 40, produced by the same firm, except that its capacity is larger and the spindle motor is…

U.S. Patent Specifications

Aircraft structure comprising a pair of normally abutting airfoils having a pair of spaced opposite outer surfaces, each surface being substantially continuous with respect to the…