Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 16 Issue 3

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

POST‐WAR TRADE PROSPECTS

MANY of us remember the remarkable development during the Four Years War of what was then practically a new British industry engaged upon the design and manufacture of scientific…

Design Features of the Mosquito

R.B. McIntyre

THE Mosquito aeroplane is, perhaps, the outstanding achievement of this war. While the latest performance figures are still held secret, it may be told that it is the fastest…

The Elasticity of Plywood

H. Roberts

THE increase in speeds of modern aircraft types has brought with it many stiffness criteria for the prevention of flutter, entailing an accurate estimate of the stiffness and…

Vibrations in Aircraft: A Series of Articles covering the General Principles for Aeronautical Engineers

R.G. Manley

THE general properties of the resonance phenomenon, described in Part I, in connexion with the simple system consisting of a concentrated mass on a cantilever spring, pertain also…

Strength of Light‐Alloy Components

J.L. Beilschmidt

A FEATURE of many of the light alloys now in common use is that the stress and strain curve often does not evidence any well defined region in which the elastic strain becomes…

Two Books on the Moulding of Metals

W.D. Jones

THE moulded plastics industry has in the last few years, both in engineering and domestic directions, encroached upon the traditional fields of the metallurgist and it is now very…

Design and Production Technique: III. Principles Involved in Punching

A.J. Schroeder

THERE are three principal points which are of special importance in the manufacture of any industrial article:

The Conversion of Hardness Values

E. Skerry

THE employment of so many types of hardness testing machines, each designed with the object of meeting special requirements, has without doubt given rise to much misunderstanding…

The Instrument Industry and Aircraft Development

S.L. Barron

THE importance of instruments is nowhere more vital than in aircraft engineering and the science of flying. Indeed, the rapid progress in design made by aeronautical instruments…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a gear transmission, input and output shafts disposed at a right angle to one another, a first plurality of layshafts spaced around, parallel to and driven by the input shaft…

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