Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 17 Issue 3

A notable achievement

IN this issue we are able to give the first authoritative description of the extremely ingenious equipment providing “automatic” aids to air navigation which has been under…

Automatic Air Navigation: A Description of Some New British equipment

F.H. Scrimshaw, J.A. Wells

THE basic method of air navigation is deduced reckoning or simply dead reckoning. The method comprises the maintenance of an air pilot, which is made by calculating true airspeed…

Assessing Control Qualities: The Hystero‐Differential Method applied to Elevator Characteristics

W.E. Hick

IN so far as the behaviour of an aeroplane in flight depends upon the behaviour of its pilot, it is relatively unpredictable, and for practical purposes seems likely to remain so…

Modern Aeroplane Types: The Vickers‐Armstrong Air‐Sea Rescue and Transport Command Warwick

THE Warwick is the third type to be built entirely on the Wallis principle of geodetic construction and is palpably an enlarged version of the ubiquitous Wellington. In addition…

Stability of Tailless Aeroplanes

A.R. Weyl

IN a series of articles entitled “Tailless Aircraft and Flying Wings”, concluded last month, the evolution of the tailless aeroplane and the flying wing was treated. The different…

List of Selected Translations

APPLICATIONS for the loan of copies of translations mentioned below should be addressed to the SECRETARY (R.T.P.3), MINISTRY OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, LONDON, S.W.1, and copies will…

The Strength of Riveted Joints: The Results of a Statistical Analysis of Test Data

I.G. Bowen

A CONSIDERABLE volume of data on the strength of typical aircraft rivets in joints of Alclad (D.T.D. 390) sheet, has been published in the M.A.P.'s Scientific and Technical…

Magnetic Crack Detection

J.E.D. Bell

In Part I the elementary principles of magnetic crack detection have been discussed, and an endeavour made to explain the elements of a system which has been satisfactorily…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a spinner for the hub of an airscrew, a spinner shell, spoked supports therefor adapted for attachment to said hub, an annular member adapted for detachable connexion with said…