Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 17 Issue 4
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An International JournalTable of contents
Telling the world
EVER since the days of LORD BEAVERBROOK (“big bombs— beautiful bombs”) the bomb has, in the mind of the British public, been surrounded by an aura of glamour and each larger…
Stressed‐Skin Wings in Pure Torsion: Simple Solutions for the Proportion of the Torque Resisted by Two Spars in Differential Bending
H.M.J. KittelsenBEING basically a strain energy problem, no quick method has so far been evolved—to the author's knowledge—for the determination of the relative distribution of the torque between…
Modern Aeroplane Types: The Northrop Black Widow
NORTHROP aeroplanes are usually unconventional and the P.61 Black Widow, is no exception. The tail boom arrangement has only been used on about half‐a‐dozen modern aeroplanes…
The Rudlicki Vee Tail
IN AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. XIV, March 1932, pp. 63–66, there appeared under the above heading an account of some experiments carried out by M. GEORGES RUDLICKI, the technical…
Stability of Tailless Aeroplanes
A.R. WeylTHE complexity of the problems which are associated with the lateral stability and directional control of tailless aeroplanes was not realized until rather late.
Research Reports and Memoranda
Consideration is restricted to the stressing of blades in steady flight. The loading actions on a blade are analyzed into two components; a transverse load system which tends to…
The Calibration of Cylindrical Tanks
C.F. AllenTHE writer has had on occasions to calibrate a cylindrical tank, and found that whilst this task presents no real difficulties, a lot of time was spent on the necessary…
The Effect of Water‐Borne Blast
R.G. WorcesterTHIS subject would be irrelevant to airmen but for the facts that, firstly, the Japanese war is clearly a more amphibious affair than war nearer home, and secondly, the Japanese…
Perforated Tension Joints
I.G. BowenMUCH theoretical and experimental data are available on the strength and stiffness of tension joints with perforations. The object of the present paper is twofold: firstly, to…
A Master Assembly‐Fixture Tooling Dock
Harry Wilkin PerryMANY months can be saved in tooling for production a new type aeroplane by use of a master tooling dock invented by Leland A. Bryant, of Beverly Hills, California, whose patents…
The Importance of Attention to Jig Details
H. MooreSINCE the design of drill jigs permits the adoption of an almost unlimited range of new ideas it is curious to note the lack of originality in the minor components. Most of the…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In combination, a supercharger, multi‐speed transmission for driving said supercharger comprising a continuously driven carrier, medium and high speed planet gears rotatably…
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