Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 18 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Uniformity
FOURTEEN months ago we published an article very strongly criticizing the electrical equipment in British aeroplanes, which resulted in correspondence of a somewhat acrimonious…
Automatic and Controllable Airscrews for Light Aeroplanes
FOR the past twenty‐five years inventors and engineers have laboured to design and perfect an airscrew in which pitch change is accomplished automatically by the action of natural…
Jet‐Propulsion Gas Turbines: A Review of the Characteristics of the Jet Engine in Relation to the Aerodynamic and Thermodynamic Variables as Power Units
D.L. MordellTHE engines used for the jet propulsion of aircraft have been described in detail on many occasions in the last year or so. Most of these descriptions, however, have been purely…
The Problem of Rotating n‐Bladed Laminae
Instructor‐Lieutenant J.A. JacobsCONSIDER an n‐bladed lamina in the z plane, rotating with angular velocity w, the length of each blade being a. Consider the transformation
Evolution of Energy in Jet and Rocket Propulsion
P. BielkowiczTHE task of any recoil engine consists in transforming the chemical energy of fuel into the kinetic energy of gases leaving the nozzle. This article gives a brief survey of…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and technical Notes of the United States National…
Some Books Recently Received
The present volume is the third in the new series of half‐yearly proceedings issued by the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis and consists of a collection of papers read…
The Standard Wiring System for Aircraft
F. EmsleyTHIS article and that published last month taken together are, to some extent, an answer to the one by Mr. T. Kearns published in January, 1945; in which he raised a number of…
The Efficient Control of Twist Drills: Notes on some of the Difficult Problems in Drilling that Beset the Fitter
H. MooreONE of the noticeable effects of the extensive application of drill jigs is a steady decline in the number of fully qualified hands. Too many operators are jig specialists and…
Making the Largest Aircraft Tyre
Stages in the manufacture of the Goodyear tyre. Particulars are: dia. 110 in.; bead dia. 44 in.; width 36 in.; weight 2,600 lb.; tube weight 250 lb.
Tools for the Workshop
A new hand‐bending tool, which permits all kinds of small tubing to be curved to any desired angle, has been developed by the Glenn L. Martin Company.
U.S. Patent Specifications
The combination with a turbo‐supercharger comprising a turbine adapted to be supplied with operating gases from an internal combustion engine, a compressor adapted to supply air…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb