Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 18 Issue 7

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

An Explanation

AFTER six months of luxury we make with this issue an enforced return to austerity. With what has unfortunately proved to be unjustifiable optimism we at the beginning of this…

Development of the Rolls‐Royce Merlin from 1939 to 1945

A Lecture Delivered by Mr. A. C. Lovesey to the de Havilland Aircraft Company Technical Department in November, 1945. SINCE the war ended a number of British and American…

Stress Diffusion Problems

W.J. Goodey

IN this section we investigate various accurate solutions of the problem of the reinforced panel by using the stress‐function. We are then able to form an idea of the accuracy of…

The Analysis of Plane Braced Frames: An Extension of the Method for Determining Secondary Stresses in Members of Varying Cross‐Section

R.J. Cornish

IN an article, referred to throughout as “the previous article”, on the calculation of secondary stresses, the method of moment balance was applied to a frame built up of…

The Calculation of Frequencies of Vibration of a Truncated Cone: Development of the Theories for the Longitudinal, Flexural and Torsional Vibration of a Truncated Wedge

H.D. Conway

THIS paper is intended as a sequel to a paper by Dr. J. F. C. Conn entitled “Vibration of a Truncated Wedge” (AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. XVI, April 1944, pp. 103–105). The three…

Fluid Power Transmission in Aeroplanes: Some Notes on the Fundamental Principles to be Borne in Mind in Choosing Accessory Systems

D.G.A. Rendel

IT is probably true to say that the opinion most widely held about aircraft accessory power systems is that they are a necessary evil about which nothing very much can be done…

Alloys of the Heavy Metals: An Outline of Recent Developments in a New Branch of Metallurgy

G. Fitzgerald‐Lee

THIS paper shows briefly the origins and development of a comparatively new and certainly important branch of engineering science. For many years the alloys of the light metals…

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…

Servicing the Derwent I Jet Engine

F/Lt. S. Cooper

SERVICING, at specified intervals, is essential to the safe and reliable running of all mechanical devices. This is, perhaps, even more important in the case of the jet engine…

Tools for the Workshop

Since the range of toggle clamps produced by Speed Tools Ltd., of 35 Percy Street, London, W.1 was originally placed on the market during the war, improvements in design have been…

U.S. Patent Specifications

Fire‐fighting equipment for aircraft comprising one or more electrically actuated fire extinguisher fluid containers, an electric current supply source, a load circuit connected…

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