Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 2 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents
The Incidence of Noise
FLYING is still so novel a feature of modern life that it has not yet passed the stage when the generality of people look upon it as a marvel. It is still to them a wonderful…
Technical Progress in 1929: A Review of Achievements and the Lessons of Olympia With a Tribute to R 101's Designer and a Final Plea for Courage
W.S. FarrenTO the originator of the policy of advancing aviation by making the country “air‐minded” 1929 must seem, as he looks back on it, an outstanding year. And of all the items that…
The Progress of Aerodynamic Research in 1929: A Review of the Work Done During the Year on Fundamental Problems of Fluid Flow and Other Subjects Such as Interference
Ernest F. RelfTHERE has been no diminution during the past year in the number of old and new problems demanding research, and all available equipment has been in continuous use. In spite of…
Rigid Airship Design and Construction: An Account, Hitherto Unpublished, of the Design Considerations Leading to the Principal Features of R 100
B.N. WallisTHERE are two outstanding principles which underlie all airship design, two criteria by which everything undertaken may bo judged. The first is that the body produced shall offer…
H.M. Airship R 100—A Description: Principal Particulars and Details, Powering Data and Arrangements Are Here Arranged in Concise Form
THE hull of R 100 is a sixteen‐sided polygon, measuring 709 ft. in length, with a maximum diameter, situated about two diameters, 266 ft., from the nose, of 133 ft., the height of…
Marking the Modern Air Route: The Lighting of Civil Air Routes and Aerodromes for Night Flying Considered in the Light of Modern Development
A.K. Toulmin Smith, H.N. GreenTO enable aircraft to compete with other forms of transport, on a commercial basis, it is essential that services should be run during the hours of darkness. With this end in view…
Air Route Organisation in U.S.A.: Intermediate Landing Grounds at 30‐Mile Intervals and Route Beacons Every Ten Miles Are the Features of American Night‐Flying Airways
BETWEEN terminal or intermediate airports, intermediate landing fields are provided at approximately 30‐mile intervals.
The Sounds of Aeroplanes: Notes on the Experiments Carried Out in 1918 at Butley Experimental Air Station on the Sounds of Aeroplanes
BY the end of 1917 it had become clear that the ultimate possibility of defence against night air raids might depend upon the possibility of hearing the attacking aircraft from…
The Big Dyle et Bacalan D.B.70: Details of a New 28‐Passenger Transport Monoplane With a Thick Wing Central Body and Twin Fuselages
THE Société Aérienne Bordelaisc of Bordeaux (formerly the Société Anonyme des Travaux Dyle et Bacalan) have recently assembled and tested their new 28‐passenger transport plane at…
Flying Laboratories: Two Machines Built in Germany for the D.V.L. Have Been Designed to Try Out Engines and Wings
The Heinkel H.D.44 THE H.D.44 is a development of the newspaper transport Heinkel H.D.40. It is designed to provide a flying engine “test bed,” and its construction, with…
Month in the Patent Office: A Selection from Important Recently Published Aircraft and Aero Engine Specifications
Planes, construction of.—A wing is built up on a single spar composed of plates 2, 3, 4, simple angles 1, and. U‐profiles of sections suited to the local stresses, and ribs 8…
Three Newly Published Books: An American Survey of the Engine Position—Precision Measuring Methods in Workshop and Laboratory—The Problem of Torsional Resonance
There has for some years now been a very definite need for a treatise on modern aircraft engines; a book that will present an analysis of present tendencies in design, and an…
Research Reports and Memoranda
In Part I the drags of certain streamline models are compared with the skin friction on thin flat plates having the same exposed surface areas and the same lengths parallel to the…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb