Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 2 Issue 12
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The Dangers of Press Publicity
THE fierce light of publicity beats down on everything aeronautic. No mechanical invention has so captured the popular imagination as flying. Though this has its advantages, it is…
Safety and Multi‐Engined Machines: A Discussion on Mathematical Lines of the Effect of Dividing Power into Several Units
W.L. CowleyIN order to obtain machines of large carrying capacity, there is a tendency to increase the number of power units, and it is of great interest to consider the effect of this…
Testing Supercharged Engines: A Description of the Apparatus and Discussion of the Theory of a Method Found Satisfactory in Practice
J. Pettitt‐HerriotSUPERCHARGED aero engines are more or less a post‐war invasion into the practical side of aero‐engine design. The problem of power boosting for internal combustion engines…
Wireless Direction Finding: A General Survey with Details of Some New Systems Recently Developed
C.B. CarrTHE art of navigating any mobile craft depends essentially on being able to determine the position of that craft with relation to a fixed point or points; the position may either…
Non‐Ferrous Metals for Aircraft: The Conclusion of a Complete Survey of the Properties of Aluminium and Magnesium Alloys
D. HansonAt this stage I think that we can usefully give some detailed consideration to the copper‐aluminium alloys, and reference may in this connection be made to the equilibrium diagram…
Aerodynamics for Engineers: III.—Inviscid Flow—Irrotational and Vortex Motion—Aerofoil Lift and Induced Drag
N.A.V. PiercyWE found, on experimental grounds in Article I, that the field of air‐flow past a short body of low resistance shape, such as an aerofoil, comprises two dissimilar parts: (a) a…
Recent Technical Developments: Ground Lighting Requirements with Details of Chance Brothers' Productions—New Armstrong‐Siddeley Engines
The general trend in aero‐lighting apparatus which is purely illuminative seems rather towards improvement of existing types than to the evolution of larger or novel types, an…
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 U.S. National Advisory…
Month in the Patent Office: A Selection of the More Important Aircraft and Engine Specifications Published Recently
In frame structures for vehicles and aircraft a sheet‐metal member having screwed bosses thereon is shaped to fit within or on one of the frame members to receive the fastening…
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- Prof Phil Webb