Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 20 Issue 5

Getting Down to Laminar Flow

AS some of our readers will be aware, PROFESSOR GOLDSTEIN'S Wright‐Brothers lecture appears in the April issue of the Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, which has reached this…

Low‐Drag and Suction Aerofoils: The Eleventh Wright Brothers Lecture delivered by Dr Sydney Goldstein, Chairman of the Aeronautical Research Council, before the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on December 17th, 1947

I SHOULD like first to say how much I appreciate the honour of being invited to deliver the Wright Brothers Lecture. To anyone whose work is associated in any way with the…

German Landing Gear Design and Testing: Although prepared at the end of the war, this Report No. 251, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office for the British Intelligence Objectives Sub‐Committee, which was drawn up by Mr P. H. Watson and Mr S. A. Makovski of the R.A.E. Farnborough, contains a considered analysis of German undercarriage ideas that is still of considerable interest

THE object of the trip was to ascertain German experience of aeroplane under‐carriages and their methods of design, testing and manufacturing them. Inquiries were also made about…

Manufacturing the Percival Prentice: An Account by the Technical Editor of the Production of the Hew All‐Metal Basic Trainer for the Royal Air Force

THE manufacturing methods and processes being used by Percival Aircraft Ltd., at Luton, in the production of the Prentice are of more than usual interest because this is the first…

Calculation of Frequencies of Truncated Pyramids: Development of the Theories for the Longitudinal, Flexural and Torsional Vibrations of a Truncated Cone

H.D. Conway

IN a previous paper by the author (‘The Calculation of Frequencies of Vibration of a Truncated Cone’, AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. XVIII, July 1946, pp. 235–236) expressions for the…

The Library Shelf: Two Books on Fluid Mechanics‐More Stress Analysis Proceedings

D.M.C.

Within the last two decades great progress has been made in the field of hydrodynamics, both in the theoretical sense as well as the practical. This has been particularly…

The Machining of Stainless Steels: A Paper Discussing the Problems Peculiar to the Working of Chromium and Chromium‐Nickel Steels in the Machine Shop

W.H. Crisp, W. Burnan

FROM a machinability aspect, stainless steels may be classified into three categories, the general analysis of which influences the machinability factor.

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…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a power plant the combination of a combustion and turbine section including a housing, axially spaced bearings carried by the housing, a shaft supported in said bearings and…