Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 20 Issue 8

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

Tribute to a Pioneer

TO those who have grown up with aeronautics the name of General Crocco is almost a legendary one, and he is in historical fact contemporary with the Wright Brothers since his…

Passing Through the Sonic Barrier

Part I—The Jet Propulsion Engine IN a study of high‐speed flight presented to the Accademia dei Lincei in 1926 (G. A. Crocco, The Possibilities of Super‐Aviation, February 7th…

The Servicing of Hydraulic Equipment: Comprehensive Notes on the Maintenance Duties and Problems that face the Mechanic

H.G. Conway

THESE notes have been prepared because it is a fact that there is no publication available to the ordinary aeroplane mechanic which gives him the essential information which will…

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Thermodynamic Properties of Combustion Gases: A Simplified Basis for the Calculation of Gas Turbine Efficiencies in which all the Variables are Related to the Properties of Air by means of Determined Constants

J. Kestin

THE calculation of gas turbine efficiencies on the basis of the real properties of the working medium is a laborious process. Such a calculation involves the determination of the…

The Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition: Advance Notices of Some of the Equipment Displayed After a Lapse of Fourteen Years

THE Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition which is being held in Olympia, London, from August 26 to September 11, is the revival of an event which last took place in 1934. In…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Notes of the United States National…

Trade Announcements

Air Survey Co. Ltd., a subsidiary company in the Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd. group of companies, announces the formation of a new subsidiary company in Pakistan and the revision of…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb