Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 21 Issue 11

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

The Transport Aeroplane of the Future

SHORTLY after the holding in America in May this year of the second Anglo‐American Conference arranged jointly by the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institute of the…

Turbine‐Engined Transport Aircraft

IN reviewing the progress and promise of turbine‐engined transport aircraft, it is intended to cover pure jet, propeller turbine and compound turbine engines impartially. If the…

Thermodynamic Properties of Combustion Gases, II

IN an earlier paper we showed that the calculation of the thermodynamic properties of gases obeying the perfect gas law, but having variable specific heats, can be considerably…

Some Facts About Aircraft Hydraulic Systems: The Advantages and Limitations Attending the Use of Hydraulic Power for Aircraft Ancillary Services, with Particular Reference to Non‐inflammable Fluids

C.A.H. Pollitt

IT is paradoxical that we are endeavouring to supplant hydraulic power by other, alternative, media at a time when it is being successfully applied to purposes for which it is…

Aircraft Engineering Reference Sheet: 4.—The Auster and Taylorcraft Plus D

T. Tonkin

Type: Composite construction, strut braced, high wing mono‐plane.

Two‐Spar Wing Stress Analysis: A Method Taking into Account the Finite Spacing of the Ribs, with Detailed Numerical Calculations and Test Results for a Model Wing Test Specimen

W.J. Goodey

IT was now evident that some other effect would have to be taken into account to obtain a more exact agreement between theory and experiment, and it was fairly obvious that the…

Trade Announcements

Mr W. W. Warner, A.F.R.Ae.S., has recently been appointed to the post of Service Manager with Airspeed Ltd., of Christchurch Aerodrome, Hants. He is based at the Christchurch…

The IL‐12 Air Liner: Some Details Gleaned When a C.S.A. Machine Briefly Visited Northolt Recently

The IL‐12 design was begun in 1943 and the type was in service with Aero‐flot by 1948. A military version is also in service. The engines are ASH‐82FN 14‐cylinder radials Twin…

Research Reports and Memoranda

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

U.S. Patent Specifications

These details and drawings of patents granted in the United States are taken, by permission of the Department of Commerce, from the ‘Official Gazette of the United States Patent…

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