Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 21 Issue 6

Reflections on Paris

THE principal feature of this issue is the customary survey by our Technical Editor of the eighteenth biennial Paris Aero Salon—the second since the War. There is no doubt…

The Aeroplanes of the XVIIIe Salon de I'Aéronautique: Our Technical Editor's Impressions of the Principal Exhibits at the Second Post‐war Paris Aero Show

THE immediate impression of this year's Salon was that of a return to reality. Instead of the customary collection of fanciful mock‐ups posed precariously in artistic diving or…

A Simple Approach to Wind Tunnel Constriction Effect: The Problem of the Influence of the Walls in Increasing the Velocity in the Neighbourhood of a Model under Test

W.J. Duncan

THE paper reviews the problem of the influence of the walls of a closed tunnel in increasing the velocity in the neighbourhood of a model under test. It is shown that, for a…

A Tailless Research Aircraft: An Account of the Structural Design, Manufacture and Flight Trials of the Tailless Glider of the National Research Council of Canada

W.J. Cox, J.N. Siddall, T.E. Stephenson

FOR some years there has been proceeding, under the auspices of the National Research Council of Canada, an investigation of the control and stability characteristics of tailless…

The Elementary Theory of. Stressed Skin Construction: The Second of a Series of Articles on the Stressing of Modern Aeroplane Structures

W.S. Hemp

A STRUCTURE is, or at least should be, the result of purposive design. It is there‐fore rational and the principles of its functioning should be apparent after a little study. Its…

Simplified Tooling with Plastic Laminate: Preliminary Information on an Economical Method of Tooling Developed by the Republic Aviation Corporation

Harry Wilkin Perry

TIME spent and expense incurred in making jigs, fixtures and some other production tools have been reduced substantially during a tooling simplification programme conducted for…

Notes on Sandwich Construction: An Article Based on a Paper Read by the Author at the VIIth International Congress of Applied Mechanics London, Sept. 5–11, 1948

J. Lockwood Taylor

THIS is the type of panel which has received most attention from investigators and the critical load for local wrinkling of a single skin of thickness t is most simply expressed as

The Library Shelf

The following review of this important publication has been prepared, at the Editor's request, by the French Arsenal de l'Aéronautique.

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…

Centreless Grinding of Headed Pieces: Monotonous Operation Eliminated and Production Increased by an Automatic Machine

In FIG. 1 arc illustrated certain headed parts which are required in very large quantities ground on the shank to an accurate diameter. The closeness of the limits on such work as…

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…