Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 21 Issue 8
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An International JournalTable of contents
Clearing the Ground
THROUGHOUT the twenty years' career of Aircraft Engineering, we have consistently tried to be of assistance to the stressman by publishing articles on his craft. This has been…
The Silencing of Test Houses for Turbo‐Jet Engines: An Account of the Problems Involved and the Means by which they have Been Overcome in a New French Installation
A. de RosenTHE problem of silencing test houses for turbo‐jet engines is, acoustically, analogous to that for test beds for piston engines1 and 2 but is more complicated owing to the working…
An American Gas Turbine of Low Power: A Unit Developed Experimentally by the Boeing Airplane Company for Study and Investigation
H.W. PerryA LOW‐POWER gas‐turbine engine developed by the Boeing Airplane Company and the reasons for its evolution were des‐cribed by S. D. Hage, chief of the company's propulsion…
The Development of Turbine Engines in France: An Account of Some of the Experimental Work Carried Out by the Research Departments of the Société Rateau at La Courneuve
IN the years preceding the last World War, before it was concerned with the problem of the gas turbine, the Société Rateau dealt, with some success, with the very important…
The Elementary Theory of. Stressed‐Skin Construction: Two Further Instalments of a Series on the Stressing of Modern Aeroplane Structures
W.S. HempAIRCRAFT wings, tail planes, fuselages and control surfaces have to satisfy certain mandatory requirements of stiffness. These requirements arc designed to ensure the absence of…
The Determination of Redundant Constraints in Beams: A Simple Statement, with Proofs, of Formulae for the Three Principal Cases
F.E.S. MantonIN what follows n‐2 equations have been obtained, valid for all kind of beams having n rigid level supports, and which are either:
Aircraft Engineering Reference Sheets
T. TonkinThe Gemini is a four‐seater wooden aeroplane designed for service on personal, club or taxi duties. Dual controls can be fitted and glider‐towing equipment can also be installed…
The Library Shelf
The latest two sets of Proceedings of the above Society contain a useful variety of papers; there are five papers on photoelastic matters, nine on electrical resistance…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading arc published regularly abstracts of all Report and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Notes of the United States Notional…
Trade Announcements
The Glasgow Branch of B.S.A. Tools Ltd., and of the distributing organization, Burton, Griffiths & Co. Ltd., Machine Tools and Small Tools, has been moved to new premises at 46…
Tools for the Workshop
At the Mechanical Handling Exhibition this year there was on show for the first time, a pallet truck which had been evolved for the Admiralty. Since then, the War Office, R.A.F.…
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…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb