Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 22 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Twenty‐One Today
THIS issues marks the twenty‐first anniversary of the birth of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING.
Jet Flow and Its Effects on Aircraft: An Analysis of Experimental Data on Velocity and Temperature Distribution with a Discussion of the Effects of Jets on Drag and Stability
H.B. SquireThe data on round jets in still air and in a general stream are analysed to determine the spread of the jet and the decay of the axial velocity distribution. The temperature…
An American Development in Cargo‐carrying Aeroplanes: The Chase Avitruk Twin‐Engined Aeroplanes Developed from Gliders for the U.S. Air Force
H.W. PerryAIR freight carried by commercial transport operators has increased rapidly in volume during the last five years, especially since 1947. In the first eight months of 1949, for…
Performance Estimation of Civil Jet Aircraft: The Four Main Stages of a Flight—Take‐Off, Climb, Cruise and Landing—Considered in Turn
Alun D. EdwardsTHE performance of civil aircraft having pure jet engines as opposed to turbine‐propeller engines will be considered since it is thought that for the latter the methods usually…
Some Factors Affecting Large Transport Aeroplanes with Turbo‐Prop Engines
TO deliver a lecture in commemoration of the Wright Brothers before the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences is a great honour of which I am deeply aware: this honour one feels is…
A Servicing Innovation: Details of a Recent Modification to the Fairey Firefly
THE accompanying photographs, which we publish by courtesy of The Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd., were received a few days too late for inclusion in our article on maintenance design…
The Library Shelf
L.H.Reviewing this Standard from the viewpoint of the aircraft engineer, one is immediately conscious of the fact that much of the subject matter does not come within his province. A…
Aircraft Engineering Reference Sheet: 6—Short Sealand
T. TonkinThis comprises a pump on each engine either of which draws air through the gyro‐operated instruments via a change‐over cock (dash‐starboard) and Plessey 215B adjustable relief…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Memoranda of the United States…
Trade Announcements
The British Non‐Ferrous Metals Research Association announces the election of the following new officers: Lt.‐Col. the Hon. R. M. Preston, D.S.O., as Chairman of Council…
Tools for the Workshop
R.F.D. Industrial Equipment It is not, perhaps, generally known that the R.F.D. Company (known for many years for its design and manufacture of balloons, dinghys, safety equipment…
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