Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 22 Issue 6
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An International JournalTable of contents
A Great Servant
IN view of the personal nature of the theme, I am this month abandoning the traditional editorial ‘we’ and writing in the first person.
The Development of the Lockheed P2Y Neptune: A Paper by a Senior Engineer of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Describing the Evolution of a New Aeroplane
J.B. WassallBACKGROUND IN the early stages of World War II the U.S. Navy used the Lockheed PV‐1 (Ventura) in considerable quantities as a land‐based patrol plane for anti‐submarine and…
Piston Velocities and Piston Work: The Influence of High Piston Velocities on the Pressure Distribution and Piston Work in Engine Cylinders
J.S. Glass, J. KestinWHEN evaluating engine efficiencies, mean effective pressures or the work done by the piston in internal combustion engines or compressors, it is generally assumed that the state…
Repeated Loading and Fatigue Tests on a D.H. 104 (Dove) Wing and Fin: An Account, with Comments by the Author, based on the de Havilland Aircraft Company's Own Series of Tests
W.A.P. FisherRepeated loading tests on a D.H.104 wing and fin were made by the de Havilland Aircraft Co.
The Warping and Constraint of Certain Rectangular Box Sections: Calculation of the Effect on a Simple Type of Shell of the Results of Torsion and Flexure
M. FineIT is well known that an originally plane section of a thin‐walled shell warps out of the plane of section when torsion and/or transverse shear is applied. The effects of local…
Lift Correction for Finite Chord: A Method of Close Approximation that is not Laborious and is Applicable in General to Wings without Sweep
J. Lockwood TaylorIT has been noted by Falkner and others that the ordinary aspect‐ratio corrections based on lifting‐line theory are not as accurate as had always been assumed even for normal…
The Dynamic Balancing of Turbines and Impellers: Practical Notes on Dynamic Balancing as Applied to Gas Turbine Rotating Assemblies
J.W. TomlinsonDYNAMIC balancing has become an important function in the production and repair of gas turbines used in aircraft. It is now general practice to dynamic balance every turbine wheel…
Production Engineering, Administration and Management: A Series of Articles Providing a Complete Survey of the Economics of Production for Aeronautical Engineers
J.V. ConnollyTHIS is the first of a scries of articles on the broad subject of Production Engineering. Its object is to introduce and to explain the framework of the subsequent parts; to clear…
The Library Shelf
THIS book, written by an engineer who felt that there was a need to provide a text in the field of the gas turbine in which the theory and practical application to specific design…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Techical Memoranda of the United States…
Month in the Patent Office
With this issue we revive a feature which appeared regularly up to June, 1940, when it was perforce discontinued. The details are taken, by permission, from the officially…
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:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Phil Webb