Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 23 Issue 3
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Floodlight on Metals
A CONSIDERABLE number of our home readers, at any rate, no doubt attended the meetings at which the symposium of papers on high‐temperature steels and alloys, arranged by the IRON…
The Effect of Grain Direction on Mechanical Properties of Light Alloy Extrusions: A Report on a Series of Tests Carried Out by Vickers‐Armstrongs at Weybridge
D.M. McElhinneyIT has been generally accepted for some time that the mechanical properties of light alloys varied with the direction of grain, but even in the design of aircraft structures only…
Notes on the Development of the Bristol 171 Helicopter: An Outline of the Distinctive Features of the Type that Were Evolved as a Result of Experience
F.W. StokesTHE Bristol Aeroplane Company entered the field of helicopter production when a design office was inaugurated at the wartime dispersal factory at Banwell, Somerset, in July 1944…
The Use of Auxiliary Rockets in High‐Speed Aircraft: An Analysis of the Possibilities of Rockets as Thrust Augmenters
Zb. PlaskowskiALTHOUGH a new epoch in high‐speed flight opened with the introduction of the jet propulsion engine, new problems were presented by the thrust characteristics and high…
The Steepest Angle of Climb of Jet Aeroplanes in Unaccelerated Flight: A Representation of the Problem of Finding the Steepest Angle of Climb in the Form of a Simple Dimensionless Vector Diagram
Elias JärvinevaWE first derive for jet aeroplanes the formulae for the least thrust sufficient for a specified angle of climb. In the mathematical derivation of formulae we make use of the…
High‐Temperature Steels and Alloys for Gas Turbines
A Survey of the Development of Creep‐resisting Alloys: N. P. Allen (Superintendent of the Metallurgy Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington). Official summaries…
Viscous Effects in Compressible Fluids
In view of the importance and fundamental character of the investigation, the initial stages of which are recorded in this report, we print hereunder the Preface explaining the…
Flight on Asymmetric Power
DEAR SIR, Flight‐Sergeant Wright's article on ‘Flight on asymmetrical engine power’, published in your December issue, dealt with the subject primarily from the point of view of…
The Library Shelf
J. Zbrozek, D.W.“Introduction to Helicopter Aerodynamics” is written in a simple and easily understandable way. The subject of helicopter performance, sometimes obscured by the complexity of the…
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
Mr F. J. Bates, M.B.E., Works Director of B.S.A. Tools Ltd., Mackadown Lane, Marston Green, Birmingham, and Index Automatic Machine Co. Ltd., and a director of Cardiff Foundry &…
Month in the Patent Office
J. Lucas, Ltd. and R. J. Ifield. Dec. 27, 1945, No. 34,919. The flow of liquid fuel from a variable delivery pump to the nozzle in a combustion chamber of a prime mover is…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In an aircraft undercarriage suspension, a cross member having spaced bearings for mounting said cross member on an aircraft and a bearing part between said spaced bearings; a…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb