Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 25 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents
Artificially Compounded Materials
WE are printing in full Mr J. E. GORDON'S Plastics Institute Annual Lecture because it seems to us to be directed as much to the aeronautical engineer as to the worker in…
Progress in Two‐Seater Sailplane Design: A Summary of Technical Development During the Past Thirty Years
B.S. ShenstoneTHIS article attempts to summarize the technical development of two‐seater sailplanes during the past thirty years. There is no attempt to contribute anything new to the art, but…
The Library Shelf
As its title (in English, ‘Rocket Propulsion—Its Development, Application and Future’) implies and its foreword emphasizes, this volume is concerned more with rocket design and…
The Future of Plastics in Engineering
ENGINEERING is essentially a practical subject and attention to detail generally makes the difference between success and failure, yet, since I believe that it is the custom for…
Undercarriage Performance During Landing: A Mathematical Theory Illustrating a Useful Method of Approximation
R.F. HazardIT has been said that the trouble with a mathematical solution to an industrial problem is that it is, only too often, an exact solution to another problem. This state of affairs…
Torsional Stresses in Multi‐Webbed Rectangular Cylinders: A Rapid Approximate Method for Solving the Problems of Symmetrical Sections
E.H. MansfieldThe determination of the torsional stiffness and shear stresses in a multi‐webbed cylinder is quite straight‐forward. However, if the number of webs is large (say, Ave or more…
Strength Tests by Towing in Water: Description of an Economical Method Used in Germany Before and During the War
Winfried BraunA strength testing method formerly used in Germany is described. Aircraft components were towed under water in a large tank so that loads were produced on the specimen equivalent…
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…
Month in the Patent Office
In an aircraft with folding wings, the movable portions 5 are connected to the fixed portions 4 by hinges whose axes X—X1 arc inclined and located in the longitudinal plane of the…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In a gas turbine plant adapted to operate according to a cycle at variable pressure but constant volume, a source of air under pulsating pressure comprising a centrifugal…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb