Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 25 Issue 12
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An International JournalTable of contents
A Prince Charmingj?
THE news is extremely pleasing that movements are on foot to make some commercial use of the three Saunders‐Roe Princess flying boats. Sardonically enough there even seems to be…
The Normal Modes of Vibration of an Aircraft: A Comprehensive Technique for the Determination of Aircraft Normal Modes Using a Matrix Method
N.P. Shevloff, T.J. ReidIn order to provide information for flutter and dynamic stress calculations on an aircraft a knowledge of the normal modes of vibration is required. In the following paper a…
Blast Cooling of Electrical Machinery: A Note on the Limitations of Blast Cooling as a Means of Cooling Airborne Equipment
A.C. BoswellThe purpose of this note is to demonstrate, from the aircraft designer's point of view, the difficulties and penalties involved in blast cooling electrical machinery and to…
Pressure Ratios for Aero‐Engines: A Note on the Factors Limiting the Choice of Pressure Ratio
J.M. StephensonIT is usually supposed that the designer of a gas turbine engine has considerable freedom in choosing the pressures, temperatures and other features. Indeed this apparent…
Torsion of a Multi‐webbed Rectangular Tube: An Exact Solution of the Problem Treated Approximately by Mr Mansfield
W.H. WittrickA PREVIOUS paper by Mansfield considered the problem of the torsion of a doubly symmetrical rectangular box containing a large number of equidistant identical webs. Mansfield…
Transient Thermal Stresses in Wings: An Assessment of the Stresses in a Cellular Wing Structure Which Undergoes a Change of Temperature
E.W. ParkesThe following paper discusses the transient thermal stresses set up in a cellular wing structure when the aircraft is subjected to a change of speed or of altitude. It is found…
S.A.E. National Aeronautic Meeting: Summaries of Papers Presented at the Meeting Held in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., on September 29–October 3, 1953
The design of wing lower tension surfaces is considered as an illustration of the general principles.
Dimensional Metrology in Aircraft Production
A Report by A. G. Thomson on the Papers of Aeronautical Interest Delivered at the Symposium on Engineering Dimensional Metrology Held at Teddington on October 21–23
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…
Tools for the Workshop
Fig. 1 shows a small tool which has been produced by Civitas Trading Corporation Ltd., Wigmorc House, 10 Duke Street, London, Wl, forthcremoval of ball bearings from shafts…
Month in the Patent Office
These abstracts of British Patent Specifications are condensed, by permission, from the official specifications. Copies of the full specifications are obtainable from the Patent…
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…
German Patent Abstracts
Translated Abstracts of a Selection from the New Post‐war Scries of Patents Granted in the German Federal Republic. In the drawings, the control surface I, constructed as a…
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- Prof Phil Webb