Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 25 Issue 4

Free‐Flight Models

WE have left unaltered the title of MR SHORTAL'S lecture before the SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS though it is by no means accurately descriptive of the objects with which he…

The N.A.C.A.'s Role in Guided Missile Research

Joseph A. Shortal

THE role of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the present national effort devoted to the development of guided missiles is quite similar to the role the N.A.C.A…

The Design and Installation of Aircraft Sanitary Systems: A Comprehensive Survey of an Important Subject on Which Little Has Been Published

G.S. Bowey

There arc few published works dealing with British aircraft sanitary systems and associated equipment and a comprehensive survey of this particular subject should not, therefore…

Electrical Circuits for Adding Strain Gauge Signals: An Investigation of Modified Wheatstone Bridge Circuits

E.H. Mansfield

Four electrical circuits for adding strain gauge signals in various proportions are considered and their relative efficiencies and sensitivities examined. The addition is effected…

The Library Shelf

P.L.T., A.S.F., A.G.P., H.B.H.

For 5,000 years man has had experience of metal. Considerable though this period is, if judged on an historical rather than on a geological basis, it has proved all too short for…

Structural Testing at Short Brothers and Harland: Some Details of New Equipment Installed at Belfast

WITH the establishment of Short Brothers and Harland Ltd, at Belfast, the need arose for complete equipment for the testing of aircraft structures and components, it not being…

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

Two new bevel gear machines have recently been introduced by Maag to solve some of the problems normally associated with the production of accurate bevel gears. These are the Maag…

Month in the Patent Office

A propeller 1 in a stationary tubular casing 2 rotates inside a guard ring 3 which is mounted for free rotation inside the casing on bearings 4, the free flow of air between the…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aeroplane, a plurality of flaps to be moved through a range of positions, a reversible flap actuating motor for each flap, a pilot moved control member, a follow‐up member…