Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 25 Issue 6
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An International JournalTable of contents
Applied Science
IT was, we believe, SIR HENRY TIZARD who described the 1939–45 war as a physicist's war. This was a picturesque phrase which has always remained in the memory. So far as aircraft…
Efficiency and Drag of an Axial‐Flow Compressor Stage: The Connexion Between the Efficiency of a Stage, the Forces on the Blade Sections and the Profile Drag; the Relation Between Different Definitions of Efficiency, and the Effect of other Sources of Loss
J.M. StephensonTHE performance of an axial‐flow compressor is most easily analysed in terms of the characteristics of each stage, by which is meant each pair of blade rows. Usually one row…
Techniques of Flow Visualization: A Discussion of the Fundamentals with Examples of Techniques Used in Research
E. BalintThis article deals with the joint use of two branches of Physics for the solution of flow problems. These two branches arc Optics and Fluid Mechanics. The basic principles of…
The Slingsby Sky High‐Performance Sailplane: A Successful British Design Which Achieved International Honours Last Year
J.R. ReussnerTHE Slingsby Sky is a British designed high‐performance sailplane and is intended for cross‐country and competition flying. The prototype Sky first flew in the summer of 1950 and…
One‐Dimensional High‐Speed Flows: Flow Patterns Derived for the Flow of Gases Through Nozzles, IncludingCompressibility and Viscosity Effects
J. Kestin, S.K. ZarembaThe paper discusses the types of singular points occurring in the first‐order ordinary differential equation which describes compressible viscous flow in a channel or stream tube…
A Precision Scribing and Lofting Table: Details of a Piece of Equipment Developed by Short Bros. and Harland Ltd.
A PRECISION Scribing and Lofting Table, which provides an accurate mechanical means whereby layout and lofting processes can be performed to close tolerances in the minimum of…
The Physical Society's Exhibition: Particulars of a Few of the Exhibits Shown at the 37th Exhibition Held at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, from April 13—17
THE greater part of this exhibition was devoted to electronic devices, many of which play a direct or indirect part in the work of the aeronautical engineer but whicharc too…
The Library Shelf
This is an important book, as it is the first volume of an entirely new edition of a work sponsored and approved by the Royal Aeronautical Society. In the preface we arc told that…
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
An aerofoil comprises three spanwise control sections, the sections with the smallest and greatest meanline cambers being located at the root 1 and tip 3 respectively, the camber…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A liquid carrier comprising an elongated tank having adjacent its longitudinal centre a liquid tight partition, a pair of collapsible liquid tight bags, one at either side of said…
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- Prof Phil Webb