Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 26 Issue 7
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An International JournalTable of contents
Points of View
IN a letter to a Sunday paper a correspondent states that he recently travelled from London to Paris by air and that the journey from door to door (from his flat in London to his…
Contribution to the Structural Analysis of Swept Wings: A Method Suggested for the Approximate Determination of Skin Thicknesses
Pol BodetTHE St. Venant theory as applied to long beams of constant cross‐section could generally be used with sufficient accuracy for the solution of the structures encountered in…
Flexure‐Torsion Failure of Panels: A Study of Instability and Failure of Stiffened Panels under Compression when Buckling in Long Wavelengths
John H. ArgyrisThe methods developed in sections (5)–(7) are now applied to the determination of the torsional cum flexural failing stresses in two panels. The following points should be noted:
Thermal Problems of High Performance Flight: A Further Contribution to the Bristol Conference on Thermal Stress Organized by the Stress Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics
David RendelIN very high performance aircraft—that is aircraft flying at high speeds and high altitudes—the thermal problems confronting the mechanical engineer are becoming progressively…
A Production Application of Structural Adhesive Bonding: A Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers Held in Detroit from January 11 to 15, 1954
G.E. Holback, S.C. BurridgeAIRCRAFT structural engineers have long been intrigued by the possibility of eliminating the thousands of assembly operations involved in a typical airframe structure—one composed…
Letters to the Editor: The Open Tube
To the Editor. DEAR SIR, I wish to make the following comments on the article entitled ‘The Open Tube’; AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. XXVI, No. 302, April 1954, pp. 102–112, by Dr…
SAE National Aeronautic Meeting: Summaries of Papers Presented at the Meeting Held in New York, April 12–15, 1954
The primary objective in the design of the reversers described and illustrated was to obtain a device inherently safe and reliable, using simple locks and mechanisms. A secondary…
A Continuous Linear Fire Detector: Some Details of the Graviner Firewire Temperature‐sensitive System
EXISTING fire detectors are mainly or the unit type, which is placed at a number of points in the fire zone. Fire will thus be detected when the temperature of one of the…
Carbon Dioxide as a Coolant: Developments in the Application of Liquid Carbon Dioxide to Machining Operations
ATTEMPTS have been made in the past to use liquid carbon dioxide as a cutting coolant, notably in the U.S.A. However, results were not in general very satisfactory, and this may…
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
The Fairey Aviation Company Ltd. announces from 24 Bruton Street, W. 1, that the following changes have been made to the Board of its subsidiary Air Survey Co. Ltd.:
Month in the Patent Office
A set of matched laminated‐wood rotor blades are made with the same shape and weight characteristics, laminations located at corresponding positions in the respective blades being…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A device for evacuating an occupant seated in a cockpit of an aircraft comprising, in combination, a backed scat downwardly tiltable around a transverse axis located in front of…
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- Prof Phil Webb