Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 27 Issue 8
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An International JournalTable of contents
Contrasting Policies
THE French aero show has two features which make it unique—it is international and it takes place biennially. If memory serves aright it has been so characterized for a great many…
XXIe Salon de l'Aéronautique: A Report on the more Interesting Items shown at Le Bourget June 10–19, 1955
THIS year's Paris Salon was conspicuously successful, and notably justified the adherence to the international biennial show formula. The permanent building was extended with two…
Empirical Equations for Specific Heat: Expressions for Air and the Products of Combustion of a Hydrocarbon Fuel over the Operating Range of Gas Turbines and am‐Jets
W.R. ThomsonTHE estimation of the performance of the components of gas turbine plants requires specific heat data of four‐figure accuracy, particularly where small differences in the…
A Centrifuge for Research on Acceleration Effects: Some Particulars of the Installation Recently Completed at the R.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine
IN order to carry out medical research into the effects on the human body of violent acceleration and deceleration, the R.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine has recently…
A Swept Cantilever Box Beam with Two Spars and Skew Ribs: An Article based on a Department of Aircraft Design thesis prepared by the Author while studying at the College of Aeronautics
B.R. NotonThe notation and equation numbers in the text are those of Hemp's report.
SAE Golden Anniversary Aeronautic Meeting: Summaries of the Papers presented to the Meeting Held in New York, April 18–21, 1955
The characteristics and physical structure of the jet stream are described. The relationship of the jet stream to the general circulation in the atmosphere is illustrated by…
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…
Auxiliary Equipment
The Solar Mars gas turbine unit was recently demonstrated in operation as a fire pump and as a ground power unit for starting jet engines in aircraft. A description of a Mars…
Tools for the Workshop
The interior lighting in the new B.O.A.C. hangars at London Airport is automatically controlled by a comprehensive photoelectric system installed by Rashleigh Phipps and Co. Ltd.…
Trade Announcements
A monthly feature giving news of recent Government and professional appointments, industrial developments and business changes, etc.. Changes in the organization of the Aircraft…
Month in the Patent Office
A jet nozzle consists of a conical portion which discharges through a rectangular opening formed by an upper plate 2b, side plates 2d, and a semi‐cylindrical lower plate 2e, the…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In a gas turbine power plant, a plurality of substantially parallel flame tubes, an annular duct for said tubes, and a turbine inlet nozzle ring concentric to the duct, in…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb