Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 27 Issue 9
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An International JournalTable of contents
Plus Ça Change
AT the outset of his article on high‐lift aids in this issue MR NONWEILER recalls that so long ago as 1937 we expressed bewilderment at the number and variety of such devices…
Flaps, Slots and Other High Lift Aids: Some Reflections on Various Devices Adopted to Increase Maximum Lift
T.R. NonweilerWRITING an introduction to an article by Mr S. B. Gates on Trailing‐Edge Flaps, which appeared in these columns in 1937, the Editor felt constrained to admit his bewilderment over…
Stress Analysis of Triangular Cantilever Plates: A Theoretical Investigation using the Inextensional Theory for Thin Plates
E.H. Mansfield, P.W. KleemanThe stress distribution in triangular cantilever plates under a uniform normal load and under a tip load is investigated theoretically. Numerical solutions are presented for…
High Temperature Power Plant Materials: Application of High Temperature Materials to Aircraft Power Plants In The Temperature Range of 1,200–1,400 deg. F.
Alan LevyTHE use of metals at temperatures in excess of 1,200 deg. F. and up to temperatures in the vicinity of their melting points is a challenging and fascinating portion of the fight…
A Practical Method of Fatigue Stress Analysis: A Method Derived from Published Results of Fatigue Tests for Application to Problems of Design
W.H. BurdonThe standard diagram is described, giving the relationship between R and S for constant value of N. The line of infinite endurance is obtained, and the relationship of N and S is…
Fundamentals of an Electronic Digital Computer: An Explanatory Introduction for Engineers of the Principles of Operation of a Computer
W.D. WorthyThis article describes the fundamental principles of an electronic digital computer with special reference to a simple serial machine which is taken for illustration. Short…
The Library Shelf
When an author seeks to instruct in authorship, he cannot complain if his own works are judged by the standards he advocates. By his own standards Mr Baker has written a very good…
Structural Features of The Fokker Friendship: Design Details Contributing to Efficient Production and Economical Operation
R.J. SchliekelmannAT Schiphol Airport the first Dutch airliner to be built since the war is nearing completion. The Royal Netherlands Aircraft Company Fokker, which was responsible for a large…
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
A small, lightweight jet temperature indicator which, it is claimed, has a clearer scale than the older types of instrument has been designed by Smiths Aircraft Instruments Ltd…
Tools for the Workshop
The General Electric Co. Ltd. has designed a flame‐and‐waterproof terminal distribution box for employment where complex connexions and apparatus are used in wiring installations…
Month in the Patent Office
A landing gear consists of a pair of longitudinal skid members 3,3a mounted for sideways lowering and retraction, and arranged, in the retracted position, to form fairings closing…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A jet propulsion engine comprising an assembly including a multi‐stage high‐pressure air compressor, a combustion chamber, a multi‐stage gas turbine and an exhaust system arranged…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb