Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 28 Issue 10

The Annual Event

ONCE again Farnborough is over, well over by the time this issue appears, yet inevitably the mind returns to it to take stock. This year was notable for the appalling weather…

Turbine Disks for Jet Propulsion Units: An Account of Work of the Disk Panel of the Ministry of Supply, Gas Turbine Collaboration Committee, during the years 1941–1949

A.E. Johnson

In the first two parts of this paper attention has been directed to determination of the stresses in a disk as dependent upon elastic and plastic strain, including creep effects…

Some New Materials for Missile and Power‐plant Applications: A Paper Presented at the Twenty‐fifth Anniversary Annual Meeting of the American Rocket Society, Chicago, Illinois, November 14–18, 1955

A.V. Levy

THE missile and power‐plant designers of today are continually in need of materials to withstand higher loads and higher operating temperatures. The development of the high‐speed…

Strut Interference on an Aerofoil: A Theoretical Analysis of a Common Wind‐Tunnel Problem

J. Lockwood Taylor

IT is fairly standard practice to correct wind‐tunnel results for a model or aerofoil by taking measurements of lift, etc., with and without dummy supports fitted, the correction…

The Library Shelf

A.D.Y., H.B.H., D.B.S., S.J.P.

The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn celebrated in 1955 its centenary and as part of the celebrations a Conference on High Speed Aeronautics was organized. In this book are…

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

Large p.v.c. aprons, each measuring 120 × 30 ft. and weighing nearly half a ton, have recently been made for the Ministry of Supply for lining test areas where petrol tanks of up…

Research and Test Apparatus

Two simple instruments for obtaining transient response from the frequency response in a vibrating system have been made available by Costain‐John Brown Ltd., Instrumentation…

Trade Announcements

A new department has been formed by Bristol Aircraft Limited to design, plan, and co‐ordinate work on the interior furnishing of Britannia airliners. Known as the Britannia…

New Materials

Seven major European companies have been licensed to use the Elastomer process in the production of vinyl foam.

Month in the Patent Office

An aircraft consists of an annular tunnel‐shaped wing with a propulsion plant arranged to produce a thrust along or evenly balanced about the axis of the wing, together with…

U.S. Patent Specifications

An aircraft comprising a fuselage of substantially streamline shape, a planing section movable at will from a retracted position in which it is housed within said fuselage to a…