Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 28 Issue 4

Technical Education

MANY months of discussion about ways of making good the scarcity of technologists in all the engineering industries, and in the aircraft industry more than most, have culminated…

Performance Criteria of Gas‐Turbine Combustion Chambers: A Method of Comparison and Selection for the Designer

D.B. Spalding

The paper is mainly concerned with how the gas‐turbine designer can choose the best design of liquid or gaseous fuel combustion chamber for his purpose. In the method proposed…

The Electronic Digital Computer in Aircraft Structural Analysis: The Programming of the Argyris Matrix Formulation of Structural Theory for an Electronic Digital Computer

P.M. Hunt

This paper describes the use of preset and programme parameters with the matrix interpretive scheme (which was considered in Part I) for the preparation of general purpose…

Aeroelastic Problems of Low Aspect Ratio Wings: Part III. Aerodynamic Forces on an Oscillating Delta Wing

J. Leyds

For a delta wing it is not sufficient to consider spanwise bending and chordwise rotation only. Chordwise bending must be added. It is therefore necessary to calculate the…

Induced Aerodynamics of Helicopters: Part III

P.R. Payne

HELICOPTER performance methods currently in use fall into two main groups. The smallest is typified by Refs. and, and evaluates performance by considering the forces acting on…

International Conference on Fatigue in Aircraft Structures: Summaries of the Papers Presented at Columbia University, New York on, January 30, 31 and February 1, 1956

SEVENTEEN papers were presented during the three days of the conference on a variety of topics affecting fatigue in aircraft structures. The conference was organized under the…

The Library Shelf

J.M., A. Mc C., J.E.D.

The cardinal purpose of mathematical analysis is to establish the validity of the concepts, theorems and artifices which comprise the mathematical machine, and to prescribe the…

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…

Research and Test Apparatus

The development of high performance gas turbine engines for future generations of civil airliners and military aircraft is becoming increasingly diflicult because of the severe…

Month in the Patent Office

The inner wall 10 of a gas‐turbine diffuser is formed with two rows of circumferential slots 40, 42 whereby, due to the increasing static pressure in the downstream direction, gas…

U.S. Patent Specifications

An axial flow turbojet engine in which the mean direction of flow of working fluid past any moving blade is substantially free from radial components comprising a casing; an air…