Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 28 Issue 8

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

The Transport Crystal

ONCE again the future of British civil transport aircraft is a topic of the moment. At the annual luncheon of the Air Registration Board both LORD BRABAZON and Mr G. R. EDWARDS…

Some Design Considerations for a Hydraulic Servo: A Treatment of a Type in which the two‐stage Control Valve has a Flapper‐Nozzle Valve as its First Stage

J.M. Nightingale

PROMINENT among hydraulic servos today are those being developed in the aeronautical field, both for conventional aircraft and for guided missiles. In general these applications…

Pressure Distribution and Aerodynamic Properties of High‐Speed Aircraft: A Method for Determining the Main Aerodynamic Properties of High‐Speed Aeroplanes

Svetopolk Pivko

Using the results of earlier investigations, a method for determination of the velocity or pressure distribution and the aerodynamic properties of a low‐aspect‐ratio swept wing…

Flight Loads During Combat Training: An Experimental Determination using V‐g Recorders of Manoeuvres in Mustang Aircraft of the R.A.A.F.

Queenie Baum

In view of the comparative lack of information available on the magnitude of loads occurring on aircraft used for combat training, V‐g recorders were fitted to several Mustang…

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

It is possible to assess the plastic strain associated with yielding under a two‐dimensional stress system X, Y of a disk, by accepting the shear strain energy as the criterion of…

Probe Measurements in Three‐Dimensional Flow: A Comparative Survey of Different Types of Instrument

F.A.L. Winternitz

A survey is made of the instruments and methods used to measure total and static pressure and direction in three‐dimensional flow. Comparative tests in a towing tank of two…

Gas Flow and Units: A Method of Simplifying Gas Flow Equations

V.D. Naylor

WHEN dealing with questions on gas flow, a certain amount of visual simplification in the resulting equations is produced by using the reservoir conditions as our unitary system.

S.A.E. National Aeronautic Meeting: Summaries of Papers Presented to the Meeting held on April 9–12, 1956

This general paper deals mainly with the military aspect of some of the major problems resulting from turbine stall. Four which are highlighted are the increase in weapon system…

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…

Month in the Patent Office

In a boundary layer control system for applying different degrees of suction to openings 11, 12, 13, 14 at different spanwise locations along a wing, the respective suction…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aircraft of the rotary wing type, a suspension rig, a rotatable wing assembly comprising a plurality of blades of aerofoil cross‐section rotatably mounted on said suspension…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb