Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 29 Issue 4

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

Crystal Gazing

SOME weeks ago we attended a reception held to announce details of the third Glass Age Development Committee scheme, a city‐centre terminal in London for aircraft capable of…

The Optimum Design of Long‐Range Aircraft: An Examination of the Best Values of Aspect Ratio Wing Loading and Fuel Load Ratio for Different Conditions

Karl L. Sanders

IN the present paper an attempt has been made to determine the optimum aspect ratio, wing loading and fuel load ratio under certain specified design conditions. Aeroplanes with…

Helicopter Rotor Blade Flapping and Bending: The Determination of the Higher Harmonics of Rotor Blade Flapping and Bending

J.P. Jones

VARIOUS techniques have been described for calculating the stresses in rotor blades, but the early methods suffered from the disadvantage that the aerodynamic forces produced by…

Titanium in the Aircraft Industry: Proceedings of a Conference Organized by Imperial Chemical Industries Limited and Held in London on February 15, 1957

TITANIUM is a new metal but not a rare one. It is new in the sense that although its existence has been known since 1791, it is only within the last decade that it has become a…

Perturbations of a Body in an Exponential Atmosphere: A Solution of the Equation arising in the case of Small Angular Displacements

H.G. Cuming

THE purpose of this note is to derive an analytic solution to the second order linear differential equation whose coefficients vary exponentially with time. Such equations arise…

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

Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd., Chelmsford, Essex, have for more than two years been in quantity production with an Airborne ‘Doppler’ Navigator which has been supplied to…

New Materials

Industrial Mouldings (Warwick) Ltd. have evolved a process, I.M. Plastichrome, whereby plastic mouldings can be chromium plated.

Month in the Patent Office

These abstracts of British Patent Specifications are condensed, by permission, from the official specifications. Copies of the full specifications are obtainable from the Patent…

U.S. Patent Specifications

These details and drawings of patents granted in the United States are taken, by permission of the Department of Commerce, from the ‘Official Gazette of the United States Patent…

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