Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 29 Issue 5

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

Defence and the Industry

SO much has already been said and written on the recent White Paper on Defence that it is with some hesitation that we ourselves turn to this subject. However, as the future…

Thermal Stresses in Disks of Constant Thickness

J.F. Norbury

TURBINE disks are subject to stresses due to two causes; the inertia effects of rotation, and the radial variation of temperature across the disk. Elastic stresses due to each of…

Fatigue of Metals: A letter to the Editor arising out of correspondence on the International Conference on the subject last year

To the Editor. DEAR SIR: I am most happy to take advantage of your suggestion that 1 write a letter summarizing my impressions of the papers presented at the New York meeting on…

Conference on Bonded Aircraft Structures: Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference organized by Aero Research Ltd., at Cambridge, on March 31‐April 5, 1957

The history of SAAB's development of adhesive bonded aircraft structures is briefly commented upon. The lecture deals mainly with Redux bonding of aluminium alloys, and the many…

Helicopter Longitudinal Stability: Some Contributions to Existing Theory

P.R. Payne

A NUMBER of approaches to the calculation of rotor downwash have already been discussed. Broadly spsaking, the methods of Castles and DeLeeuw and Squire and Mangler are the same…

Physical Society Exhibition: Brief Details of Exhibits at the 1957 Exhibition

THIS year's exhibition was held in the Horticultural Halls on March 25–28. As always there was much to interest the air‐craft engineer. It is only to be regretted that more space…

S.A.E. Annual Meeting: Summaries of the Papers Presented to the Meeting Held in Detroit, January 14–18, 1957

Three broad phases in development may be distinguished: aircraft needs, aircraft design, and aircraft operation.

Aircraft Hydraulic Equipment: A Brief Note on the Work of the Aircraft Division of Automotive Products Company Limited

INCREASING use of fully powered controls has placed emphasis on aircraft hydraulic equipment, and the design and manufacture of such equipment has become a very specialized branch…

The Library Shelf

The publication of Vol. II of Engineering Dynamics under the joint authorship of Professors Biezeno and Grammel will be warmly welcomed by all those who are engaged on the…

Automatic Ultrasonic Inspection: A New Range of Equipment for the Mechanized Examination of Materials and Components

INTEREST in ultrasonic methods of flaw detection has been increasing for some years, and a number of firms have been producing equip‐for the purpose. This equipment has usually…

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

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