Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 30 Issue 1
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First Ever¡?
WE write at a time when the news of the first successes of the long‐range Bristol Britannia is coming in. B.O.A.C.'s inaugural non‐stop flight from London to New York under…
Ground Performance at Take‐off and Landing: A Chart for the Estimation of either Unstick or Landing Roll Distance
D.J. KettleA simple chart is presented for the rapid evaluation of either unstick or landing roll distance. The method is incomplete in that it docs not deal with the airborne phase of…
A Theoretical Analysis of the Airborne Path during Take‐off: A Linear Method for Performance Estimation
W.R. BuckinghamThe solution of the problem of estimating the take‐off distance to a height of 50 feet has to a certain extent been limited by the absence of a theoretical analysis of the…
Ultra‐Violet and White Lighting for Aircraft Instruments: A Cockpit Lighting System using 4‐watt 6‐inch Fluorescent Lamps
P. ChittendenTHE aircraft industry is always trying to improve cockpit lighting, and over the years many different arrangements of tungsten filament lamp have been used. Red lighting has long…
Establishment of Lift on an Aerofoil with a Jet Flap: A Theoretical Note Relating to a Wing with Trailing Edge Jet with Extension to Cover Wings of Finite Span
R. Hirsch, Ingr.Dr.IN the two‐dimensional case the configuration shows a wake which forms a discontinuity in the flow, being bounded by contact vortices δγi1 and δγi2 which have as resultant a…
Mathematical Services at Farnborough: The Work of the Mathematical Services Department of the Royal Aircraft Establishment
THE Mathematical Services Department was formed nearly ten years ago to provide a mathematical and computational service for the Establishment. Its computing equipment now…
The Library Shelf
Memories are notoriously fickle and it is always difficult to remember precisely when this or that incident occurred. This book is designed to provide the necessary information…
Tools for the Workshop
New power guillotines are announced by F. J. Edwards Ltd., 359–361 Euston Road, London, N.W.1.
New Materials
The Standard Pressed Steel Co., of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, have introduced a range of aircraft bolts made from a 5 per cent chromium hot worked die steel called Vascojet 1000…
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
A device for steering an aircraft having a jet propulsion nozzle is characterized by a tubular member 4 having a longitudinal slot 2, mounted at the nozzle outlet and rotable…
U.S. Patent Specifications
The combination with an engine combustion chamber of annual form having inner and outer peripheral walls, and an entrance at one end, of an annular arrangement of equispaced fuel…
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- Prof Phil Webb