Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 30 Issue 12
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An International JournalTable of contents
Equipment for Safety
THIS is the time of year when airports are as often as not concealed from the approaching pilot by low cloud and mist, when not enveloped in dense banks of fog. Services are…
Effects of Local Loadings on Pressurized Circular Cylindrical Shells: An Analysis of Stresses and Deflexions for Four Types of Loading
Bertram KleinAn analysis is carried out to determine the deflexions and stresses in the region of a highly localized loaded area of a circular cylindrical shell initially subjected to…
Matrix Methods for Framework Analysis: The Analysis of Pin‐Jointed, Redundant Frameworks by Matrix Methods Using an Electronic Computer
H. WatsonThe strain energy method for the analysis of pin‐jointed redundant frameworks is expressed in matrix form suitable for solution on electronic computers. This is illustrated by…
The Rolls‐Royce High Altitude Test Facility: A Description of the Large New Plant at Derby
THE High Altitude Test Plant recently put into commission by Rolls‐Royce Ltd. at Derby is the only privately owned engine test facility of its magnitude outside the U.S.A., and as…
Aeronautical Inspection Directorate Laboratories
THE initials A.I.D. are familiar throughout the aircraft industry, and indeed outside it, but many people do not know what they stand for, and still more have only a hazy idea of…
Reinforced Plastics Conference: Summaries of Some of the Papers and Points from the Discussions
THIS year's reinforced plastics conference at Brighton was the subject of our leading article in the November issue. We give below brief summaries of the papers most likely to be…
Correspondence: The Case for Pneumatics — Kinetic Heating of Thin Wings
To the Editor, DEAR SIR, So my friend, Mr Wotton, has written an article (in your July issue) putting the case for pneumatics! A very good one too. Plenty of new ideas to add fuel…
The Double Skin Pressure Cabin
A.B. KnightWITH the advent of honeycomb construction, double skin aircraft surface structures have also been introduced, mainly for control and wing surfaces. The cylindrical and voluminous…
The Library Shelf
In his preface the author states that ‘this text was prepared to give in a concise and orderly manner the principles of vibration analysis that may be used to handle the usual…
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…
Tools for the Workshop
Herbert Terry & Sons Ltd., Redditch, have introduced a screwdriver for worm type hose clips. The screwdriver blade is centred on to the screw head by a sleeve.
Research and Test Apparatus
A new‐type environmental test chamber with special capabilities for the temperature testing of optical missile guidance systems has been developed by Aerophysics Development…
Auxiliary Equipment
A miniature gas turbine that delivers cither 5 or 10 h.p. has been announced by Propulsion Research Corporation, Santa Monica, California, a subsidiary of Curtiss‐Wright…
New Materials
The latest addition to the Nimonic series of high temperature nickel alloys is Nimonic 105. This new alloy is a development of Nimonic 100, and is given a minimum life to rupture…
Month in the Patent Office
A probe 1 having a static pressure detecting point 1a is mounted on a transonic aircraft fin 4 in a rearwardly directed position in order that the point 1a is situated in an…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In jet propulsion involving the combustion of nitromethane to generate gas to form the jet, the improvement which comprises igniting the nitromethane by spontaneously combusting…
German Patent Abridgements
This aeroplane may be used as helicopter (FIG. 1) or as fixed wing aeroplane. When used as helicopter the torque of the airscrew 1 is compensated by the wings 4, 5 revolving in…
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- Prof Phil Webb