Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 30 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Difficult Choice
AFTER protracted discussion the choice for the B.E.A. jet airliner has fallen on the de Havilland 121. The main reaction to this decision is that it marks a return to the…
Open Cycle Refrigeration: The Bootstrap Refrigerator
E.J. GabbayTHE bootstrap scheme of refrigeration is an open cycle system resembling a turbo‐jet engine in its mode of working, but the overall heat energy changes occur in a reversed sense.
Developments in Steel and Titanium
WILLIAM Jessop & Sons Ltd., Brightside Works, Sheffield, have in recent years concentrated on the manufacture and marketing of steel and other special metals to particular…
Jet Drag of Wings with Jet Flaps: An Examination of Stratford's Theory of Jet Drag
P.R. PayneAN analysis of the mechanism of jet drag is given by Stratford, it being suggested that jet drag is zero if the density velocity products of the free‐stream and jet are equal…
Some Effects of Kinetic Heating on the Stiffness of Thin Wings‐II: Analysis of Flexural and Torsional Stiffnesses for Large Deformations of Thin Solid Wings
S.L. Kochanski, J.H. ArgyrisThe Third Power Approximation introduced in the previous section is here applied to determine the stiffness characteristics of symmetrical double‐wedge wings subjected to large…
Rotary Wing Papers at the I.A.S. Annual Meeting: Some Comments on the Proceedings on Rotorcraft at the Twenty‐sixth Annual Meeting
P.R. PayneTHE twenty‐sixth annual meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences was held, as usual, in the Sheraton‐Astor Hotel, New York. The papers delivered during the week covered…
Trade Announcements
A conference on noise, dealing particularly with noise in industry, has been organized by the British Occupational Hygiene Society. It will be held in London on Tuesday, April 1…
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
A fully‐transistorized digital control computer has been developed by Ramo‐Wooldridge Corporation, Los Angeles, for the general automation of both production and engineering…
New Materials
Teramel is the name given to a new synthetic‐enamelled winding wire which British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd. have recently developed to solve problems set by a variety of…
Month in the Patent Office
A ram jet comprising in the duct wall upstream of the heat receiving zone slot like passages inclined at an acute angle to the duct wall for bleeding off a layer of air next the…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In combination with a by‐pass gas turbine engine comprising a low‐pressure compressor stage, a high‐pressure stage connected with the outlet of said low‐pressure compressor stage…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb