Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 30 Issue 9

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

Power Plant Progress

AS usual this September issue is timed to appear on the occasion of the S.B.A.C. Display at Farnborough, and as usual we publish in it a specially commissioned article which is…

British Rocket and Ramjet Engines: A Survey of Work to Date in This Important Field

A.D. Baxter, S.W. Greenwood

ROCKET and ramjet engines have not the universal application that gas turbines command and possibly on this account they have not had, until recent years, the development effort…

Ultrasonic Resonance Testing adhesives of Glued Metal Joints: Possibilities of Assessing the Quality of Adhesive Bonded Structures

J. Schijve

NON‐DESTRUCTIVE testing of glued metal joints for voids in the glue line may be done by vibration tests. The response to an excitation will be different for adhesive joints with…

Some Notes on Pressure‐Cabin Design: Consideration of Detail Design in the Light of Recently Acquired Knowledge

P.B. Walker

IN Los Angeles in June 1955 the writer read a paper on fatigue of pressure cabins to the Anglo‐American Conference, and a British version of this paper was published in Aircraft…

Ground Loads on Aircraft Undercarriages at Touch‐down: Assessment of Loads for the Purpose of Undercarriage Design

J.W. Blinkhorn

THE most severe ground loads to which an aircraft undercarriage is subjected when landing usually occur during the fraction of a second following the instant of touch‐down…

The Library Shelf

The title of this book is somewhat misleading, for in addition to the elementary theory of compressible fluid flow, the authors have devoted several chapters to various aspects of…

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…

New Materials

Two types of Pyroceram, a new material developed by the Corning Glass Company are now in commercial production.

Auxiliary Equipment

A liquid cooling unit that can accommodate a variety of fluids in airborne or ground applications has been developed by The Garrett Corporation's AiResearch Manufacturing…

Research and Test Apparatus

Dynamic Simulator Rig for SC.1 A simulator has been designed and built by Short Brothers & Harland Limited for use in the development of the SC.1 VTOL research aircraft.

Tools for the Workshop

Aylesbury Turned Parts (True Screws) Ltd., Britannia Street, Aylesbury, Bucks, are U.K. agents for the range of Helios vernier calipers made by Schneider & Kern. These can be read…

Month in the Patent Office

A fabric lacing edge, more particularly for securing together the structural fabric parts of a non‐rigid airship, but applicable to other purposes, comprises a folded‐over hem 7…

U.S. Patent Specifications September 1958

In a combustion system for burning fluid fuel in a gaseous stream of combustion‐supporting medium, ducting immersed in the said stream and comprising first and second duct…

German Patent Abridgements

Air to air rocket projectiles 4 are hung up under the wings 3 of the fighter 2. During flight these projectiles are used for additional drive getting their fuel from the…

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