Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 31 Issue 11

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

The New Set‐Up

ON October 14, the Prime Minister announced his new Cabinet. The changes which affect the aircraft industry involve the creation of a Ministry of Aviation and the appointment of a…

The Control and Stability of Hypersonic Aircraft: An Analysis of the Criteria associated with Hypersonic Flight above the Stratosphere

T.R.F. Nonweiler

THERE have been various suggestions that the return of man from his trips of exploration into space may best be effected by glider. The design of such an unusual form of aircraft…

Dynamics of a Rotor Controlled by Aerodynamic Servo Flaps: Theory and Comparison with Available Test Data

P.R. Payne

A theory is developed to describe the dynamic behaviour, control angles to trim and stability derivatives of an aerodynamic servo‐controlled rotor. The analysis is restricted to…

S.A.E. Annual Meeting—2: Summaries of a Selection of the Papers Presented in New York, N.Y., U.S.A., on March 31–April 3, 1959

Describes a technique, currently used at General Motors, which contains some of the elements of operations research and has effected important reductions in costs. The technique…

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Machine Tool Automation: A Description of the Numerical Tool Control System Developed by the Autonetics Division of North American Aviation, Inc.

L.S. Peck

THE advent of the digital computer enables engineering designers to replace manual calculation by accurate high speed computation. The combination of the digital computer and a…

The Library Shelf: Space Flight and Missiles

J.C.

Stranded on a desert island or in a hospital bed with only one book to read, the victim can do far worse than have a good dictionary on his favourite subject. You flick over the…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this h.ading 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

In an aircraft, which may be a guided missile, the wings 1 are folded about a common fore‐and‐aft axis 2 in the fuselage in order that the aircraft or missile may be housed within…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In combination in a cooled turbine blade, a sheet metal hollow stem means having a plurality of splines formed therein defining a plurality of chordwise spaced flutes between said…

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