Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 31 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Variations on a Theme
THE new year has continued to provide news a little more encouraging to the aircraft industry than was current during its predecessor. Two particularly welcome items concern Short…
The Analysis of Fuselages of Arbitrary Cross‐section and Taper
J.H. Argyris, S. KelseyA DSIR Sponsored Research Programme on the Development and Application of the Matrix Force Method and the Digital Computer. This work presents a rational method for the structural…
Complex Stress Creep Relaxation of Metallic Alloys at Elevated Temperatures: An Investigation Covering an Aluminium and a Magnesium Alloy
A.E. Johnson, J. Henderson, V.D. MathurThe nature of the relation between complex stress creep under conditions of relaxation and complex stress creep under conditions of steady stress was investigated. The required…
A Proof by Induction of the Henderson‐Bickley Ring Formula
L.G. BoothHENDERSON and Bickley showed in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING for December 19551 that the degree of statical indeterminacy of a skeletal structure may be determined from the ring number of…
The New A.R.A. Supersonic Wind Tunnel: Details of the Facility Recently Commissioned at Bedford
THE large transonic wind tunnel of the Aircraft Research Association Ltd, at Bedford was described in an article in the May 1956 issue of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING. The 2 ft. 6 in. × 2…
S.A.E. Annual Meeting: Summaries of a Selection of the Papers Presented in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., on January 12–16, 1959
The Civil Aeronautics Board is the government agency charged with the investigation of all civil aircraft accidents in the United States whether foreign or U.S. aircraft are…
The Library Shelf
The contents of this French contribution to the limited literature on flight testing is summarized below. Volume I deals with fundamental measurements, and is developed as a…
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 new drafting machine, the Simplon Mark II, has been introduced by Dargue Bros. Ltd., New Simplon Works, Halifax, Yorks. It is of the straight‐edge type and incorporates a number…
New Materials
A number of new applications for recently deve‐loped materials were found in the balloon The Small World, and its gondola.
Auxiliary Equipment
Converters giving higher a.c. or d.c. voltages from 6, 12, 24 or 28 V d.c. supplies are manufactured by Transipack, 29 Burnt Ash Hill, London, S.E.12. These are sealed…
Month in the Patent Office
In a helicopter having a jet engine attached to the tip of each rotor blade, each engine comprising a combustion chamber into which liquid fuel is injected, ignition is effected…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In a receiving aircraft, an elongated rigid probe directed forwardly from the receiving aircraft substantially in the line of flight and terminating in a tip for coupling within a…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb