Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 31 Issue 6

Strapline:

An International Journal
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Table of contents

Small Beginnings

THE long‐awaited statement on the Government's plans for research in outer space was generally greeted as laying the foundations of a logically thought out, if modest, programme…

An Approximation to the Influence Function for Plate‐like Wings: A General Solution for Small Deflexions

R.D. Milne

A general solution for the small deflexions of thin plates of slowly varying thickness under lateral loading in the form of an influence function is briefly presented. It is known…

A Theoretical Approach to the Conversion Stage of Tilting Rotor Convertiplanes: An Approximate Method Giving Some Preliminary Results

P.F. Sutherby

RECENT developments in the field of convertible aircraft have shown the practicability of numerous methods of achieving vertical take‐off, combined with forward flight that is…

The Analysis of Fuselages of Arbitrary Cross‐section and Taper: A DSIR Sponsored Research Programme on the Development and Application of the Matrix Force Method and the Digital Computer

J.H. Argyris, S. Kelsey

Following the self‐equilibrating stress systems developed for the single‐cell fuselage, further stress systems are given for the fuselage with a double‐cell cross‐section. These…

Vacuum Melting Steel and Titanium: Extensive New Facilities at the Works of Jessop‐Saville Ltd.

VACUUM melting techniques have become necessary to deal with titanium and other metals which have great affinity for oxygen and other atmospheric gases when heated above certain…

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…

The Library Shelf

J.C., A.D.Y., T.H.

In the preface it is stated that a need exists for a ‘comprehensive treatment of the subject that will present fundamentals in broad perspective but without emphasis on any one…

Month in the Patent Office

A blade of aerofoil section, for example a blade for a rotary wing aircraft or an aircraft propeller blade, is formed of a plurality of laminations 14 of longitudinally‐extending…

U.S. Patent Specifications

A monoplane aircraft comprising, in combination, a fuselage, wings fixed on said fuselage, horizontal tail‐surfaces mounted aft on said fuselage at a level higher than that of…

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