Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 33 Issue 6

Demonstrating the Deterrent

LAST month we accepted the opportunity of visiting the Royal Air Force to witness the execution of Exercise ‘Mayflight’. This was designed to test as many aspects as possible of…

Aircraft Refrigeration Systems: Cooling Problems, Advantages of Air and Vapour Cycle Units and Proposed Systems for a Supersonic Transport

D.J. Leech

REFRIGERATION in aeroplanes does not, so far, involve the use of any techniques which have not already been established and used in other fields. These techniques must be…

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

As a first example of the application of the cut‐out procedure to fuselage problems and the selection of appropriate cut systems, the elimination of a complete ring is discussed…

British Aircraft Corporation 111: Brief Details of the New Short‐Range Turbojet Airliner

IT was announced on May 9 that British United Airways had placed an order for ten B.A.C. 111 short haul jet airliners with an option on a further five.

Precision Guidance Equipment: Details of the Instrument Wing of the Guided Weapons Division of English Electric

ON May 3, 1961, we accepted an opportunity to visit the new Instrument Wing of English Electric's Guided Weapons Division at Stevenage in Hertfordshire. This £1 million facility…

The Library Shelf

B.S.O., A.R.C., A.D.Y.

Vol. XVII, No. 2, or this scries begins with the 1958 William M. Murray Lecture on ‘Mechanics applied to Creep Testing’ by N. J. Hoff. The lecture surveys the factors making the…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Technical Reports and Translations of the United States…

Auxiliary Equipment

Edwards High Vacuum Ltd., Crawley, Sussex, have been appointed sole United Kingdom and British Commonwealth agents for the ‘Reciprotor’ combined vacuum/pressure pump manufactured…

Research and Test Apparatus

The results of an experiment are frequently more tedious to interpret than the experiment is to conduct. Faced with a growing ‘result analysis’ problem—as are many scientists…

Aviation Electronics

The Vanguard range of transformers has recently been announced by the Small Transformer Division of Grcsham Transformers Ltd., Hanworth Trading Estate, Feltham, Middlesex, and was…

Tools for the Workshop

A major development in the automatic welding field has been announced by Palmer Aero Products Ltd. with the development of a unique Precision Orbital Welding Method which, for the…