Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 33 Issue 7

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

Paris in Retrospect

NO visitor to the Twenty‐fourth International Air Show at Le Bourget would deny that the two most spectacular exhibits were provided by the United States of America. Small and…

Design Problems of Ballistic Missile Tank Structures: Simplified Analysis of the Effects of Axial Compression and Internal Pressure on Structural Stability

D.S. Houghton, D.J. Johns

The in‐flight design problems of ballistic missile fuel tank structures are examined and simplified analyses are presented.

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

The series of illustrations to the elimination procedures is concluded with two examples in which the various techniques are again examined critically. The first application…

Recording Flight Parameters for Routine Maintenance: Design Philosophy of the MIDAS Range of Magnetic Tape Flight Recorders

THE MIDAS comprehensive routine flight data recording system has been developed from equipment used primarily for aircraft research and testing programmes. Almost every operating…

XXIVe Salon International de I'Aéronautique au Bourget: An Illustrated Resume of a Selection of the Exhibits Displayed at the 1961 Paris Air Show

ALTHOUGH it would be churlish to deny that, once again, the United States provided the largest and perhaps, technically speaking, the most interesting part of the International…

The Library Shelf

In recent times technology has been advancing at an unprecedented pace and there has been an equally unprecedented demand to learn about it at all levels from the popular to 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…

Research and Test Apparatus

A pilot's ability to control a high performance aircraft in bad flying conditions can be tested by a new machine built for the Ministry of Aviation by the Precision Engineering…

Tools for the Workshop

This machine is specially designed and developed to take advantage of the accuracy available using the A.E.I. Co‐ordinate Setting System operated by punched cards or manually by…

Aviation Electronics

The 24‐modulc EMIAC II analogue computer installation supplied to Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. in 1959 is to be supplemented by a further 24 modules—making 48…

British Patent Abridgements

An aircraft has a lifting surface with a slotted formation in the leading edge, and means for discharging compressed air forwardly through the formation and for varying 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