Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 33 Issue 8

Metropolitan Heliport

ALTHOUGH the armed forces have been quick to seize upon the opportunities offered by the versatile rotary‐wing aircraft, their widespread use for civil air transport has still to…

Turbine Powered Transport Aircraft in the U.S.S.R.: A Survey of Current Russian Turbine Engines and Airliners, Based Primarily on Russian Sources of Information

D.J. Ritchie

THIS paper is not intended to provide any startling revelations of Soviet technology but is a detailed survey and analysis of contemporary developments in Soviet turbine powered…

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

In the two short sections which close Chapter VII, an improved ring programme is developed which allows i.a. for the application of externally applied moments on the ring vertices…

Flow Numbers and Their Summation: Development of the Concept of a Component Flow Number Applicable to Gas Turbine Fuel Systems

W.A. Woods

In this article the concept of a component flow number is developed and for a particular example good agreement is shown with an empirical expression. An expression is derived…

The Library Shelf

This is the second volume of a scries sponsored by the American Rocket Society under the general title of Progress in Astronautics and Rocketry. The object appears to be…

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

A new multi‐socket indicator strip, ideal for use with computers and illuminated readout devices, has been introduced by the Special Products Division of Thorn Electrical…

Research and Test Apparatus

Known as Small Rocket Lift Device (SRLD), a rocket belt worn by one man has been successfully demonstrated by Bell Acrosystems Company and the U.S. Army Transportation Research…

British Patent Abridgements

The surface of a very high speed aircraft is cooled by a liquid, e.g. a fuel, which flows rearwardly there‐over and enters the intake of one or more gas turbine or ram jet engines…