Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 34 Issue 11
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An International JournalTable of contents
The Anglo‐French Supersonic Transport
DURING the latter part of October, Mr George Edwards, the Managing Director of British Aircraft Corporation, discussed with General Andr6 Puget, the President of Sud Aviation, the…
Crack Propagation: The Results of a Test Programme Based on a Gust Spectrum with Variable Amplitude Loading
J. Schijve, D. BroekThis paper deals with crack propagation under programme‐fatigue loading; the programme being derived from a gust spectrum. The validity of the Palmgren‐Miner rule for crack…
Lubricants for Engines for Supersonic Aircraft: Background to the Research and Development Programme Being Carried Out By The British Petroleum Co. Ltd.
N.J. HunterMOST of the aircraft engines of the 1900 era were little more than adaptations of the existing reciprocating internal combustion engines used in motor cars, but progressive design…
Trade Announcements
Ministry of Aviation The Minister of Aviation, with the agreement of the Secretary of State for Air, has appointed Air Commodore D. D. Hatficid, C.B.E., A.F.R.Ac.S., to be…
The Grasshopper Helicopter: Brief Details of the Twin‐engine Light Helicopter Being Developed for Rotorcraft Ltd.
L ServotecTHE Grasshopper light helicopter was conceived and designed by Mr J. Shapiro, and pursues the philosophy of providing a low cost, simple rotorcraft possessing the maximum safety…
Thermal Stresses in I‐section Beams: Stress Distributions Due to Arbitrary Temperature Distributions for I‐section Beams or Multicell‐section Beams Built Up from I‐section Units
K.B. AyersThermal stresses due to arbitrary temperature distributions are calculated for beams of I‐section or of multicell sections which can be considered to be built up from I‐section…
Electrochemical Metal Forming.: Details of the Barmax Machine Designed and Developed By Rolls‐Royce and Manufactured Under Licence By Crow, Hamilton and Co. Ltd.
ON October 15, Lord Polwarth, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Scottish Council (Development and Industry), officially opened a new extension to the Barmax Works of…
Overhaul Life Development, and Early Failure Detection of Aircraft Gas Turbines: A Description of the Methods By Which Scheduled and Unscheduled Engine Removals May Be Minimized Based on the Techniques Adopted by Trans‐Canada Airlines for Use with Rolls‐Royce Tyne, Conway and Dart Engines
J.J. EdenInspection of the engine oil pressure filter at regular intervals has been the mainstay of maintenance procedures with respect to declaring an engine unserviceable. The procedure…
Correcting Fatigue Life Inadequacy: Evaluation of the Approximate Area Increase Required to Improve Fatigue Life Based on the Use of Stress‐Cycles and Stress‐Strain Curves
C.R. SmithWHERE service life, cither actual or simulated, has proven to be inadequate, the need for a simple conversion of fatigue cycles to service life is paramount. The task becomes…
Simplified Helicopter Ground Resonance Stability Boundaries: Development of a New Method of Determining Stability Boundaries
H.L. PriceTHE TABLES I, II and II which have to be read in conjunction with figs. 4, 5 and 6, show the structure of each class of stability boundary regarded as a function of the parameter…
Cooling Systems Laboratory: Brief Details of the New Facility in Use at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
ON October 18, the Minister of Aviation, the Rt. Hon. Julian Amery, M.P., officially opened a new cooling systems laboratory at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. This…
The Library Shelf
This is the third volume of the series directed specifically to the field of aeronautical sciences, but exclu‐ding propulsion and combustion. The present four papers arc concerned…
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 contract covering supply of cabin pressure control equipment for the DH 125 executive jet aircraft has been awarded to Kollsman Instrument Ltd. by de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd.
Aviation Electronics
The Amplilitc boom microphone headset has been granted F.A.A. Approval and meets the requirements or the F.A.A. Technical Standing Orders TSO‐C57 and TSO‐C58.
Tools for the Workshop
Three electronic units which give furnace teams a complete analysis of the steel throughout the whole of the steelmaking process, and so help to speed up production, are now being…
Research and Test Apparatus
Numerous components in high temperature machines are subjected during their working life to both static (creep) stresses and cyclic (fatigue) stresses. For example, with turbine…
New Materials
Flexible Ducting Ltd., Ruchill Street, Maryhill, Glasgow, N.W., have announced the introduction of a new ultra‐lightweight ducting, Featherflex, which, it is claimed is the…
British Patent Abridgments
These details of British Patent Specifications are taken by permission from ‘Abridgments of Specifications—Patents for Inventions’. Copies of the full specifications are…
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