Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 34 Issue 8
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An International JournalTable of contents
The Jet Executive
THIS month we publish the concluding part of an article describing the development of the aircraft industry in Brazil. Written by Mr K. L. C. Legg, the Head of the Department of…
Aeronautical Development in Brazil: Some Aspects and Implications of the Growth of the Aviation Industry in Brazil With Reference to the Possibility of British Co‐operation on a National Basis
K.L.C. LeggUp to a few years ago the work in the aeronautical development department of the Brazilian Technical Centre had failed to achieve one of its major objectives, which was to produce…
Effect of Fuselage Dynamics on Helicopter Ground Resonance: Investigation of the Influence of Dynamic Properties on the Rotor to Fuselage Effective Mass Ratio and its Effect on Stability Boundaries
W.E. HooperOf the parameters that may be adjusted to give the helicopter freedom from ground resonance, that which is ignored most frequently is Λ3 (ratio of effective rotor mass to…
Creep Resisting Alloys for Aircraft Gas Turbines: Details of the Two New Vacuum‐Melted Alloys: Nimonic 110 and Nimonic 115
THE history of the Nimonic series of alloys has been very closely linked to the aircraft gas turbine, for manufacture of the first alloy in the scries began twenty years ago at…
Increasing Productivity in Precision Engineering: An Introduction to the G.S.P.‐MATIC Jig‐Borer Which Has Recently Been Installed by Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd. With Particular Reference to the Production of Storage Drums for Airborne Computers
A MAJOR advance in the production capability of the Sperry Gryoscope Co. Ltd., has occurred recently following the installation of a G.S.P.‐MATIC automatic jig‐boring machine of…
Stability of Jack‐Type Aircraft Power Controls: An Analysis of the Characteristics of Hydraulic Jacks With Particular Reference to Inherent Damping and Non‐Linearities in the Valve Flow Equation
R.K. ThomassonThe impedance of a power control is the complex ratio of force to extension when the applied force is sinusoidal and the input does not move. This definition can be extended if…
Testing Aircraft Electrical Equipment: Details of the Facilities Available at English Electric's Bradford Division
IT was in 1954 that English Electric formed an Aircraft Equipment Division, from a section of the Company which had already been producing electrical equipment for aeronautical…
The Library Shelf
In the preface the author opens his remarks with ‘This book is intended for students, for newcomers to the aircraft industry, for practising designers and for research workers in…
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
Recent developments have played an important part in accelerating ‘turn‐round’ time of aircraft on the ground, which is of course a vital factor in the economic operation of…
New Materials
Examples of the widespread use of Turners ‘Duraglas’ glass fibre reinforcement materials in the aircraft and missile industries have come recently from Australia. The sale of…
Research and Test Apparatus
An industrial periscope that is said to give a direct, illuminated view into the inaccessible parts of machinery has been developed by the Kershaw Division of the Rank Organization…
Aviation Electronics
As a result of negotiations between Smiths Aviation Division and Sud Aviation, the French company has placed an order for simplex and multiplex versions of the Smiths automatic…
Tools for the Workshop
To augment an already wide range of spark erosion equipment, Wickman Ltd., Coventry, have developed an entirely new scrvo‐controlled spark erosion head.
British Patent Abridgments
An aeroplane comprises a body of delta planform, two wings extending from the ends of the base of the body and pivotally connected thereto for adjustment in sweep during flight…
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- Prof Phil Webb