Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 35 Issue 2

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

DH 125

IT was on April 6, 1961, that the de Havilland Aircraft Company made its first public announcement to the effect that the decision had been taken to produce a high‐speed jet…

Design Philosophy and Structural Details: Background to the Requirement for a High Speed Low Cost, Jet Executive Aircraft of Simple Design

C.J. Goodwin

THE launching of a new aircraft in this highly competitive age is a very expensive undertaking —and as a result, a risky one. If a new or growing demand can be satisfied by the…

Systems and Equipment

A Description of the Auxiliary and Ancillary Systems of a Jet Executive Aircraft Whose Design Philosophy is Based Upon Simplicity and Well‐Proven Components. AS the Senior…

Bristol Siddeley Viper Mark 520 Turbojet: A Description of the Development Background to this Small Turbojet Engine, its Technical Features and Performance

THE Bristol Siddeley Viper 520 turbojet engine which powers the de Havilland DH 125 jet executivc aircraft, employs an eight‐stage axial compressor which is driven by a…

Imperial College, University of London: The Fifth of a Series of Articles Describing the Facilities, Academic Curricula and Research Activities in the Aeronautical Engineering Departments of the British Universities

A.J. Taylor‐Russell

THE teaching and study of aeronautics at Imperial College date back to the year 1909 when the first of a series of evening courses in aero‐nautical science was given in the…

Professional Publications

Under this heading are given each month the principal articles of aeronautical interest appearing in the current issues of the Journals of the leading Professional Societies and…

Current Developments in All Weather Landing: A Review of the Problems to be Solved and the Programmes being Pursued in Europe and the United States

G.W. Webber

The aircraft industry is at present at a stage where a number of striking new advances are approaching practical reality. The super‐sonic transport, vertical take‐off and landing…

Trade Announcements

It has been announced by Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. that the following Board changes have taken place. Sir Thomas Sopwith retires as Chairman and is succeeded by Sir Roy Dobson…

Aviation Electronics

Details of Electrical and Electronic Apparatus with Applications in the Maintenance and Operation of Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, is…

Auxiliary Equipment

Details of Some Components Used for Subsidiary Services in Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. Microcell Ltd, a subsidiary of BTR Industries Ltd, has announced an entirely new…

New Materials

Brief Particulars of Recently Introduced Materials likely to have Aircraft, Missile or Space Vehicle Applications. The possibility of oil starvation in engine lubricating systems…

Research and Testing

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. Fuel flow indicators on British Overseas Airways Corporation's aircraft must be extremely accurate to avoid wastage of fuel during…

Tools for the Industry

A Selection of Equipment of Use in the Production and Maintenance of Aircraft, Missiles, Space Vehicles and their Components. Since 1959 when it was introduced, the Ferranti

British Patent Abridgments

A bearing for a rotatablc jet propulsion nozzle 10 mounted on a fixed pipe member 11 comprises an annular track 15 which extends around one of the members and provides two…

Anglo‐French Supersonic Transport: Brief Details of the Slender Delta Planform Mach 2·2 Airliner which will be Built jointly by France and Great Britain

AT a ceremony at Lancaster House on November 29, 1962, Mr Julian Amery, the British Minister of Aviation, and His Excellency M. Geoffroy de Courcel, the French Ambassador, signed…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb