Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 36 Issue 11

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

The future of Concorde

HARDLY had the new Socialist Government, and the new Minister of Aviation, Mr Roy Jenkins, grasped the reins of power following the October General Election when a White Paper was…

British aircraft corporation: TSR‐2

This aircraft, or more exactly this integrated weapons system, is undoubtedly of major importance to both the British aircraft industry and the Royal Air Force. It is beyond…

Sperry's SGN‐10 Inertial System: Details of the Sperry Gyroscope Company's SGN‐10 Aircraft Inertial Navigation System which has been Ordered in Quantity by Pan American World Airways

BOTH Pan American and Sperry Gyroscope Company underlined their positions as world leaders in commercial aviation and precision instrumentation respectively when they announced in…

Ferranti's Lightweight Inertial Platform: A Description of the Lightweight Inertial Platform Produced by Ferranti Ltd. for Use with the Ferranti Lightweight Inertial Navigation System and as a Reference System for Aircraft, Space Vehicles and Ships

The January issue of Aircraft Engineering contained a comprehensive account of the inertial activities of British companies (Ref. 2) including descriptions of the various gyros…

Corrosion Prevention and the BAC One‐Eleven

THE structure of the BAC One‐Eleven has been designed to withstand the rigours of intensive short‐haul operation for at (east ten years before the replacement of any major…

The Beech craft King Air: Brief Details of the Twin Turboprop Executive Aircraft for which Short Brothers and Harland Ltd. are U.K. Distributors

OF all the fields of aeronautical endeavour, that of the twin‐engined executive aircraft is possibly the most competitive. Encompassing as it does, piston‐engined, turboprop‐…

The Engine's Contribution to Economic Short‐Haul Jet Transport

E.M. Eltis, F.W. Morley

Improvements in Engine and Power Plant including Reduction in Fuel Consumption, Mechanical Design, Blade Cooling, Lower Vibration, Foreign Object Damage, Oil Consumption, and…

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A.R.B. Report: The Major Technical Content of the 27th Annual Report of the Air Registration Board outlining Current Tasks, Problems and Progress

Between the preparation of the 27th Annual Report of the A.R.B. and its final consideration, Lord Brabazon, whose personal reports it was to be, died. The Board at its meeting of…

Ear‐to‐ground

Although the number of entrants to our competition was far beyond that anticipated, nobody was successful in guessing the exact attendance, which was 242,886. However, the five…

Personalities in the news

English Electric has appointed Mr E. B. Lynch as Manager, Aircraft Equipment Sales, responsible for all the products of its Aircraft Equipment Division at Bradford covering…

Research and Testing

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. Variable‐pitch drop‐out ram air turbines which provide a stand‐by electrical or hydraulic power supply in an emergency on VC10 and…

Tools for the Industry

A Selection of Equipment of Use in the Production and Maintenance of Aircraft, Missiles, Space Vehicles and their Components. A new spark erosion machine, based on the ‘Bridgeport…

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…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb