Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 38 Issue 5

European collaboration in aeronautics

THE theme of an address given by Mr H. G. Conway, managing director of Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd., at the Hanover Fair Symposium on Advanced Technology during the course of the…

Effects of Airframe and Powerplant Configuration on V/S.T.O.L. Performance: A discussion of the wide variety of aircraft and powerplant layouts for V/S.T.O.L. applications investigated by B.A.C.

R.F. Creasey, N.W. Boorer, R. Dickson

This paper discusses a large range of layouts that have been studied in relation to both strike and transport V/S.T.O.L. requirements. The performance of aircraft with different…

The Prospects for Civil V.T.O.L. Aircraft: A discussion of the advantages and the opportunities offered by the use of V.T.O.L. aircraft for a new short haul air transport system

Ian Chichester‐Miles

AT the present time, with preparations in hand for the advent of the supersonic transport aircraft, it is a sobering thought that the fastest overall journey speed between the…

Military V/S.T.O.L. Transport Aircraft: A review of the background to current jet lift tactical transport proposals

D.G. Brown, D.H. Jagger

SINCE man first aspired to fly the desire to take‐off and land vertically and to hover in flight has always presented a challenge to the engineer. To date only the rotary wing…

Structural Problems Associated with Variable Geometry: A review of the problems involved in the structure of variable sweep wings

Marvin M. Alexander

This paper presents a broad survey of the structural problems associated with variable geometry for aircraft. Variable sweep allows an aircraft to fly throughout a broad regime of…

Ear‐to‐ground

The establishment of a direct data link between the computer centres of Bristol Siddeley at Patchway, Bristol, and S.N.E.C.M.A. at Suresnes, Paris, marks a new and important step…

Personalities in the news

The Minister of Technology, Mr Frank Cousins, s appointed Mr G. C. Gaut, M.A., B.Sc., and r Alexander Ross to be part‐time members of the national Research Development…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council and publications of other similar Research Bodies as issued.