Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 40 Issue 12

A glance at the future

THE address at the opening of the Sixth Engineering Materials and Design International Exhibition and Conference, held at Olympia at the beginning of December, was given by Sir…

Glow Discharge Electron Beam Welding

J.T. Maskrey, G.T. Isaacs, S.D. Ford, K.W. Easton, R.A. Dugdale, J.A. Desport

The high voltage, low pressure glow discharge is an efficient source of high energy electrons. Recent advances in the subject indicate the great scope it offers as a flexible…

Developments in Explosive Welding

B. Crossland, J.D. Williams, V. Shribman

THE possibility of explosive cladding was first recognised in 1957, when it was noted in explosive forming that if a metal die was employed and an excessive charge was used then…

Future Developments in Plasma Arc Welding

M.H. Burke

SINCE the introduction of plasma are welding, in its simplest form, the process and technology has made extremely rapid strides. It is the object of this paper to explain, in…

The Future for Joining Metals by Techniques recently Developed

R. Graham

IT is generally agreed there would be a significant saving in weight and consequent improvement in efficiency, if aircraft could be assembled by welding, instead of by the use of…

The Scope of Electron Beam Welding

J.D. Russell

THE conversion of the kinetic energy of a beam of electrons into heat on striking a metal work‐piece has been known for a very long time, a patent was in fact taken out for an…

Quality Control of Welding Techniques

W.G. Cook

THE effective use of new materials and new manufacturing techniques has always played a key role in the design philosophies of the aerospace industry. Expensive though this is, it…

Some Thoughts on Tactical Aircraft: A brief description of the characteristics and requirements of the ideal tactical support aircraft

I.M.D. Wray

THE major problem in the planning of a country's future defence requirements is always the prediction of the exact nature of the next conflict and the range of performance of the…

Spreading and Development of the Parallel Wall Jet

S.K.A. Naib

A description of an experimental investigation of a round air jet projected parallel to a wall and the resulting velocity profiles, maximum velocity decay and the rate of jet…

The Library Shelf

One again Jane's is bigger than ever before, with more words and more new illustrations than any of its predecessors, and a larger number of three column illustrations than in…

Ear‐to‐ground

A whole new family of expendable low cost supply dropping parachutes have been introduced by the G.Q. Parachute Company Ltd. The new parachute was demonstrated before a large…

Personalities in the news

Mr Peter Coldwell has been appointed Sales Executive (Pallets) at Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd., Manchester. Mr Coldwell will be responsible for pallet sales to civil airlines…

Auxiliary Equipment

Details of Some Components Used for Subsidiary Services in Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. Graseby Instruments Ltd., of Surbiton, Surrey, have recently introduced a new…

New Materials

Brief Particulars of Recently Introduced Materials likely to have Aircraft, Missile or Space Vehicle Applications. A new company known as Mitchell Mouldings Ltd., Middleton Lodge…

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.