Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 41 Issue 9

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR. Mk. I: A description of the first pure jet maritime reconnaissance aircraft embodying some of the most advanced avionics available and about to enter R.A.F. service

THE Nimrod programme was initiated in the gloomy days of early 1965 when project after project had come to grief on the rocks of financial excess and governmental displeasure…

Ancillary Equipment for Nimrod: Brief details of selected items of equipment used on HS.801

The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft currently in service with Royal Air Force Coastal Command is the World's first pure jet maritime reconnaissance aircraft designed for operation…

Application of Power Spectral Methods to Aircraft Gust Clearance: A review of the use of power spectral gust design procedures for the computation of design limit loads on civil aircraft

B.W. Payne, R.A. Cox

POWER spectral methods for computing loads on aircraft due to atmospheric turbulence have been developed over the past dozen years or so. Such calculations are carried out on all…

Design for Ease of Engine Maintenance: An important feature of the new generation of advanced technology three shaft turbofan engines is the high standard of maintainability set

EASE of maintenance is a major consideration in the design of the Rolls‐Royce RB.211 three‐shaft turbofan, and one of the most important aspects of the advance in technology which…

New Philosophies in Automatic Power Unit Controls: An account of the effect of the introduction of digital computers on aircraft automatic systems given in a paper first presented at the last BALPA Symposium

E.S. Eccles

TRADITIONALLY, progress is presented as a steady advance, a smooth upward curve with time. It is not really like that at all. It is made in sudden steps followed by a period of…

Ear‐to‐ground

The latest series of launchings in the European Space Research Organisation (E.S.R.O.) research programme has been successfully completed by a team from British Aircraft…

Auxiliary Equipment

Details of Some Components Used for Subsidiary Services in Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. A mobile crane and forklift truck for removing and fitting turboprop engines in…

Aviation Electronics

Details of Electrical and Electronic Apparatus with Applications in the Maintenance and Operation of Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. A revolutionary new logic system…

New Materials

Brief Particulars of Recently Introduced Materials likely to have Aircraft, Missile or Space Vehicle Applications. The whole business of metal forming may be turned completely…

Tools for the Industry

A Selection of Equipment of Use in the Production and Maintenance of Aircraft, Missiles, Space Vehicles and Components. All ball and roller bearings up to 12 in. in diameter…

Research and Testing

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. Recent accidents involving fire, and the development of new materials and test methods, have indicated a need for additional…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb