Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 43 Issue 10
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CONCORDE SPIN‐OFF
ILL‐INFORMED comment on the Concorde has led to many accusations of extravagance. These have now been largely shown up as false with the publication of the findings of the Centre…
Trislander, triumph of ingenuity
FOR MOST people the Trislander “happened” at Farnborough on September 11, 1970 when the aircraft created one of the show's bigger surprises by flying in, unannounced, on the same…
Strength and stiffness of sandwich panels under transverse loading
MARCUS LANGLEYTHIS paper describes work done to translate the theory of Structural Sandwich Panel Design into a form in which it could be used for rapid estimation in a design office.
Hydraulics and landing gear
A TRIPLEX HYDRAULIC SYSTEM provides maximum safety and reliability for the powered flying controls. In a triplex system, all three sub‐systems operate simultaneously so that if…
Flap and slat systems and tail plane actuator
THE DESIGN and manufacture of the complete flap and slat operating systems and of the tailplane actuator for the A300B Airbus is being undertaken by H. M. Hobson Ltd (now absorbed…
Increasing efficiency
In the manufacture of the Jaguar aircraft at Toulouse Breguet were confronted with certain cleaning problems involving hydraulic circuits. The problems stemmed principally from…
Equipment and materials
The Forster crack detector for steel nuts has spinning differential stray flux probes. It tests hopper fed nuts with diameters ranging from 10 to 27mm at a rate of 3 per sec…
Ear‐to‐ground
The urgent need for decisions on new programmes is emphasised by Sir Richard Smeeton, Director of the Society of British Aerospace Companies. “With such aircraft as the supersonic…
Books and literature
The effect entry into the EEC will have on the pattern of manufacturing production is so sweeping most of this “occasional paper” from the University of Cambridge department of…
Personalities in the news
R. F. HUNT, deputy chairman of the Dowty Group, has been appointed chairman of Dowty Fuel Systems Ltd. N. H. PAYNE, managing director of Dowty Fuel Systems since 1959, becomes…
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- Prof Phil Webb