Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 43 Issue 12

German and European aviation

THE strenuous denials by the German authorities at the suggestion they may be withdrawing from international co‐operation in the aviation industry affords an interesting…

Completely digital simulators

WHILE many of the current simulator systems are entirely digital they nevertheless employ some analogue components, such as instruments and dials etc., which are representative…

Simulator for total flying training

CURRENT simulator systems are obviously far from reality, yet even so, such systems are enabling approximately 80 per cent of the flying time associated with transition training…

Technical simulators

THIS FEATURE covers simulators for technical training, and consequently are designed for tasks other than the actual flying of aircraft. These include the use of electronics, of…

Basic investigation on an unswept rectangular wing with an externally blown flap

P. KUEHL, Dipl‐Ing, D. WELTE, Dipl‐Ing

As far as we know, all work on externally blown flaps has been aimed at providing a basis for studies of the flight performance and handling qualities in respect of certain…

ILS equipment in the NATO competition

ALL FOUR portable instrument approach and landing aid systems shown at the NATO evaluation competition are of considerable interest and significance.

The theory of governing for aircraft turbo alternators

D.O. BURNS

CONSTANT frequency 400Hz 3 phase, aircraft main electrical power is mostly obtained by employing a main engine driven constant speed drive (C.S.D.) of cither the pneumo or…

Increasing efficiency

Italian Carabinieri helicopters were in need of tactical communications systems capable of providing all the short range vhf and long hf communications necessary to keep a pilot…

Equipment and materials

A miniaturised thumbwheel switch CS 600 has a front panel aperture of 24·3mm and 12·7mm wide. It is available with either 8, 10 or 12 positions in BCD, decimal or BCD with…

Ear‐to‐ground

Provisional programme of the seventh International Aerospace Instrumentation Symposium, has been announced. It will be held at Cranfield from 20 to 23 March with the exhibition…

Books and literature

“We have attempted … to present a unified approach to the application of the finite difference calculus to many structural engineering problems of practical interest”. In these…

Personalities in the news

ERIC GEORGE JOHNSON has been appointed secretary to the British Airways Board. He leaves the position of BEA manager, station handling.