Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 43 Issue 2

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

Selling the Concorde

CONCORDE is on the verge of completing the most vital phase of its flight trials, the results of which should present the governments concerned and the airlines holding options on…

Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B

THE Trident 3B is the fourth member of the Trident family and the third to enter service with B.E.A., who have ordered twenty‐six of the new aircraft. It is the high capacity…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb034491. When citing the article, please…

Powerplant: A brief description of the Spey Mk. 512 and the RB.162 booster engine

THE Spey Mk. 512 engines of 12,000 lb. thrust in the Trident 3B are the latest and most powerful of this family of Rolls‐Royce commercial turbofan engines which have been in…

Trident 3B Aircraft Systems: Details of the fuel system, electrical power installation, hydraulic system, air conditioning and flying controls

THE various systems on the Trident 3B are, as is to be expected, logical developments of those evolved for the Tridents 1, 1E and 2E.

Lockheed Nose Gear for Trident Three

LOCKHEED‐designed nose undercarriage assemblies are fitted to both the Series 1 and 2 Trident aircraft and a new design of nose landing gear has been developed for the…

The Advance Towards Category Three Automatic Landings: The use of the Plessey‐Daval Flight Data Recorder towards obtaining Category 3 Autoland clearance on B.E.A. Tridents

AT the present time the B.E.A. Trident fleet is cleared to perform Automatic Landings at suitable airfields throughout the U.K. and Europe in weather conditions down to Category 2…

The Repair of Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic Radomes: An account of the development of a technical service that has enabled badly damaged radomes to be repaired

D. Himsley, R.G. Hoare

IT is surprising to find, in the modern aircraft industry, a technical service that has developed in a short time from informal experiments with materials and techniques, carried…

The Manufacture of Airline Catering Equipment: A brief account of a firm which specialises in the design and fabrication of galleys and other catering equipment

AIRLINE catering is a very individual business with wide variations between the operator's requirements based on their route network, long haul or short haul, scheduled or…

Ear‐to‐ground

A grant of £31,357 for three years has been awarded by the Science Research Council to the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton for research…

Personalities in the news

The Minister of Aviation Supply, Mr F. G. Corfield, with the agreement of the Prime Minister, has appointed Mr J. A. Hamilton, M.B.E., to be a Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of…

Auxiliary Equipment

Details of Some Components Used for Subsidiary Services in Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. GEC‐Elliott Process Automation Ltd., part of GEC‐Elliott Automation, has supplied…

Aviation Electronics

Details of Electrical and Electronic Apparatus with Applications in the Maintenance and Operation of Aircraft, Missiles and Space Vehicles. A new addition to Jermyn Products

Research and Testing

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. An informal approval has been given by the British Aircraft Corporation, Weybridge Division, Systems Department to the performance…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb