Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 43 Issue 6

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

The common market? How old fashioned!

PARKINSON had a law for it—of course. To paraphrase: “The simpler a problem, the easier a committee can grasp its significance and the more time they will spend discussing it”.

Increased stores for the Jaguar cause modifications

THE FUNDAMENTAL factors influencing modifications in the later design stages of the Jaguar tactical support aircraft, joint production of the British Aircraft Corporation and…

Some aspects of the design of aircraft steering systems

A. CAMERON‐JOHNSON

THE FUNDAMENTAL principles governing the behaviour of aircraft during steering manoeuvres on the ground are now well known and documented, but one particular aspect of the problem…

First lightweight disc brakes for a civil airliner

I.L. STIMSON

THE CONCORDE looks as if it will be the first civil airliner to have lightweight disc brakes. In common with many of the major developments in the history of aviation Concorde…

New horizons in electron beam welding

THE first electron beam welder to be used in British airline maintenance is being installed at the Glamorgan plant of BOAC Engine Overhaul Ltd. The electron beam joins components…

The Formidable Ingenuity of the European Aerospace Industry

T.E. Ford

IN recent years, the European aerospace industry has become characterised by two forms of activity which, in the major industrial countries anyway, have become largely…

Ear‐to‐ground

It is hoped that technical discussions by the Association Internationale des Constructeurs de Material Aerospatiale on the main parts of the code for transport aeroplanes above…

New equipment and materials

The Talylin 20 straightness measuring instrument has a scanning pick‐up so that the stylus can be set up accurately on the crest of cylinders. It measures diamater change over…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb