Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 43 Issue 8

The Chinese market

THE dramatic announcement of the Sino‐American thaw and the equally interesting, though not so trumpeted, announcement of plans to re‐establish ambassadorial relations between…

European A300B Airbus: Planning and development

THE genealogy of the A300B European Airbus, currently engaging an increasing workforce in Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands, can be traced back to October 1965 when a…

Aerodynamic features

THE conventional appearance of the A300B belies its aerodynamic refinement. Early research work initiated by Hawker Siddeley Aviation has been extended by wind tunnel testing in…

Structural features

THE structural design is based where possible on the principles developed over the years on aircraft such as the Trident and Caravelle, and on a scries of investigations and tests…

Optimum number of blades for maximum efficiency of centrifugal blowers

Y.R. REDDY, M.S. KONNUR

A BLOWER is a rotodynamic machine converting the mechanical energy into fluid energy. Its performance represents the combination of performance of all the components. In the…

Transparency applications of Polycarbonates

GEORGE L. WISER

POLYCARBONATE can now be considered among the select group of aircraft transparent plastics and it has several key properties that make it attractive to the aircraft designer…

Yak 40

ONE OF the latest, if less spectacular Russian aircraft is the Yakovlev YAK‐40 currently being produced in 10‐seat executive and 27‐seat passenger transport versions. The aircraft…

Decompression of cabins

MARCUS LANGLEY CEng, FRAeS, FIMechE

IN 1954 when two Comet 1 aircraft were lost in unusual circumstances, an intensive study of possible causes was made and everything pointed to there having been explosive…

Ear‐to‐ground

Conllict between an engineer's honour towards his code of practice may be pitted directly against threats from his union for not complying with instructions if the Industrial…

New equipment and materials

ZRBSC is a series of zirconium boride silicon carbide compositions. It resists thermal shock and oxidation up to temperatures of 36000°F. Available in tubes up to 20in. long…