Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 45 Issue 3

Horizon

A ten per cent growth over the next five years is the key to the growth of British Airways anticipated by the chairman David Nicolson. “We are fortunate to be in an industry that…

Concorde's Olympus 593: The British centrepiece at the Peking exhibition

Following the declared intention of the People's Republic of China to buy Concorde, much interest at the Peking Fair is inevitably centred round the Olympus 593. Indeed, it seems…

Aviation at the Peking Exhibition

A non‐directional beacon transmitter cabinet will be on show, part of the Decca NDB system which conforms to the relevant requirements of ICAO annex 10 and the appropriate…

Swing wing: Modifications in variable geometry configuration concepts

W.J. BIRD, CEng, MIED AFRAeS

THE OBJECTIVES of this article are twofold, firstly to argue the case for variable configuration aircraft, i.e. aircraft whose planform can be adjusted in flight to give optimum…

Kneeling landing gear: The C5 variable geometry development

THE BASIC MILITARY NEED for the C‐5 relates to the ‘Remote Presence’ concept involving rapid deployment of troops and all heavy equipment to any remote location thereby allowing…

Reports, memoranda, current and committee papers

E.J. ALA MACADAM

THE US GOVERNMENT, a few years ago, conducted an inquiry into current research projects to find the date of the original periodical article or scientific paper from which the…

Flight development of the European Airbus

IF AIRBUS INDUSTRIE'S A300B continues its present rate of progress with its flight‐test programme, as scheduled it will undoubtedly become remarkable among modern prototypes for…

Equipment and materials

The stud base diffused junction thyristor type 45T is in a package conforming to SO‐28 and has a mean forward current rating of 45 amperes, voltages 100 to 1000VRRM.

Books and literature

The definition of fretting is here summed up in two phrases: When “the relative velocity of the two surfaces is very much lower than other forms of wear” and when “the surfaces…