Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 46 Issue 7

Horizon

Lightning strike tests on model aircraft, as part of the Electrical Research Association's service to British industry, have provided data on which the safety of delta‐winged…

Field's provide á la carte aircraft services

IN ITS MODERN facility at East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, are full engineering facilities for the maintenance, major overhaul, repair and modification of a wide range of…

System monitors terrain closure

THE DC‐10 which SAS are putting into service in 1975 will be equipped with the Sundstrand Ground Proximity Warning System and Douglas will offer it as standard equipment on this…

High temperature operation

AS PART OF its research programme Rolls‐Royce has recently run an experimental jet engine at combustion outlet temperatures exceeding 1800°K — well above the temperatures used in…

The future of avionics

G.E. Beck

IN WRITING about avionic equipment for the aircraft of the future it is possible to follow obvious extensions of current technology with confidence gradually diminishing as the…

This is the Question

It has been stated that Britain's air industry is bound to die (Air Cdre. E. M. Donaldson — “Daily Telegraph” 22/4/74). Do you agree with this prognosis and, if so, can you…

Aviation Journalism

Major MC Oliver Stewart, AFC

TODAY in Britain, bigness is worshipped as the only god. Successive Ministers — each one more immune from aeronautical enthusiasm than his predecessor, each one driven forward by…

Application of PTFE woven fibre

THE IMPROVED BEARING PROPERTIES of PTFE woven fabrics were first discovered by an American consultant engineer, Charles White, in the mid‐1950s, when attempting to modify the…

Airport Installations

A new fleet of fuelling vehicles is going into service at Gatwick Airport. Here the first Thames articulated fueller for Shell Aviation Service makes a delivery to the British…