Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 49 Issue 1

Electrical Flight Control for Boeing YC‐14

Martin Scott

The Boeing Company is manufacturing two prototype YC‐14 aircraft as part of the United States Air Force Advanced Medium STOL (AMST) Programme. This programme is directed towards…

All weather operations and equipment

Terence E. Ford, MRAeS

Held at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the international conference on “The Future of Aircraft All Weather Operations” attracted contributions on a wide variety of…

Basic Air Traffic Control Package

Specially developed by Park Air Electronics to meet the needs of very small airports and airfields for a reliable and relatively inexpensive ground/air communications package, the…

New material — Boron Filament

Experiments made with filaments show them to have greater tensile resistance than the same material in its massive form. This phenomenon is surprising when considering the smaller…

News and views

Civil aviation in Hong Kong has entered a new era with the introduction of Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) — an integrated computerised radar system — at Kai Tak Airport.

People

The Prince Philip Medal of the City and Guilds of London Institute, was presented in November to Mr Harold Denis Frederick Eagles, Divisional Manager of the Aviation Service and…

Equipment & Materials

Portable ultrasonic flaw detectors Two new, high precision, compact, portable ultrasonic flaw detectors, the PA1035 and PA1035M, are announced by Baugh and Weedon Limited. The new…