Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 50 Issue 2

Editorial

Happy landings — or to be more correct and to put it at its simplest ‘happier landings’ — is a very topical and pertinent subject.

DOPPLER MLS The UK Solution

Terence Ford, C. Eng, AFRAeS

The need to provide precision approach guidance over wider angular coverage than is possible with the present Instrument Landing System (ILS) and the wish to avoid siting problems…

Fly‐By‐Wire Flight Control

R.P.G. Collinson BSc(Eng.

The automatic pilot is probably the first application the layman thinks of in terms of electronics and flight control. However, the extensive part now played by electronics in…

VLF… Wave of the future

Max Karant

What is VLF? The letters stand for Very Low Frequency, just as the letters VHF stand for Very High Frequency (television and aircraft radio communication stations) and so on. All…

Some Lessons learned from Aircraft Accidents—The Engineering Aspects

Eric ISO Newton, MBE, CEng, FRAeS

A survey of both public transport and general aviation accidents which occurred in the United Kingdom over the past 20 years will show that material failure in various forms has…

Avionics

Incorporating microprocessor control into their range of HF radio receivers has enabled Philips not only to simplify control, but also to provide such outstanding features as…

News and views

SIA Increases In‐House Engineering Facilities at Paya Lebar Increasing in‐house engineering facilities and services at Paya Lebar have enabled Singapore Airlines to undertake a…