Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 61 Issue 5
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A Range of Turbofans
Terry Ford, CEng MRAeSPROGRESS in the development of turbofan engines for civil and military applications has enabled requirements from around 5,000lb to over 70,000lb thrust to be satisfied or…
Over Fifty Years' Aerospace Experience at Sheffield Forgemasters
FROM 1942 to 1945 volunteers from the Home Guard guarded a steel forging company on the banks of the River Don in Sheffield. The strategic importance of the company, now known as…
Bruderer‐Leinhaas Differential Ways Press
THE Differential Ways press is driven hydro‐mechanically by means of connecting rods and can perform all types of pressing work and operations which are normally performed by…
Traceable Flowmeter Calibration for Performance and Component Testing Procedures
Charles GriffithsTOUGHER standards imposed by the aerospace industry on engine performance measurement have created an unprecedented reliance upon NAMAS approved high precision testing for flow…
New Avionics Packaging for the European Fighter Aircraft Programme
Stephen CoxTHE European Fighter Aircraft (EFA) is an 800‐aircraft programme to equip the airforces of Great Britain, West Germany, Italy and Spain with an agile, single seat, twin engine…
Research into the Physics of Hypervelocity Impact
A two‐stage gas gun has been built at British Aerospace's Sowerby Research Centre, Filton, Bristol. The gas gun, a company investment in a high technology future, is used as a…
Anti‐Static Spot Blaster Provides Ideal Bonding Surface
Airship Industries (UK) manufacture its monocoque airship gondolas using Kevlar skin and titanium‐faced bulkhead panels. To achieve a good bond between the otherwise glossy…
Safety Topics: Human Factors in the Cockpit
MaydayRECENT discussion has focussed on the protection of military aircrew from the rigours of operating high performance, agile aircraft while at the same time expecting high mental…
Equipment, Materials and Services
New at Verospeed is a range of EMI/RFI shielding products, including conductive adhesives, jackets and tapes designed to protect enclosures and cables from interference, as well…
News and Views
Swindon Skillcentre's Non Destructive Testing (NDT) school is pleased to announce that it is back in business after a closure of almost a year. The school has a new instructor who…
Contracts
The Mexican Airline LATUR has ordered two Airbus A320s, becoming the first airline in Latin America to select the world's most advanced airliner. It also expressed the wish to…
People
Mr Ted Bray has recently been appointed as quality assurance manager for Ion Deposition Ltd of Corby, who operate the specialist vacuum deposition coating service for the…
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