Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 8 Issue 11
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The New Altitude Regulations: A Discussion on the Meaning of Height
EVERY day, in every way, aeronautics becomes more and more abstruse. We imagine that very few of our readers but shared our own ignorance of the extreme complication of the new…
Altitude Record Flights: The New F.A.I. Regulations Explained, with a Description of the French Potez 50
R.J. de MarollesTHE problem of accurately calculating the actual altitude reached in the course of a record attempt was for long solved by direct reading of the diagrammatic curve of a recording…
The Vee Tail in Spin: An Account of Experiments Made in 1932 on the Rudlicki Oblique Empennage
A.V. StephensRather more than four years ago there was published in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING the first description of a novel type of tail, described by its inventor as an oblique empennage, to…
Modern Helicopter Theory: A Complete Exposition of Up‐to‐Date Ideas on the Principles of Direct Lift Flight
Vittorio IsaccoIn this article M. Isacco concludes his exposition of what he believes to be the underlying principles of flight by direct‐lift machines. He here surveys the types that have been…
The Mignet Pou‐Du‐Ciel: Official Report of Tests Carried Out in the R.A.E. 24‐Ft. Wind‐Tunne
In view of the discussion caused by a series of accidents which have happened to Poux‐du‐Ciel in France and England, which raised doubts as to its longitudinal stability and…
Electric Engine‐Testing Plant: The Type of Equipment Used in a Modern Electrical Aero‐Engine Test Laboratory
THE present rapid progress in the development of internal‐combustion engines necessitates rapid and accurate testing methods, and it has been the aim of the electrical industry to…
Some Books Recently Received
This book is written for the student and admirably suits that purpose. It treats the general subject of aeronautics in an elementary and concise way, but covers a wide field so…
A Self‐Contained Capstan Lathe: An Improved Herbert Machine Giving a Wide Range of Speeds
THE present R.A.F. Expansion Scheme has resulted in a considerable demand for machine tools; and plant engineers are experiencing difficulty in maintaining agreed dates when…
Air Ministry Official Notices
Examination Boards will sit for the purpose of examining applicants for ground engineers' licences at the following places and times:—
Air Ministry Contracts
The following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during August is extracted from the September issue of The Ministry of Labour Gazette:—
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and Technical Notes of the U.S. National Advisory…
U.S. Patent Specifications
A method of preventing detrimental ice formation in the induction system of an internal‐combustion engine for aircraft which consists in causing a small proportion of an…
Month in the Patent Office
A screw propeller wherein the blades are turned about their axes to vary the pitch is provided with means which are a function of the engine speed and which tend to turn the…
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- Prof Phil Webb