Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 9 Issue 1

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

The Lessons of Paris: Reflections on an Unusually Important Exhibition

DETAILED descriptions of all the aeroplanes and aero‐engines exhibited at the Fifteenth Paris Aero Salon have appeared in varions of our contemporaries all over the world, and…

The Fifteenth Paris Salon: Trends of Aeroplane and Engine Development as Exemplified in the Exhibits

W.S. Farren

SO much has already been written about the Fifteenth Paris Salon that it may seem that at this date little more remains to be said. It is the purpose of these notes rather to…

Tension Diagonal Fields: The Effect of Boom End Load on Tension Diagonal Field Distribution

E.H. Atkin

TENSION diagonal fields frequently occur in the webs of beams or the faces of hollow torsion members in association with considerable end loads in the booms at the corners.

High Octane Fuels: The Conditions Governing Their Use in Engines for Commercial Aeroplanes

E.L. Bass

THE original work of Mr. H. R. Ricardo in 1919 showed some of the technical advantages of using fuels of high anti‐knock value. Since this time the development of aero‐engines in…

Loss of Momentum and Drag: A Method of Measuring the Drag by Exploration of the Wake Behind a Wing

J.E. Serby

IT has for a long time been realised that if a complete exploration is made of the wake behind a body and the loss of momentum suffered by the air flowing past it measured the…

Air Ministry Official Notices

In accordance with current airworthiness approval procedure for such instruments and equipment as are covered by Civil Specifications, duly authorised firms give a “certificate of…

Air Ministry Contracts

THE following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during October is extracted from the November 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 flying machine having stationary wings and rotating wing systems, said stationary wings having openings corresponding to a part of said rotating wing systems, said rotating wing…

Month in the Patent Office

The pitch of the blades of an air‐screw is adjustable by means of a movable cylinder which is mounted beyond the end of the hub and moves over a fixed piston to either side of…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb