Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 9 Issue 6
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Our Hundredth Number: A Review of the Development of Eight Significant Years
THE observant reader will have noticed of recent months that the number above on the left‐hand side of this page has been approaching three figures, until to‐day the number “100”…
The Art of Dynamometry: With a Description of a New Instrument for Measuring Engine‐Power in Flight
N.S. MuirONE of the main problems of pressing importance in aeronautics concerns the variation of engine power with height. For many years now attempts have been made analytically to…
Progress of Research 1929–1937: A Review of Developments in Aircraft and Engine Design during the Life of “Aircraft Engineering”
Henry TizardAIRCRAFT ENGINEERING was born at the very beginning of a period of great developments in aeronautics. For over a decade the steady improvement in the performance of aircraft had…
An Electric V.P. Airscrew: The Curtiss Constant‐Speed Full‐Featuring Type with Electric and Manual Control
R.E. PalmerTRENDS in modern aeroplane design toward multi‐engined types super‐charged for high altitude operation have imposed new demands upon variable‐pitch airscrew equipment. To secure…
Micro‐Photographical Methods: The Application of Modern Photo‐Microscopy in the Testing of Aeroplane Materials
A. KufferathTHE old and time‐tried chemical methods of determination of the technological properties of materials have, during the last 15 or 20 years, been accompanied and perfected by…
Composite I‐Section Beams: Their Properties when Subjected to Bending Stresses, with Particular Reference to Steel‐Duralumin Beams
Leslie P. DudleyIT is shown in the present paper that a beam may be constructed, consisting of a steel section securely bolted to a lower section of high‐tensile aluminium alloy, having a weight…
Air Ministry Contracts
THE following list of contracts placed by the Department during the month of March is extracted from the April 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
2. The combination of an aerofoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a vane member, said vane member comprising a pair of sections hinged together, means to…
Month in the Patent Office
In a retractable aircraft undercarriage in which an articulated radius rod 6, 8 has one of its lengths 8 pivoted about an axis 9 for retracting or extending the undercarriage, the…
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- Prof Phil Webb