Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 10 Issue 12
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An International JournalTable of contents
Production and the Industry: Important Lessons to be Learnt from American Practice
A VERY large proportion of our space this month is taken up by one feature, the great importance and interest of which warrants our taking this unusual course, which has…
Tapered Beams: Suggested Solutions for Some Typical Aircraft Cases
E.H. AtkinPART III.—Taper Beams with uniform thin webs and concentrated booms of constant cross‐sectional area. This type of girder is shown in Fig. 1.
Torsional Stresses in Cylinders: A Convenient Approximate Method with Numerical Examples
J. TaylorIT is well known that the problem of finding the stresses in cylinders under torque is amenable to analytical solution in only a few simple cases. For cylinders that are not…
List of Selected Translations: The Fourth List of Translations from the Foreign Press Obtainable from the Air Ministry
APPLICATI0NS for the supply of copies of translations mentioned below should be addressed to the Under‐Secretary of Stale, Air Ministry (R.T.P.), Kingsway, W.C.2, and will be…
A Tricycle Amphibian Aeroplane: The New Spencer‐Larsen 12c., a Machine Designed to Suit the Private Owner
IT is a curious fact that, except for a few comparatively isolated instances, the amphibian aeroplane has been singularly neglected. Although in the early days of aviation its…
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…
Notes On Welding Practice—II
J.G. Waterworth, A.R. MowbrayTHE problem of oxidation is one that is an ever‐present source of trouble to the welder. It is particularly the case in aircraft construction, where light‐gauge metals are most…
U.S. Methods of Aircraft Production
T.P. WrightIT is indeed an honour to appear before you to address you on the subject “American Methods of Aircraft Production.” We in America have long held the Royal Aeronautical Society in…
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:
Month in the Patent Office
To produce equal firing intervals in a four‐stroke engine comprising x rows of y radially‐arranged cylinders, the crank shaft has y throws which are not symmetrically arranged…
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