Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 14 Issue 10
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An International JournalTable of contents
THE NEED FOR ENLIGHTENMENT
HAVING been somewhat critical last month of certain aspects of American publicity, we are glad to have an excuse to make amends for this by drawing attention to the beneficence of…
Notes on Enemy Bombsights
F. PostlethwaiteTESTS on modern aircraft have shown that a small advantage is to be gained by the use of pendulum stabilization over the spirit level, but it is hardly considered sufficient to…
Retractable Undercarriages: A Simple Method of Solving Geometrical Problems
A.A. PerrichesTHE problem of undercarriage retraction has now been completely solved, and difficulties may occur only when the wheel has to be stowed flat under the wing as the motion generally…
New R.A.F. Types
ALTHOUGH it is obviously a four‐engined development of the Manchester the Lancaster is a very great improvement on the earlier aeroplane. It is remarkable not only in that it is…
Air‐line Engineering Maintenance
Ivor LustyTHERE are at work, in any industrial enterprise, economic laws, which when removed from their environment and exposed as pure principals are so immediately evident that…
Research Reports and Memoranda
This work originated in a request from an aircraft firm for information on the effect of the ground on the elevator power of one of their designs, a model of which was being…
Foreign Research Progress: Translations issued by the N.A.C.A.
The present report describes a device for ascertaining the bending and buckling effect in stress measurements on shell structures accessible from one side only. Beginning with a…
Elastic Theory in Sheet‐Forming Problems
F.R. ShanleyTHE main object of this paper is to help bridge the gap that exists between the scientific knowledge of materials and the practical application of that knowledge to the production…
Heat Treatment at the Wright Paterson Plant
H.W. PerryComplete change in heat treating practice and installation of new equipment for rapid quantity production were necessitated by the sudden great increase in orders for aero‐engines…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In aircraft, an airfoil comprising in combination a fixed surface having a rearwardly opening housing for receiving a portion of a control surface, pivotally supported relative to…
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- Prof Phil Webb