Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 14 Issue 5

CONCENTRATING ON ESSENTIALS

THE impenetrable cloak of selfishness and self‐centredness in which many people still contrive to immure themselves even at this stage of the war is truly heart‐breaking. It does…

Boost Controls for Aero‐Engines

D. Ramsay

THE power output from an engine is roughly proportional to the absolute pressure of the charge mixture in the induction system. If we take a normally aspirated engine, the maximum…

The I.Ae.S. Annual Meeting

Alexander Klemin

IN our report of the tenth annual meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences we shall not follow precisely the order in which the sessions occurred nor at all times…

Torsion in Box Beams: A Suggested Simplifying Assumption—Making Analysis Easier

To the Editor SIR, In the January issue of AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING (Vol. XIV, No. 158) there is an extremely interesting article by Payne on “Torsion in Box Beams”. Unfortunately, as…

New R.A.F. Types: XXI.—The North American Mustang

THE NA‐73 (P.51) Mustang was produced in 1940 and is now going into service with the R.A.F. It differs considerably from earlier North American types, in that it is long and…

German Aircraft Instruments

F. Postlethwaite

DISTANT READING COMPASSES ONE of the most interesting German aircraft installations is centred around the distant reading compass.

A German Report on Effects of Damage

THE aircraft produced by the Messcrschmitt company‐ are well known‐ for their particular type of construction, the characteristic feature of which is the single wing‐spar and…

Research Progress in Germany: Translations issued by the N.A.C.A.

The theory of jet pumps is still rather incomplete, and relatively little has been published so far. Successful designs have been developed by trial and error and information…

The Motor Industry and Aircraft Production

H.H. Budds, F.W. Hofmann, E.E. Lundberg, H.T. Platz, H.J. Roesch

THIS paper is being written in a spirit of co‐operation between the automobile industry and the aircraft industry. If anything is said which may appear to be an attempt to detract…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a mechanism for synchronizing multiple prime movers, a liquid pump, a plurality of hydraulic motors in series therewith, there being a hydraulic motor for each prime mover…