Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 15 Issue 2

COMMERCIAL AIR ORGANIZATION

IN this issue we complete the publication of a series of articles on the organization of the equipment and maintenance of an air‐line which, with one intermission, has been…

Strain‐Gauge Technique in Design

C.R. Strang

STRAIN‐GAUGE technique might, at first glance, seem so highly technical a subject as to occasion some surprise at interest in it at a time when production problems seem to require…

Two‐Spar Wing Stress Analysis: The Mathematical Theory, with Numerical Examples

W.J. Goodey

Effect of Tensile Stresses in the Bottom Skin WE now come to the investigation of the effect of tensile stresses in the bottom skin. In this case, the analysis is necessarily more…

Two Important Books Reviewed: Engine Design for Students and a Reference Book on Synthetic Rubbers

F. NIXON

This notable book gives pleasure from the outset owing to the high standard of its printing and binding, now all too rarely met with these days, and owing to the obvious…

Air‐line Engineering Management

Ivor Lusty

VII.—MORALE WHEN an undertaking is nationally sponsored and, in part or in whole, Government financed; and when competition between itself and similar undertakings is non‐existent…

Theory of Shock‐Absorber Design

F.E. Burger

THE aim of this paper is to provide a survey of some of the principal theoretical considerations affecting the design of aircraft undercarriages.

Quality Control in Production Engineering

H. Rissik

THE statistical method of controlling product quality during manufacture—a technique commonly known by the shorter title, Quality Control—is a very recent development in the field…

The Prevention of Eye Injuries

Rupert G. Meyer, J.T. Bowers

The Significance of this Class of Injury THE vast and far‐reaching effect of an eye injury is seldom fully realized, either by the worker or by the management, a fact which, no…

U.S. Patent Specifications

The improved method of operating an internal combustion engine which includes the steps of precompressing a gas for subsequent further compression in the engine, to a…