Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 19 Issue 11

An Advance Proof

WE are indebted to the MINISTRY OF SUPPLY for calling our attention to the report on the SUPERMARINE full‐scale rig to test out before installation the complete fuel‐system of a…

A Fuel System Full‐Scale Testing Rig: A Report on the carefully designed test rig which was built in order to establish the feasibility, and functioning under all flight conditions, of the complex fuel system of the E10/44, Attacker, single‐seater fighter

A. Black, D.J. Stewart, G. Powell

THE considerable difficulties encountered in designing a test rig which would allow of unbroken fuel supply from tanks whose attitude was being changed continuously was…

The Design of Simplified Structures for Low‐Cost Aeroplanes

THIS paper is an analysis of production problems of airframes considering them as problems of structural design. Its object is to suggest new theories for the analysis of air load…

Spring Tabs: A Review of their Development and Application, Together with an Outline of the Design Data Involved

F.B. Baker

The first step in calculating stick force is to modify the wind tunnel hinge moment curves. This is done by obtaining a curve for b1 at various incidences, and then altering the…

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 United States National…

Welding in the U.S. Aircraft Industry: A French Production Engineer's Views on the Position of Welding in America

R. Grimaud

THE importance of the electrodes has been realized in America and the number used is surprisingly large.

Simplifying the Drilling of Marked Off Holes

H. Moore

ALTHOUGH the standard procedure for marking off the positions of drilled holes is well known there are some aspects that deserve special attention. Chief among these, perhaps, is…

Profile Turning: German and English Methods of Machining Cams and Similar Profiles

THE machining of profiles on such pieces as the cams of internal‐combustion engine camshafts presents a problem which can be solved in two ways. The original method was to attempt…

Trade Announcements

This subsidiary of the Fairey Aviation Company Limited, of which Mr. J. Ballantyne is Managing Director, has opened separate offices at 29 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.2…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an airplane, an aileron, a flap a differential mechanism mounted for swinging movement and including a crank system operatively carried thereby, a push‐pull rod connecting said…