Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 21 Issue 4
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An International JournalTable of contents
France Resurgent
DURING the last two years we have devoted considerable space in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING to various aspects of French aeronautical activities in a number of articles written by our…
Rivet Flexibility and Load Diffusion: How Strength and Stiffness of Rivets Affect the Structure, with a Discussion of the Relative Efficiency of Rivets and Spot Welds
E.H. MansfieldTHE problem of load diffusion from a boom into a stiffened sheet structure has been considered by many writers. The solutions obtained lead to an infinite shear stress at a point…
Some Aspects of the French Aircraft Industry: A Review of the Present Position, and of the Results Achieved since the War, by the Technical Editor of our French Contemporary ‘L'Air’
André CharriouAT the present time, it is depressing to write an article on the French Aircraft Industry. At the end of World War I, it was the first in the world and the famous names of the…
Determining the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Flying Boats: A Paper Presented by F. W. S. Locke, Jr., at the VII International Congress of Applied Mechanics, London, September 1948, Describing New Simplified Methods of Obtaining Data during Flight Tests
THE usual methods for obtaining data on the hydrodynamic characteristics of flying boats during flight tests involve motion pictures of an instrument panel and records of…
The Strength of Jacks in Compression: Methods Suitable for Determining the Compressive Strength of Jacks Which May Be Locked Internally or Externally
P. Person, D. SaundersTHE strength criterion for hydraulic and pneumatic jacks usually occurs under compression and the methods for determining this strength and the critical load from stability…
Solution of Simple Simultaneous Equations: An Explanation of the Cross Multiplication System that can be used where the Arithmetic is Heavy
G.R. BrailsfordSUPPOSE that we wish to solve the two equations:
Weight Estimation of Metal Wings: An Attempt to Combine, in the Form of a Simple Formula, the Parameters Governing the Weight of a Metal Wing
G.K. GatesTHE need for accuracy in estimating the component weights of project designs cannot be over‐emphasized, forming, as they do, an important part of the stressing and performance…
The Nord Norecrin: An Account by the Technical Editor of the Structure of the Most Widely Used French Post‐War Light Aeroplane and of the Manufacturing Methods at Les Mureaux
RECENTLY, through the courtesy of the Societé Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Nord, we had the opportunity of visiting their factory at Les Mureaux (Seine‐et‐Oise)…
The Annual Meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences
WILL ROGERS, the great American humorist used to say, ‘All I know is what I read in the papers’. It would not be true to say that the daily press will tell us all that the…
Research Reports and Memoranda
Under this heading arc published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Notes of the United States National…
Trade Announcements
Airspeed Limited of Christchurch Aerodrome, Hampshire, announces that Major Hereward de Havilland, D.S.O., hasjoined the Board of Directors of the Company and he and Mr J. Liddell…
U.S. Patent Specifications
These details and drawings of patents granted in the United States are taken, by permission of the Department of Commerce, from the ‘Official Gazette of the United States Patent…
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- Prof Phil Webb