Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 24 Issue 2

An Analogical Approach

WE must express our sense of the great obligation that is due to MESSRS C. A. PARSONS AND COMPANY LIMITED for their public‐spiritedness in releasing for the benefit of engineers…

Thermal Shock Tests on Gas Turbine Materials: A Study of the Effects of Severe Temperature Fluctuations on Rotor Blades and Nozzle Segments

M. Bentele, Dr.‐Ing., C.S. Lowthian

UNDER steady load conditions, materials in gas turbines are subject to various forms of static and alternating stresses. Changes in the operating conditions such as starting, load…

The Analysis of Fuselage Frames: Solution by the Elastic Centre Method of Problems in the Design of Built‐in Frames and Complete Fuselage Rings

William Morse

The work involved in solving certain fixed‐fixed arch problems can be considerably reduced by adopting the classic centre method.

The Rate of Climb of Turbo‐Jet Aircraft: A Method of Analysing Test Data to Establish the Climb Performance of an Aircraft

D.C. Whittley

CORRECTION of night test climb data to account for departure of the variables from standard or specified conditions presents a major problem owing to the large number of…

Elastic Instability of a Swept Panel: Analysis of the Buckling Tendency of a Panel of the Top Skin of a Swept Wing

E.H. Mansfield

THE introduction of swept wings for certain high speed aircraft has brought with it a variety of fresh structural problems. The aero‐dynamic requirements of a smooth wing surface…

The Library Shelf

W.J. Duncan

Flutter is a species of oscillatory instability affecting parts of aircraft, such as their wings. However, in as much as an aircraft is a single system, it would always be more…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Memoranda of the United States…

British Standard Specifications

B.S. 1730 provides for one grade of low carbon and one grade of carbon‐molybdenum steel furnace tubes which have been based on the standard A.161 of the American Society for…

Tools for the Workshop

Today's high speed aircraft must have external surfaces as smooth as possible, and in order to reduce drag to a minimum it is usual to employ flush riveting for all external skin…

Month in the Patent Office

A blade for a helicopter or like rotor carries a propulsive duct of the continuous flow or intermittent type at its outer extremity, the centre line of the duct being inwardly and…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aircraft control system, aileron means and a reversible motor therefor, a variable resistor operated by said motor, a roll gyro and a variable resistor operated thereby…