Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 25 Issue 5

A Lesson from Sweden

IT may be remembered that last December we published a description, culled from Saab Sonics, the house journal of SVENSKA AEROPLAN AKTIEBOLAGET, of a new high‐speed wind‐tunnel…

Wing Structures of Future Aircraft: A Survey of Materials, Methods and Possible Configurations

Olle Ljungström

IT is the purpose of this article to present some ideas about future trends in wing design for high speed aircraft and to discuss briefly some of the many difficult problems which…

The Dowty Spill‐Burner Fuel System: A Detailed Description of the System, its Components and Operation, Developed Around the Spill Burner

DOWTY Equipment Limited began the study of fuel systems for gas turbines in 1944, following the adoption by the de Havilland Engine Company of the Dowty Live Line Pump as the most…

The Warping of Thin Shells: A Method of Calculation Derived and Applied to Particular Cases

William Morse

IT is well known that cross‐sections of a thin‐walled shell, unconstrained at the ends, do not necessarily remain plane under the action of an applied torque, but may undergo…

The Library Shelf

A.E.J., J.R.P., H.D.H., P.L.T.

The collection of thirteen reports in the first volume are concerned largely with theoretical research on the strength and deformation of metals carried out by Doctors Mott, Hill…

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…

Shell Mouldings‐a New Foundry Technique: A Brief Account of Developments in the Production of Castings Since the Introduction of Synthetic Materials

THE process known as Shell Moulding is the most important of a number of changes which have been brought about by the introduction of plastics into foundry technique. These…

British Standards

This standard specifics the requirements for the following four ranges of cables for use for wiring of aircraft circuits where the potential between conductors, or between a…

Month in the Patent Office

An aircraft wing comprises one or more sections each foldablc about a fore‐and‐aft substantially horizontal axis and a power‐operated linearly moving member which works in a…

U.S. Patent Specifications

A gas turbine power plant comprising a compressor assembly consisting of a compressor rotor and an enclosing stationary structure, a turbine assembly consisting of a turbine rotor…