Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 27 Issue 11

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An International Journal
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Table of contents

A Plan for the Industry

THE Fabian Society has recently issued, at one shilling, a booklet by Mr Frank Beswick, m.p., entitled ‘Plan for the Aircraft Industry’ which we have decided to use as the theme…

The Stiff‐hinged Helicopter Rotor: A New Form of Rotor Giving Improved Performance and Stability

P.R. Payne

THE continual development of helicopter rotor systems has so far resulted in the use of about six main types, and it will be of value briefly to recapitulate their advantages and…

Progress in Research on High Speed Flow: A Survey of Advances and Problems in the Study of High Speed Flow Part I.—Normal Supersonic Flow

Maurice Holt

INVESTIGATIONS into the nature of high speed flow have now been in progress alto‐gether for thirty years, and at a particularly intensive rate during the past ten years. Many of…

A Rational Approach to Welding Titanium: A Note on Argon‐Arc Butt Welding of Commercially Pure Titanium Sheet without Filler Rod

K.L.C. Legg

SUCCESSFUL welding of commercially pure titanium and its alloys has, so far, been difficult to achieve, and this is largely due to the affinity this metal has for embrittling…

The Library Shelf

Like its companion volume, Aircraft Mainten‐ance and Repair (reviewed in the June 1955 issue of Aircraft Engineering), this book is distinguished by the high quality of its…

Reflections on the Interrelation of Helicopter and Heliport Design: A Paper read before the Congress held at Rotterdam, July 27—29, 1955, under the auspices of the Stichting Rotterdam Helicopter Syndicaat

J.S. Shapiro

THE reason for using the helicopter in transport is neither its performance nor its own cost, but the nature and design of its operating site. To separate the two, as is sometimes…

Ninth Annual Conference of the Stress Analysis Group: Summaries of Selected Papers given at Sheffield on September 28—30, 1955

THE Stress Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics held its ninth annual conference at Stephenson Hall, University of Sheffield, on September 28, 29 and 30. Summaries of some…

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…

Tools for the Workshop

The visual examination of the interior of hollow parts calls for an instrument which will illuminate the part being inspected and advance the image of it towards the eye. Such an…

Month in the Patent Office

A seal for the canopy 13 of a pressurized cockpit consists of an inflatable tube 23 disposed in a channel 20a secured to the cockpit framing and having wall portions 21, 22, the…

U.S. Patent Specifications

A lifting surface or body, such as an aeroplane wing, adapted to be driven through fluids, such as air; said lifting body having a plan view form such that the leading and…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb