Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 27 Issue 3
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Testing Times
BY a coincidence, the report of the Court of Inquiry into the two Comet accidents in January and April 1954 is published just as we are on the point of going to press with this…
Flight Flutter Tests on the Gloster Javelin
H.G.S. PeacockDURING a test flight on a prototype Javelin aircraft, a flutter incident occurred involving the loss of both elevators. The pilot was fortunately able to continue flying the…
Third Aircraft Production Conference at Southampton
THE conference opened with the paper by Mr Woodward‐Nutt, which, together with the other papers, is summarized below. After the first session the conference luncheon was held, and…
Corrosion Protection for Aircraft Wheels: An Account of Research Work in the U.S.A. on the Anti‐Corrosive Properties of Lubricants for Tapered Roller Bearings
A.G. ThomsonSOME four or five years ago, the Wright Air Development Centre, Wright‐Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, began to receive an increasing number of complaints of corrosion of wheel…
Energy Theorems and Structural Analysis: A Generalized Discourse with Applications on Energy Principles of Structural Analysis Including the Effects of Temperature and Non‐Linear Stress‐Strain Relations Part I. General Theory
J.H. ArgyrisHAVING discussed in the standard longhand notation the main ideas and methods for the calculation of redundant structures on the basis of forces as unknowns we now turn our…
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…
Auxiliary Equipment
A new autopilot designed for supersonic aircraft has been announced by Lear Incorporated. Designated the L‐10, this flight control system meets latest military requirements with…
Month in the Patent Office
An automatic release device, more particularly for a brake parachute, consists of a part‐spherical body 1 housing a cylinder 8 and piston 11, to the rod 12 of which is coupled, by…
U.S. Patent Specifications
In an aircraft having a sustaining rotor incorporating a rotor blade pivotally mounted on drag, flapping and pitch change pivots, with flapping pivot spaced radially outwardly…
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- Prof Phil Webb