Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 29 Issue 1

Matrix Analysis of the Circular Conical Fuselage: A Development and Revision of an Earlier Paper to Include the case of Cut‐outs

W.J. Goodey

METHOD for the stress analysis of the circular conical fuselage with flexible frames, subjected to a fairly general type of load distribution, was recently developed by the…

On the Mechanism of Fatigue: A Discussion of a Paper by Thompson, Wadsworth and Louat, Philosophical Magazine, February 1956

F.R. Shanley

THE paper by Thompson, Wadsworth and Louat on ‘The Origin of Fatigue Fracture in Copper’ contains much valuable information which, together with other recent work of the same…

Honeycomb Sandwich Construction for Supersonic Aircraft: A Survey of Materials and Methods for High Duty Sandwich Construction

Bryan R. Noton

Sandwich construction with aluminium honeycomb cores bonded to faces with the adhesive films Redux 775, 775R and Bloomingdale FM‐47 is discussed. Drawings showing its applications…

Selection of Aluminium Alloys by Fatigue Properties: A Method of Comparing the Performance of Different Alloy Types under Fatigue Conditions for which Complete Data are not Available

R.G. Ward

WHEN selecting alloys for use in structures whose life would be limited by fatigue, the choice is greatly aided by consideration of fatigue tests on simple test‐pieces in which…

S.A.E. National Aeronautic Meeting: Summaries of the Papers Presented to the Meeting Held at Los Angeles, October 2–6, 1956

The pressure control valve is a possible means of overcoming the effects of compliance between a hydraulic servo and its load. The valve consists of two stages; an open‐centre…

The Library Shelf

W.A.M., J.H., S.L.B., D.B.S., J.E.D.

This is a reprint of a book that was first published in 1932. As there has been no revision of the contents since the original publication, no work done in the last twenty‐five…

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

Angula Engineering Co. Ltd., Glaskin Mews, Pembury Road, Clapton, London, E.5 have introduced a straightedge of new construction for the drawing board. As shown in FIG. 1 the…

Research and Test Apparatus

In order to procure a sequence of superimposed still photographs showing the tumbling or gyrations of a pilot's ejection scat, a droppable fuel tank, or bombs after release from a…

Month in the Patent Office

The blades 16 of a torque‐compensating rotor for a helicopter are connected by a pair of parallel flexible steel strips 28 which are arranged to be substantially undeflected when…

U.S. Patent Specifications

An axial‐flow blower for delivering cooling air in large volume, comprising a generally cylindrical rotor and a fixed coaxial housing spaced thereabout, open at its front end for…