Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 29 Issue 10

Show and Aftermath

THE industry's show is over again. Inexorably it had grown larger and louder than its predecessors. This year it was notable in that for the first time we were introduced to the…

Farnborough 1957

Photographs of a selection of exhibits

Some Effects of Kinetic Heating on the Stiffness of Thin Wings: A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of Thermal Stresses on the Torsional and Flexural Stiffness of Thin Solid Wings

S.L. Kochanski, J.H. Argyris

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the effects of kinetic healing at supersonic speeds on the torsional and flexural stiffnesses of thin solid wings. The main…

Design Notes for Glass Reinforced Plastics: Practical Notes for the Draughtsman on the Use of Low‐pressure Laminates

J.H. Wright, R.D. Dowman

Reinforced Plastics have been widely used in the Aircraft Industry over the past ten years, but its application is still treated as something of a special field. The purpose of…

The Library Shelf

This book is the third volume in a series intended to provide a basis for instruction of graduate non‐specialist students in the technology of guided missiles. It is divided into…

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…

Month in the Patent Office

An aircraft flying control includes an accelerometer 2 arranged to detect vertical acceleration of the hinge line of a control surface 4 and to pass a signal proportional to said…

U.S. Patent Specifications

Covina, and Robert L. Noland, Duarte, Calif., assignors, by mesne assignments, to Aerojet‐General Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio. Application April 15, 1949.