Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 30 Issue 11
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An International JournalTable of contents
Plastics Developments
THE British Plastics Federation held a conference on reinforced plastics at Brighton on October 21–24. It is intended to publish a report on this conference, with summaries of the…
Experimental Model Techniques and Equipment for Flutter Investigations: A Survey of British Practice
W.G. MolyneuxAn outline is given of the uses of flutter models as an aid to the designer in the avoidance of flutter. Details are given of the different types and methods of construction that…
Natural Vibration Frequencies of Flexible Rotor Blades: A Method Based on Consideration of Perfectly Flexible Blades
J. Lockwood TaylorHELICOPTER rotor blades, as is well known, are subjected to alternating bending stresses at various multiples of the rotor r.p.m. when the aircraft is flying forward. One of the…
The Recovery of an Aeroplane from a High Speed Dive: A Critical Manoeuvre Examined by a Step by Step Method and by Approximations
A.D. Young, S. NeumarkDetailed step by step calculations have been made of the recovery with fixed elevator from a high speed dive for three different aircraft; for these calculations measured wind…
Ninth International Astronautical Congress: Summaries of Some of the More Important Papers given at the Congress Held in Amsterdam, August 25–30, 1958
G.Y.E. ThompsonAuthor's preference for use of term magnetofluidmechanics instead of magnctohydromechanics; résumé of main principles; applications of the science in astronautics.
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
Mortimer Engineering Co., 204–206 Acton Lane, Harlesden, London, N.W.10, are agents for a device of Swedish manufacture to make possible tapping on a drilling machine. Depth is…
Research and Test Apparatus
A new range of Froude hydraulic dynamometers, designed for the testing of engines developing both high powers and high speeds, is now being put into production by Heenan & Froude…
Auxiliary Equipment
British Oxygen Gases Ltd., Spencer House, St. James' Place, S.W.1, have developed a standard range of fully transportable oxygen plants which can be easily operated for short or…
New Materials
Harvey Aluminium, of Torrance, California, have announced that they are producing titanium castings commercially. A closed consumable‐electrode furnace is used with high vacuum or…
Month in the Patent Office
An auxiliary jet propulsion engine for use with a rotary wing system comprising a casing of rectangular cross‐section and of streamlined shape except for approximately rectangular…
U.S. Patent Specifications
An annular combustion chamber having air jackets around its inner and outer walls, and having in combination a plurality of liquid fuel nozzles mounted in equi‐spaced relationship…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb