Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 30 Issue 6

The Statement

FOR many months the aircraft industry has been waiting for a promised statement by the Minister of Supply on the future of aircraft research and development. The Minister, as our…

The Support of an Aircraft for Ground Resonance Tests: A Survey of Available Methods

W.G. Molyneux

The current trend in ground resonance testing is aimed at providing aircraft modes of vibration appropriate to the free‐free condition. To achieve this objective the rigid body…

Tensor Analysis of Finite Rotations: Applications to Aircraft Manoeuvres, Variable Sweep Wings, Retractable Undercarriages

E.H. Bateman

IN Part I the motion of an aircraft, designated by the position‐tensor X, was considered relative to a fixed reference frame E. Now in our analysis of the motion of a wing…

Creep Deflexion and Stress Distribution in a Beam: Analysis for a Rectangular Beam Subjected to a Constant Bending Moment

W.J. Goodey

THE work of Johnson, Mathur and Henderson on the ‘Creep Deflexion of Magnesium Alloy Struts’ raised the question in the present writer's mind of the stress distribution in the…

Some Developments and Applications of Brittle Lacquers: A Survey of Published Work and Some Original Contributions

J.R. Linge

A PHOTOGRAPH of the fully developed crack pattern adjacent to the end bolts in a Perspex model of the rear spar root joint of the same blade is given in FIG. 35. Fatigue tests are…

Fourth Annual National Forum of the American Helicopter Society: A Report on Proceedings at the Meeting in Washington in April 1958

P.R. Payne

THE wise conventioner strives to become something of a connoisseur if he is to avoid a combination of dreary lectures and oppresive heat or cold.

The Library Shelf

J.K., C.R.D., M.C.W., M.A.P.

For one man adequately to cover the whole practical and theoretical field of rocket propulsion is well‐nigh impossible: in view of this, the present work has been compiled from…

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 special machine tool had to be evolved by the David Brown Automobile Gear Division, Hudders‐field, in order to cut the elliptical gears, illustrated in FIG. 1, eight pairs of…

Research and Test Apparatus

Data from North American Aviation's Trisonic Wind Tunnel will be collected and processed by an instrumentation system developed by the company's Autonetics Division.

Month in the Patent Office

A jet engine has a nozzle movable between operative and inoperative positions, and a number of movable thrust reversing sections which normally lie in inoperative positions…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In an aircraft including a tunnel‐shaped aerodynamic component of substantial thickness having two walls, to wit an internal one and an external one, along which two distinct…