Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 32 Issue 11

Personalities with a Purpose

AT the beginning of October it was announced that the Pressed Steel Co. Ltd. were taking steps to form a subsidiary company to concentrate upon the design and manufacture of a new…

Design of a Pressurized Missile Body: Determination of the Skin Thickness of a Cylindrical Shell Under Axial Compression

D.S. Houghton, A.S.L. Chan

THE structural design of a long range ballistic missile or a space rocket vehicle is an intriguing problem. It is hardly necessary to stress the importance of achieving as light a…

Modern Trends in the Manipulation of Metals: Summaries of Papers Presented at the Institution of Production Engineers' Conference held at Brighton on October 12–14, 1960

C.G. Keil

THE paper began with a brief historical survey of the cold extrusion process since its first practical use over sixty years ago. The extrusion of special materials such as…

Estimation of Take‐off and Landing Airborne Paths: Simplified Method Involving Two Types of Manoeuvre

G.E. Rogerson

Two types of manoeuvre, in one of which lift coefficient and excess thrust are constant, and in the other of which speed is constant, are analysed. The analysis leads to simple…

New Plant for Rolling Aluminium: Details of the Expansion of Alcan Industries Ltd. Continuous Strip Mill at Rogerstone, Monmouthshire

C.G. Keil

IT was in September, 1950, that Alcan Industries Ltd. (or the Northern Aluminium Co. as it then was) opened the continuous strip mill at Rogerstone in South Wales. In March, 1958…

Second International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences: Summaries of a Selection of the Papers Presented at the Congress Held at the E.T.H., Zurich, Switzerland, September 12–16, 1960

D.J. Johns

A report is given on the above Congress which was attended by approximately 550 delegates from twenty‐seven countries. The sixty papers presented embraced the subjects of…

Supersonic Wind Tunnels: Details of the Two New High‐Speed Tunnels Operated by English Electric Aviation Ltd. at Wharton

C.G. Keil

ON October 19 the Minister of Aviation formally opened the two new high‐speed wind tunnels which have been constructed at Wharton, Lancashire, for English Electric Aviation Ltd.

The Library Shelf

A.D.Y., B.S.O., W.L.M., H.B.H., W.A.M.

The title of this volume is one that should bring an eager sparkle to the eyes of your aerodynamic friends. Both turbulence and heat transfer are topics of major practical…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Council, Reports and Technical Translations of the United States…

Research and Test Apparatus

Tiltman Langley Ltd. (originally Tiltman Langley Laboratories Ltd.) was established in 1947 to undertake research work into the basic strengths of materials for the Royal Aircraft…

Tools for the Workshop

Magco Ltd., Lake Works, Porchester, Hants, have recently produced a range of ‘Magcodrill’ magnetic drill‐stands which can be placed anywhere on a steel plate or any other…

Auxiliary Equipment

A new range of miniature multi‐contact connectors made to the rigorous requirements of MIL‐C.26500, have recently been announced by Amphenol (Great Britain) Ltd., Burgess Hill…

Month in the Patent Office

An aircraft intended for vertical take‐off and comprising an annular wing 1 surrounding and attached to a central fuselage 3, is provided with a supplementary load‐carrying…

U.S. Patent Specifications

An aircraft has a fuselage and a plurality of lifting surfaces, each of the lifting surfaces comprise a portion fixedly attached to the fuselage and a portion pivotally mounted on…