Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 32 Issue 12

Backward Glance

IT has been a year of mixed fortunes for the British aircraft industry typified by several irritating disappointments, a number of resounding technical successes and an overall…

Lift of a Two‐Dimensional Cascade of Aerofoils: Simplified Method of Calculation Based on Schlichting's Theory

J.J. Wannenburg

A method is presented by means of which the lift coefficient of an arbitrary aerofoil in a two‐dimensional cascade is obtained explicitly in terms of a number of cascade…

Approximate Formulae for Flutter Prediction: With Particular Reference to Main Surface Flexure‐Torsion Flutter in the Transonic Region

W.G. Molyneux

On the basis of certain simplifying assumptions a general equation can be developed that provides an estimate of the flutter speed of a binary system. The equation includes…

Ducted Fans for Vertical Take‐off: Details of the Chance Vought System of Air Deflexion and Modulation Utilizing Turbojets and Articulated Flaps

THE Aeronautics Division of Chance Vought, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., have recently released details of their own particular concept of a vertical take‐off and landing aircraft which…

Eleventh International Astronautical Congress: Summaries of Some of the More Important Papers Given at the Congress Held at Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm, August 14–20, 1960

G.V.E. Thompson

Interstellar gas passing through the solar system may effect the interplanetary gas, planetary atmospheres and satellite orbits. Interaction of the interstellar and interplanetary…

S.A.E. National Aeronautic Meeting—I: Summaries of a Selection of the Papers Presented at the Meeting Held in Los Angeles, October 10–14, 1960

The design of the D.558 Skystreak in 1944 involved a full monocoque magnesium fuselage and there was a fear that a high‐temperature jet exhaust impinging on the structure might be…

Angle of Attack Indicator: Details of the Ferranti Airstream Direction Detector System Which Can Be Used to Sense Angle of Attack or Angle of Sideslip

THE main criterion for controlling the flight path of an aircraft should, of course, be the angle of attack. However, it is only recently that instruments have become available…

The Library Shelf

A.J.K., J.W.H., A.D.B., D.B.S.

Those who are acquainted with the other books in this series will know, on the whole, what to expect in this volume, which is on very similar lines. Very roughly, nearly a half of…

Research Reports and Memoranda

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

Auxiliary Equipment

A mechanically‐fired, cartridge‐actuated thruster has been developed by the Propellex Chemical Division of Chromalloy Corp., P.O. Box 187A, Edwardsville, III., U.S.A. Developed…

Research and Test Apparatus

A fifteen‐unit flexural creep test machine has been used by the Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle 24, Washington, U.S.A., to carry out a testing programme on a plastic laminate…

Tools for the Workshop

A small continuous furnace for the pre‐heating of non‐ferrous billets and slugs suitable for delivering to a press has been developed by Royee Electric Furnaces Ltd., Albert…

Month in the Patent Office

The fore‐body of the aircraft described in the parent Specification is, in plan form, a finely pointed triangle A B B in which the leading edges D, D lie within the straight lines…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a device of the character described there are; a fuselage, wings including first and second portions hingedly connected together, brackets having pins thereon mounted on each…