Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 45 Issue 12
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An International JournalTable of contents
Horizon
Metal of the fan‐jet HS 146 will be cut in the New Year and already the full scale mock‐up is complete. Able to operate from 4,000ft strips and with superior climb and terrain…
A 300 B static and fatigue tests
F.W. VANNTHE STATIC AND FATIGUE TESTS on the A300B Airbus structure are being performed simultaneously at a number of sites in Europe. The main static test specimen is located in Toulouse…
Lasers —: ranger and marked target seeker
STEPHEN D. LAZENBYEXPLOITATION OF LASER TECHNOLOGY was begun by Ferranti Ltd in the early 1960's by developing and producing gas laser devices for the commercial market. Military laser work evolved…
Lasers —: strain measurement of large surfaces
R. LARRY JACOBA STRAIN MEASUREMENT SYSTEM designed for the study of strain gradients and contours in large surfaces such as sheet glass is capable of scanning the entire surface, making…
Models in the design of fuel systems
W.J. RIXWHEN DEVELOPING SYSTEMS for a new aircraft, analytical and drawing techniques are used as far as possible to solve the various technical problems but there inevitably comes a…
The selection and design of springs
R.S. ROPERA SPRING is defined as a device for storing and retaining energy. This definition is very much a simplification and every designer should have some idea of what is involved in…
Titanium flamecutting reduces airframe costs
H.M. GALLAGHERALTHOUGH OXY‐GAS FLAMECUTTING has been in use by steel fabricators, mainly in the shipbuilding and chemical engineering industries, for some 50 years, the adoption of this…
Airport Installations
The next generation of air traffic control equipment for Canadian airports, to be produced by CAE Electronics Ltd, is to be a modularised system with a high degree of commonality…
International opportunities in airport design
PETER MASEFIELDONE OF THE major consequences of the continued, steady, growth of air transport throughout the world is the growing requirement for airports development. Not only are existing…
Increasing efficiency
In BOAC's standard maintenance programme, the blue ‘cheat line’ which extends along the entire fuselage of both Boeings is stripped and repainted every other year. On both…
Equipment and materials
The Talydata graphical display system and modular electronics and recorders for use on all future RPI Talyrond roundness measuring instruments comprises a small, very fast…
Books and literature
This is, in effect, an illustrated directory of the aircraft types built by the various German constructors who now compose the MBB triumvirate.
Personalities in the news
Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Rosier, GCB, CBE has been appointed a director of BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (PRESTON) LTD, and will act as military adviser to the military…
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- Prof Phil Webb