Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 45 Issue 4
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An International JournalTable of contents
Horizon
Mascot of the Paris Air Show is to be Santos Dumont, who achieved the first powered flight in Europe and was born a hundred years ago. Several events are being organised to…
Optimising the shape
PIERRE SARTRETHE ECONOMIC and operational efficiency of any supersonic airliner depends on the successful reconciliation of two conflicting aerodynamic requirements: good control and handling…
Changes in the flight deck transparencies
W. ROBERTS, R.S. BRUCEDURING THE DEVELOPMENT of Concorde from prototype aeroplanes through pre‐production to the full production standard, many design changes have been introduced to the 16 flight deck…
Electronic safety test replaces radioactive test source
D.W. GUERINWHEN THE PROGRAMME for the development of Concorde was put in hand 10 years ago, it was appreciated that there were potential problems associated with the radiation levels at high…
Generating, oxygen and other emergency systems
This emergency generating system was first fitted on the 01 and 02 pre‐production Concordes and will be installed on the production aircraft. Initial design work commenced in 1967…
Reducing noise with type 28 nozzle
THE INTRODUCTION of supersonic aircraft into civil transport operations will represent a significant milestone in the evolution of long range transportation systems. One important…
Power plant instrumentation
The production Concorde aircraft is now being equipped with the 2ATI numeral/pointer engine instruments of Smith's Industries Ltd. The panel of 20 primary engine parameters is…
Hardware integration and improved operation of the flight control system
D.G. CLEWSTHE SYSTEM is a joint design and manufacturing responsibility of Marconi‐Elliott Avionic Systems Ltd, a GEC‐Marconi Electronics company, and SFENA (Société Française d'Equipements…
A fourth air conditioning group
R.B. SHERBOURNEAS CONCORDE HAS GROWN considerably in size and capacity since the prototype, the air conditioning system has correspondingly been revised and together with refinements to the air…
HS 1182 — design for defence in the 1980's
THE HS 1182 multi‐purpose ground attack‐trainer has been designed to offer good handling characteristics throughout its flight envelope, slow approach and landing speeds suitable…
Airport Installations
The ERM 86 C millimetric pulse weather radar is developed for cloud and precipitation observation. With a wavelength of 8mm and peak power 65kW, it presents, on a conventional PPI…
Airport handling of Concorde
ROBERT TANTHE INVITATION to handle Concorde was accepted by Singapore Airlines in May 1972, following which advance arrangements were made in order that it would be handled not only…
Equipment and materials
Miniature switches with rockers and paddle levers have electrical characteristics similar to the basic range with contact ratings (resistive load) of .2 amp at 250Vac and 5amp at…
Books and literature
This is the collection of papers read at the 1967 Melbourne symposium which had, as the main theme, design, economic and operational aspects. These are further summarised in two…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb