Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 45 Issue 9

Horizon

A sonics system, capable of receiving and processing signals from a wide range of sonobuoy types, including a new long‐range buoy, is being developed by Marconi‐Elliott Avionic…

X‐22A—the total in‐flight simulator

JOHN L. BEILMAN

MANY AIRCRAFT built in the last six decades have been deficient (or even failures) in accomplishing their primary missions because of unsuitable stability and/or control…

Alternating current starter generators

D.O. BURNS, FIEE BScEng

AN ALTERNATOR directly coupled to a spool of a jet propulsion engine produces a variable frequency of ac supply depending on the speed range between ground idle and take‐off rpm.

The use of single crystal blades

D.A. PETROV, A.T. TUMANOV

THE USE OF SINGLE‐CRYSTAL BLADES in gas‐turbine engines have considerable advantages over conventionally cast blades since they do not possess grain boundaries which in…

Airport Installations

Eighteen purpose‐designed lighting units, have been built by Industrolite Ltd, to the specification of the Department of the Environment for the military ATC operators at the West…

Advantages of a fixed ground supply system

WITH THE RAPID GROWTH of world airline investment in powered ground equipment, much closer attention is being given to the development of fixed rather than mobile ramp services…

Increasing efficiency

Previously detailed assembly inspection of a wide variety of printed wiring modules for Decca Radar's display, transmitter and auxiliary units involved the expensive and time…

Equipment and materials

The DC‐6 noise attenuating headset reduces noise levels to 8dB at 125Hz level and 30dB at 1,000Hz level.

Personalities in the news

Six new material specifications for re‐melting stock and castings have been published in the aerospace HC series of British Standards. They specify the requirements, including…