Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 50 Issue 7

An Evolutionary Approach to the Design of Flight Decks for Future Civil Transport Aircraft

L.F. Bateman, CEng, MRAes

This paper discusses a programme of work being carried out jointly by the British Aircraft Corporation and Hawker Siddeley Aviation, into the design of flight decks for future…

The Promise of Tilt Rotor

Tommy H. Thomason

Tilt rotor aircraft will add new dimensions to corporate and charter air transportation beginning in the 1980s or 1990s. The tilt rotor combines the VTOL capability of the…

Large Electroformed Nickel Moulds for Aircraft Parts

Peter Spiro

Although some earlier expectations of widespread use of glass reinforced resin for (stressed skin) parts of aircraft were not fulfilled (quality control difficulty with a hand…

COMED — The cockpit display of the future

E.W. Hare

COMED is an acronym derived from Combined Map and Electronic Display. Topographical information recorded in full‐colour on 35 mm film can be displayed on the screen of COMED…

A VFW‐Fokker Technology Letter

New designs and materials for lighter and more economic aircraft. The focus of VFW‐Fokker's technological programmes includes the application of new designs and new materials to…

Goodbye Technology … Farewell Future

Perry Pascarella

Fears and confusion about technology are posing a threat to America's innovative spirit and the freedom from which it stems.

Let's put Fuel Efficiency into perspective

John P. Dow, Bill Murphy, Walter Kohlhoff

An examination of the ways of measuring the fuel efficiency of business jets, with emphasis on “real world” aerodynamics

News and views

The level of safety achieved in scheduled airline services in 1977 improved significantly over 1976, and was close to the record high safety level of 1975, according to…