Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 7 Issue 11

The Ice‐Formation Danger: A Phenomenon that is of Increasing Importance

IT is reported that SIR CHARLES KINGFORD SMITH'S latest big flight was abandoned and his return to England necessitated by the formation of ice on the main plane and tail. When…

Air Racing in America: Design Rules Laid Down by the Technical Committee of the Professional Racing Pilots' Association

Alexander Klemin

GREAT things had been expected of the American National Air Races this year, with many new racing machines to the fore. The Hughes high‐wing monoplane, equipped with a 1,000 h.p…

Landplane Take‐off Weights: An Examination of the Design and Other Factors which Decide the Limits of Overloading

Masaiti Kondô

ALL the performances as well as the strength of an aeroplane are reduced by overloading or increase in gross weight. But, apart from the strength considerations, the maximum…

The Prevention of Ice Accretion: The Causes and Various Methods of Prevention, with a Description of the R.A.E. “Anticer”

B. Lockspeiser

FLYING, in common with all means of transport, is affected by adverse weather conditions, but the necessity of aeroplanes maintaining flying speed introduces a major difficulty of…

Semi‐Cantilever Wings: A Mathematical Analysis, Checked by Experimental Tests, of the Free Oscillations in the System

C. Pasqualini, D. Biro

IN the following, the free flexional oscillations of a monoplane's semi‐cantilever wing are given, taking into consideration the inner and outer parts of the strut as two systems…

The Cooling of Radial Engines: A Further Report on the Research Work of the United Aircraft, Vought and Pratt Whitney Group

J.M. Shoemaker, T.B. Rhines, H.H. Sargent

THE remarkable strides made by designers of commercial and military aircraft during recent years have been most strikingly evidenced by the ever‐increasing performance of their…

Some Books Recently Received: Seaplane Design for Students—M. Mignet on Simplified Control for Aeroplanes

This book, which is intended mainly for the use of students, deals with water properties of floats and hulls. Two chapters are devoted to the basic principles of flotation units…

Research Reports and Memoranda

Under this heading are published regularly abstracts of all Reports and Memoranda of the Aeronautical Research Committee, Reports and Technical Notes of the U.S. National Advisory…

Air Ministry Contracts

Orders Placed during the Months of July and August this Year

Month in the Patent Office: A Selection of the More Important Aircraft and Engine Specifications Published Recently

A casing 1 encloses conical chambers 6, 7 and has an end portion 50 enclosing a double frustoconical chamber 52, 53, the space between which and the casing is filled with sound…