Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 8 Issue 6

The New Airship: A Successful Addition to the Zeppelin Fleet

ON the day that this number is posted to subscribers it will be exactly five years and nine months since the tragic loss of R. 101. With her perished many irreplaceable scientists…

An Electric Steelyard Balance: Six‐Component Balance with Remote Autographic Recording Installed in the New D.V.L. Wind Tunnel

M. Kramer, J.E.W. Ginger, R. Hounsfield

THE following is a description of the steelyard balance used in the construction of the six‐component balance at the wind tunnel of the German Aeronautical Research Institute…

Some Books Recently Received

The aeronautical engineer is all the time struggling to improve aircraft performance. His problem is essentially the attainment of maximum economy—to get the maximum duty out of…

The Zeppelin Airship LZ 129: A Full Description of the Latest Product of Friedrichshaven

W.E. Dörr

WORK on the design of the LZ 129 was started in 1928 when the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin decided to build a large airship suitable for the S. American traffic. The first design bore…

Aeronautical Progress 1930–1936: A Review of Scientific Progress Given in the James Forrest Lecture

E.F. Relf

I CAN hardly say how much I appreciate the honour your Council has conferred on me in asking me to deliver the James Forrest lecture this year. I realise fully the difficulty of…

Carburation Practice in Aero‐Engines: A History of the Development of Carburettors for Special Aircraft Requirements

F.C. Stokes

WITH the cessation of hostilities in 1918 there occurred a lull in the production and development of aero‐engines in all the leading countries, owing to there being small demand…

Research Reports and Memoranda

M Alayrac gives here the further results of his investigations of irrotational three dimensional flow of which he has already written in Publications Scientifiques Nos. 3 and 13 …

Air Ministry Official Notices

Airscrews to the undermentioned designs have been approved for certain types of aircraft, and additions should be made to the appropriate Notices to Aircraft Owners and Ground…

The Manufacture of Alloy Stampings: The Production of Stampings for Crankcases, Pistons, Connecting Rods and Airscrew Blades

THE increasing demand for the mass production of light but strong articles to very close limits has caused a big advance in the technique of drop stamping, which is rapidly…

U.S. Patent Specifications

In a retractable landing gear for aircraft a cantilever strut carrying a wheel for ground contact, a sleeve swingably mounted on said aircraft within which said strut slidably…

Month in the Patent Office

Aircraft landing‐gear includes links 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 articulated together as shown, and a further link 11, which incorporates a shock‐absorber 12 is articulated to the links 4, 5…