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Publication date: 1 January 1929

W.S. Farren

THE year which has seen the twenty‐fifth anniversary of the first flight in a mechanically propelled aeroplane, and the tenth birthday of the Royal Air Force, has been marked by…

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THE year which has seen the twenty‐fifth anniversary of the first flight in a mechanically propelled aeroplane, and the tenth birthday of the Royal Air Force, has been marked by notable technical achievements. It leaves us with good reasons to expect even better of 1929. While our hopes for a speed record were disappointed, on the analysed figures of the Supermarine S.5's achievement there is reason to believe that, on a longer course with effective provision against the unsatisfactory preliminary dive now allowed, the machine as it stands would beat all comers. The Fairey monoplane with which it is hoped to achieve something remarkable in duration is now flying. Details, even of the general proportions and weights of the machine, are still secret. One could write a great deal on the policy of secrecy in such matters. Attack is easier than defence, but defence by silence is effective up to a point, though it suggests an inability to depend on merits.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 1 no. 1
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ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 October 1935

W.J. Evans and E.M. Butcher

VARIOUS methods have been devised for dealing with the effects of the articulated rod in aero‐engines. In an article by E. J. Fearn, published in the Journal of the Royal

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VARIOUS methods have been devised for dealing with the effects of the articulated rod in aero‐engines. In an article by E. J. Fearn, published in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1927, a method is given which involves the representation of the piston displacement as a Fourier series. This can be twice differentiated to give the acceleration. Later in the same journal a graphical method is quoted by W. S. Farren. In the 1928 volume Fearn derives a somewhat involved series for the inertia torque on the crankshaft due to the reciprocating mass.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 7 no. 10
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Publication date: 1 April 1945

EVER since the days of LORD BEAVERBROOK (“big bombs— beautiful bombs”) the bomb has, in the mind of the British public, been surrounded by an aura of glamour and each larger…

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EVER since the days of LORD BEAVERBROOK (“big bombs— beautiful bombs”) the bomb has, in the mind of the British public, been surrounded by an aura of glamour and each larger missile that has been produced has been received with a flood of lyrical eulogies in the Press. We would not wish it to be thought that by writing in this way ,we are belittling the ingenuity of those like MR. B. N. WALLIS (on whom we are delighted to see has been conferred the honour of Fellowship of the Royal Society, in common with another great figure in British Aeronautics MR. W. S. FARREN—warm congratulations to both) who have successfully surmounted the many technical snags in designing successively larger bombs. Indeed, it is quite obvious that aerodynamically their latest effort, the 22,000‐pounder, is a big advance on any of its recent predecessors—themselves brobdingnagian in size—to which it is the immediate successor since in shape it more resembles the smaller bombs of earlier war days. It is fitted with the most interesting aerofoil‐sectioned fins which must result in remarkably steady flight and is of a streamline shape that must give it an extremely small drag factor, apart from allowing it to fit astonishingly snugly along the underside of the Lancaster fuselage.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 17 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 October 1970

William Farren

THE year which has seen the twenty‐fifth anniversary of the first flight in a mechanically propelled aeroplane, and the tenth birthday of the Royal Air Force, has been marked by…

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THE year which has seen the twenty‐fifth anniversary of the first flight in a mechanically propelled aeroplane, and the tenth birthday of the Royal Air Force, has been marked by notable technical achievements. It leaves us with good reasons to expect even better of 1929.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 42 no. 10
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Publication date: 1 January 1930

W.S. Farren

TO the originator of the policy of advancing aviation by making the country “air‐minded” 1929 must seem, as he looks back on it, an outstanding year. And of all the items that…

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TO the originator of the policy of advancing aviation by making the country “air‐minded” 1929 must seem, as he looks back on it, an outstanding year. And of all the items that call for record in the review probably the most significant is the start from Croydon on March 30 of the first Imperial Air Mail to India, later developed into a passenger‐carrying service. Like all new enterprises it has met with criticism. The mail takes eight days to reach Karachi by air, three days more by land to Bombay, and longer to other parts of India. It must be met by an internal Indian Air Mail.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 2 no. 1
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Publication date: 1 July 1932

W.S. Farren

Mr. Pye's book sets a high standard for those who are to follow him in this series. It consists of seven chapters and some 250 pages admirably printed on excellent paper. It has…

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Mr. Pye's book sets a high standard for those who are to follow him in this series. It consists of seven chapters and some 250 pages admirably printed on excellent paper. It has an adequate list of references, well arranged tables of relevant physical constants, and a good index. It abounds in numerical illustrations, but has no “examples.” It contains no enigmatic “working drawings.” It sticks to the point, which is to present a logical account of the principles which underlie the design and operation of the internal combustion engine.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 4 no. 7
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Publication date: 1 August 1952

Mr N. McPherson, General Manager, has been appointed a Director of Aluminium Corporation Ltd, which is a subsidiary of the British Aluminium Company Limited, of Norfolk House, St…

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Mr N. McPherson, General Manager, has been appointed a Director of Aluminium Corporation Ltd, which is a subsidiary of the British Aluminium Company Limited, of Norfolk House, St. James's Square, S.W.I.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 24 no. 8
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Publication date: 1 July 1932

W.S. Farren

IN a lecture before the Royal Aeronautical Society in December 1931, the author demonstrated the use of a wind tunnel which has recently been developed in the Aeronautical…

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IN a lecture before the Royal Aeronautical Society in December 1931, the author demonstrated the use of a wind tunnel which has recently been developed in the Aeronautical Laboratory of the Engineering Department of Cambridge University for projecting on a screen the flow pattern when air flows past bodies of various shapes.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 4 no. 7
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Publication date: 1 May 1949

W.S. Farren

IF variety is the spice of life, then aircraft engineers have little to complain of in their experience of the last twenty years. It is true that most of the hopes of a sane…

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IF variety is the spice of life, then aircraft engineers have little to complain of in their experience of the last twenty years. It is true that most of the hopes of a sane world, with which we set out after the first war—a world in which aircraft would be a powerful influence for good —were wearing a bit thin in 1929. It was becoming clear that only the few could afford to fly. There was little prospect of a demand for aircraft as private or public transport vehicles on a scale which would provide a healthy basis for a free competitive industry. Possibly the most surprising phenomenon of those times of depression was the survival of so many aircraft concerns. In the succeeding years—Mr Churchill's ‘locust years’ 1931–35—darkened by the shadow of coming catastrophe, the meagre defence requirements provided a means of existence. Research, fostered by a few brave spirits, not only lived but made notable strides. Above all, the creative genius of engineers contrived to find means of producing the vital advances upon which, from 1936 onwards, rearmament in the air was founded.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 21 no. 5
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Publication date: 1 January 1937

W.S. Farren

SO much has already been written about the Fifteenth Paris Salon that it may seem that at this date little more remains to be said. It is the purpose of these notes rather to…

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SO much has already been written about the Fifteenth Paris Salon that it may seem that at this date little more remains to be said. It is the purpose of these notes rather to attempt a brief analysis of the trends of aircraft and engine development of which it gave evidence than to catalogue the exhibits in detail. The main impression produced by a quick survey of the main hall was that for the first time French constructors were showing good examples of aircraft embodying the developments in design and construction accepted throughout most of the aeronautical world as the best compromise to meet the conditions of the time. Experience of previous Paris Shows had led one to expect to see little that inspired confidence in the future of French aviation apart from a few serviceable but relatively uninteresting designs. Originality was never lacking, but it seemed often that it was originality that had gone astray. The present Show was not entirely devoid of unconventional aircraft nor was every one of the machines exhibited a good machine on present standards. But there were none which one could fairly class as freaks.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 9 no. 1
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