Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 11 Issue 6
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The Aeroplane as a Structure: The Need for Co‐ordination and Clarification of Ideas
WE are glad to have the opportunity of publishing DR. PUGSLEY'S article on structural research. Things have been moving so rapidly in aviation of late and changes in design and in…
Structural Research in Aeronautics: A Discussion of some General Principles and Basic Ideas for Those Working in This Field
A.G. PugsleyAERONAUTICAL research has until recently been conducted by men trained in other and varied branches of science and engineering. Mathematicians and physicists, civil and mechanical…
The Stressing of Thin Rings: A Simplified and Complete Method for the Solution of Continuous Rings
R.A. FairthorneTHE usual formulæ for deflexions and bending moments in curved beams, as given in standard textbooks (e.g., Refs. 1 and 2), are not easily applied to the relatively flimsy closed…
Models in Structural Research: An Aid to the Designer in Solving Difficult Problems in Stressed‐Skin Structures
D. WilliamsTHE general use of monocoque structures for the wings and fuselages of modern aeroplanes has undoubtedly given rise to a crop of problems in stress distribution which are still…
Nickel—Its Uses and Sources: The Importance of the Material as an Alloy in Other Metals, with Notes on Supplies
J.M. RobertsonTHE annual production of nickel is small in comparison with that of the common industrial metals, iron and steel, copper, lead, zinc and aluminium, but it is a metal of first…
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…
The New Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society
As a result of the election held in March the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society for the year 1939–1940 is constituted as follows:
Planning Fire Insurance—I
F.H. GribbleTHE rapid growth and development of the aircraft industry has necessitated prompt decision and action in handling the many problems in connexion with the erection and equipment of…
The Manufacture of Hollow Valves
A. BalleretTHE increase of the specific power of aero‐engines in the last few years has been obtained in three ways, namely: by increasing the engine speed and, more particularly, by raising…
Large‐Scale Production in Wood: An Outline of the Methods Employed in the Manufacture of the Airspeed Oxford
THE two previous articles in this series have dealt respectively with a metal fabric‐covered aeroplane and a metal stressed‐skin machine, so that the Oxford, as an example of…
A New Needle Bearing: An Aid to Rapid Production Recently Introduced
ONE of the objections attendant on the use of needle roller bearings, as illustrated in Fig. 1, has been overcome by the introduction of needle rollers having trunnion instead of…
Air Ministry Official Notices
Civil Specification Memorandum No. 22 1. This Memorandum cancels the following Civil Specification Memoranda:—
Air Ministry Contracts Placed in April
THE following list of contracts placed by the Air Ministry during April lias been extracted from the May issue of The Ministry of Labour Gazette:—
U.S. Patent Specifications
The combination with an engine cowl having a front entrance opening, of a disc disposed therein, swinging links guiding the rim of said disc for approximately helical movement…
Month in the Patent Office
The blades of an airscrew or spars and similar hollow structural parts of aircraft are formed of two shell sections of wood laminæ joined together with a moisture‐resisting…
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