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The Aeronautical Journal. 112:357-380
This paper celebrates the centenary of Queen Mary College’s involvement in aeronautics, a celebration with a unique distinction since it was this College’s immediate forebear which was the first British higher education institution to begin teach
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd
Publikováno v:
The Aeronautical Journal. 111:473-493
This issue of the Aeronautical Journal celebrates the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Honours Degree Course in Aeronautical Engineering at the Victoria University of Manchester. The following article therefore describes the aeronautical res
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd
Publikováno v:
The Aeronautical Journal. 107:1-48
Despite the common title of this series of papers, the specific area into which we now move originated on a more global scale than the title suggests. Thus in the spirit of the plan set down at the outset for this review,vizthat major ideas from abro
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd
Publikováno v:
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 56:333-348
The first part of this paper (published in the May 2002 issue ofNotes and Records) dealt with Cayley's invention of the aeroplane. This second part continues with a description of the subsequent development of his thinking and his construction of pra
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd
Publikováno v:
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 56:167-181
This paper, in two parts, seeks to describe and assess Cayley's technical development of his invention, the fixed–wing aeroplane. Particular attention is paid to such scientific results as were known to Cayley at that time. Part 1 deals with the in
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd
Publikováno v:
The Aeronautical Journal. 106:217-268
The second part of this survey closed a little after the termination of the First World War. By then the utility of the aeroplane as an instrument of warfare had been amply demonstrated. Moreover, something of its future potential in civil use had be
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd
Publikováno v:
The Aeronautical Journal. 104:569-596
The first part of this survey dealt mainly with the development of the earliest ideas on air resistance and their application to flight. That part of the survey paused at the achievement of powered flight during the early years of the twentieth centu
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd, P. J. Lamont
Publikováno v:
The Aeronautical Journal. 104:53-58
Prompted by claims made in the popular aviation literature, analysis is used in an attempt to estimate the turning performance of certain fighter aircraft flown during the Battle of Britain. In this it is necessary to provide values for such aerodyna
Autor:
J. A. D. Ackroyd
Publikováno v:
The Aeronautical Journal. 104:9-30
The Millennium now being upon us, it is perhaps appropriate to pause a while and take stock before leaping into an ever more problematic future. But why pause? Indeed, why bother with the past? Surely our newest, ever more sophisticated computer pack
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The Aeronautical Journal. 103:113-125
The aerodynamic performance of supercritical aerofoils at transonic speeds is strongly influenced by the shock wave-boundary-layer interaction. Passive shock control is one of the techniques used for controlling the undesirable effects of strong shoc