May 1, 1942

May 1, 1942

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AVIATION MANUFACTURING

Strength Analysis of Riveted and Bolted Joints

By WAYNE A. McGOWAN19 min

THE AVIATION NEWS

National Aviation

AVIATION MANUFACTURING

Working Transparent Plastics

By JOHN SASSO16 min

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AVIATION MANUFACTURING

Strength Analysis of Riveted and Bolted Joints

The concluding part of an article on how the strength of riveted and bolted joints is calculated by the structural engineer.

By WAYNE A. McGOWAN19 min

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THE AVIATION NEWS

National Aviation

The American Air Force’s 4.000-mile raid on the Japheld Philippines, from Darwin, Australia, was the longest military air operation in history thus far. That fact, added to its success in knocking out eight ships and in damaging other enemy forces, plus the loss of only one airplane, makes it an epoch in the annals of air war.
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AVIATION MANUFACTURING

Working Transparent Plastics

Typical Plexiglas installation on a Bell Aircobra. The transparency of acrylic sheets is strikingly demonstrated.

By JOHN SASSO16 min

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NEW PRODUCTS

New Products

Featuring simplicity of design and adaptability to high production, a new line of hydraulic check valves is being widely installed on both Army and Navy military planes, following recent introduction of the new line of valves by Bendix Aviation, Ltd., Burbank, Calif.
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AVIATION MANUFACTURING

Remote Propeller Drives

With the impetus given aeronautical design by wartime exigencies and the consequent demand for optimum performance without regard to normal considerations of conventional practices and cost, attention of designers again is turning toward the provocative problems of "piping" propulsive power from powerplants to most efficient locations for propellers. Here is a review of progress in this field to date

By FRANK T. COURTNEY14 min

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MAINTENANCE

Primary Flight Maintenance

Civilian schools now under contract to train Army pilots are doing the miraculous, largely through the diligence and ingenuity of the maintenance personnel. This is dramatically illustrated in the following story of maintenance technique at Hawthorne School of Aeronautics.

By WILLIAM D. STROHMEIER14 min

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Transport Aviation

Washington (AVIATION Bureau)—Air transport’s newest headache is mail rates. Traffic vice-presidents, editors, lawyers, congressmen, are swapping mad words because rates are too high and rates are too low. This trouble boiled up because there is a heat under it, and the heat is war.
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AVIATION MANUFACTURING

Charting Aircraft Stability

In this second part the use of the stability chart is demonstrated in its application to dynamic longitudinal stability.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Airline Progress and Mail Rates

WHILE the airlines show another year of progress in their 1941 annual accounts, the dominent note appears to revolve around the question of mail compensation. Either a protest is leveled against the threat of reduced mail pay or notice is served that increased mail compensation may be sought.

By SELIG ALTSCHUL9 min

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AVIATION MANUFACTURING

Design Charts for Tubes Subjected to Torsion

This is second in a series of articles on design charts for tubular members by Mr. Clayton. In the April issue of Aviation there appeared design charts for tubes subjected to bending. The use of charts for determining safe wall thickness of tubes subjected to torsional shear is described in the following.

By WALTER C. CLAYTON8 min

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