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Some Books Received

Some Books Received 126 AIRCRAF T ENGINEERING May, 1935 A n Important German Book on Aerodynamics—Proceedings of the Applied Mechanics' Congress Aerodynamik. Fuchs - Hopf - Seewald . Proceeding s of the Fourth International industry. It is divided into five sections. I Band. Mechanik des Flugzeugs . By L. Congres s for Applie d Mechanics, 1934. Section I is an alphabetical list of firms. Section I I contains a valuable index of brand Hopf. (Julius Springer, Berlin. 30 RM.) (Cambridge University Press. 20s.) and trade names. Section III, entitled . A very full summary of the work of this Together with the second volume Theorie der Congress, which was held at Cambridge, "General, " gives a list of commercial and Luftkrafte, b y R . Fuchs, this forms the second England, on July 3-9, 1934, was given in a series private owners and "prominent people"— edition of the authors' earlier work Aero­ this list is so arbitrarily selective and incom­ of abstracts of all the paper s of aeronautical dynamik (1922), completely rewritten and plete that it would be bette r dropped in future interest in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. VI, containing muc h new material. A third volume issues—clubs, schools, etc. Section IV con­ August 1934, pp . 215-219. Of these, von on airscrews, Luftschrauben, by F. Seewald, tains firms classified under trades. Section V Kármán' s paper on "Some aspects of the will complete the work. This first volume is "Overseas and Dominions." Section VI, Turbulence Problem" and Wagner's "Uber corresponds with the second part of th e earlier "Genera l Information" chiefly consists of da s Gleiten von Körper n auf de r Wasserober- edition, th e theoretical treatment of the first fläche (On the Gliding of Bodies over the Surface information of an official character. A useful part being reserved for th e second volume. of the Water) are here published in full. The feature is the printing of each section on The first chapter is introductory and is of others are deal t with in abstracts ; those of th e different coloured paper. Possibly it does no t matter , but there is no list of publications value t o English readers chiefly for its definition papers prepared in Englis h in th e form in which either a t home or abroad. of the German nomenclature for force and they appeared in thes e pages and those of the momen t coefficients for aerofoils and airscrews. foreign papers in the original languages, of The principle of dynamical similarity is dis­ which we gave English translations. Of th e Somethin g Ne w Ou t of Africa . By "H.W. " cussed and a description is given of th e methods other papers reproduced in full, of which there (Pitman. 7s. 6d.) used in full scale and model experiments. are five in addition to those mentioned above, This is a cheaper issue of a book originally one on "Recen t Progress in Analysing Ma­ I n the second chapter the author examines th e published in 1933. The initials thinly dis­ chines," by Dr. V. Bush, of Massachusetts equilibrium conditions in straight flight and guise the nam e of a well-known R.A.F. officer, describes methods of estimating performance Institut e of Technology, is of considerable who for a time commanded a squadron of the and of analysing the results of flight tests. interest to mathematicians. Royal Air Force in th e Suda n and led i t in a The papers by von Kármá n and Wagner are flight across the Continent. He ha s collected The third chapter contains much valuable of themselves of sufficient importance to a great deal of interesting information about information, most of which was no t available warran t the possession of this beautifully the country which is written in a pleasant in 1922, for use in estimating and improving produced book. style. But the chief feature is th e magnificent performance, beginning with a series of empirical collection of air and ground photographs, charts and tables for weight and power esti­ Th e Aeronautical Ground Engineer's " X " largely of th e fauna of th e country . These an d mates. A discussion is given of th e theory of Licence. By Captain S. L. Collins. (John the excellent maps make the book a most wing lift and induced drag and of th e flow in Hamilton. 15s.) enviable possession. the boundary layer with its effect on profiile This book, as it s titl e implies, is intende d to drag and maximu m lift, including the effects of cover all the, in th e terms of the Air Naviga­ Reynolds number and surface roughness. The Automobil e and Aircraft Engines. By tion Directions, " other duties, as specified in use of slots and flaps is explained. The para­ A. W. Judge. (Pitman. 42s.). the licence, which, under the Order, are re­ sitic drag is then considered, with special This is th e thir d edition brought up t o date quired to be performed by a licensed ground attention to th e effect of the mutua l interfer­ of a publication which has been familiar for engineer." It is subject to the same criticism ence between the various part s of th e aeroplane. some considerable number of years. The tha t we hav e made of other similar publica­ In the paragrap h on radiato r drag the relation­ second edition was reviewed in AIRCRAFT tions. The publishers overestimate the amoun t ship between cooling properties and resistance ENGINEERING , Vol. III , February 1931, p . 47. which the prospective ground engineer is in a is explained, and the effects of the N.A.C.A. position to spend on book-instruction. It cowling and the Townend ring on the dra g of Th e Materials of Aircraft Construction. contains far to o much—nearly 100 pages—on air-cooled engines are described and com­ the theory of magnetism and electricity an d By F. T. Hill. (Pitman. 20s.) pared. The wate r resistance of floats is more too little on the practice of installation and This is a second, revised, edition of a book briefly considered. The final paragraph is inspection. There is a useful section on previously reviewed in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, concerned with airscrew thrust and efficiency, parachutes. Vol. V, August 1933, p . 183. One or tw o including the effect of the mutua l interference minor criticisms then put forward appear to of the body and the wing. Th e Engineer's Sketch Book. By T. W . have been noticed and corrections made. Barber. (Spon. 10s. 6d.) This is a book which can be thoroughly re­ The following chapters on stability and con­ This is th e sixth edition of a familiar publica­ commended both to the student and more trol follow more closely the earlier edition. tion giving details of various methods of advanced practical man . The fourth chapter deals with pitching moments designing and laying out devices in the con­ and static stability. In the fifth chapter the struction of machines for draughtsmen . It is Inspectio n of Aircraft after Overhaul problem of dynamic longitudinal stability is intended to save the time of the designer in ("B " Licence). By S. J . Norton (3s. 6d.) examined by Bryan' s method of small oscilla­ searching for such details and ha s grown ou t Th e Rigging, Maintenance and Inspec ­ tions. The effect of a finite disturbance from of the author's own collection of notes an d tio n of Aircraft ("A" Licence.) the equilibrium position and of a movement of sketches. Its application is not, of course, By W . J . C. Speller (5s.) Electrical and the elevators on th e subsequen t motion of th e specifically aeronautical, but i t has none the Wireles s Equipment of Aircraft. aeroplane is then examined by approximate less its practica l uses for this, as other, branches Bv S. G. Wybrow. (6s.) Aero-Engines methods involving step by step integration. of engineering. "D " Licence). By A. N . Barett . (Aero­ The control of a stalled aeroplane is also con­ nautical Engineering Series, Ground Engi­ sidered. The sixth chapter deals with steady Bayley' s Chemist's Pocket Book. Edited neer's. Pitman.) flight on curved paths, including spiral dives and by Robert Ensoll. (Spon. 8s. 6d.) spins. The effects of sideslip, angular velocity This is the ninth edition of an established The volume on Aero-Engines is a second and aileron angle on rolling and yawing pocket book on the "familiar lines of such edition of a book which was reviewed in AIR­ moments are illustrated by diagrams. In the publications, which contains a mass of informa­ CRAFT ENGINEERING, SO recently as Vol. VI, seventh chapter the method of small oscillations tion—mathematical, physical and analytical— April, 1934, p . 110. is applied to th e problem of latera l stability an d for the chemist and metallurgist. The other three are fresh volumes in a series the effect of a movement of th e controls on th e Plane s Directory of the Aviation and the purpose and utility of which was indicated subsequent motion, with special reference to Allied Industries. (Planes Publishers in the review already mentioned. The total the danger of entr y into a spin, is examined. Ltd . No price stated.) cost of th e complete set, which comprises five volumes in all, is 23s. I t is difficulty to see References to other publications are given The first issue of thi s new annua l shows great in footnotes throughout the book. promise. Already it contains a very complete how the individual whom it is designed to serve H. M. L. guide to the firms supplying the aircraft can afford this expenditure. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Emerald Publishing

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126 AIRCRAF T ENGINEERING May, 1935 A n Important German Book on Aerodynamics—Proceedings of the Applied Mechanics' Congress Aerodynamik. Fuchs - Hopf - Seewald . Proceeding s of the Fourth International industry. It is divided into five sections. I Band. Mechanik des Flugzeugs . By L. Congres s for Applie d Mechanics, 1934. Section I is an alphabetical list of firms. Section I I contains a valuable index of brand Hopf. (Julius Springer, Berlin. 30 RM.) (Cambridge University Press. 20s.) and trade names. Section III, entitled . A very full summary of the work of this Together with the second volume Theorie der Congress, which was held at Cambridge, "General, " gives a list of commercial and Luftkrafte, b y R . Fuchs, this forms the second England, on July 3-9, 1934, was given in a series private owners and "prominent people"— edition of the authors' earlier work Aero­ this list is so arbitrarily selective and incom­ of abstracts of all the paper s of aeronautical dynamik (1922), completely rewritten and plete that it would be bette r dropped in future interest in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, Vol. VI, containing muc h new material. A third volume issues—clubs, schools, etc. Section IV con­ August 1934, pp . 215-219. Of these, von on airscrews, Luftschrauben, by F. Seewald, tains firms classified under trades. Section V Kármán' s paper on "Some aspects of the will complete the work. This first volume is "Overseas and Dominions." Section VI, Turbulence Problem" and Wagner's "Uber corresponds with the second part of th e earlier "Genera l Information" chiefly consists of da s Gleiten von Körper n auf de r Wasserober- edition, th e theoretical treatment of the first fläche (On the Gliding of Bodies over the Surface information of an official character. A useful part being reserved for th e second volume. of the Water) are here published in full. The feature is the printing of each section on The first chapter is introductory and is of others are deal t with in abstracts ; those of th e different coloured paper. Possibly it does no t matter , but there is no list of publications value t o English readers chiefly for its definition papers prepared in Englis h in th e form in which either a t home or abroad. of the German nomenclature for force and they appeared in thes e pages and those of the momen t coefficients for aerofoils and airscrews. foreign papers in the original languages, of The principle of dynamical similarity is dis­ which we gave English translations. Of th e Somethin g Ne w Ou t of Africa . By "H.W. " cussed and a description is given of th e methods other papers reproduced in full, of which there (Pitman. 7s. 6d.) used in full scale and model experiments. are five in addition to those mentioned above, This is a cheaper issue of a book originally one on "Recen t Progress in Analysing Ma­ I n the second chapter the author examines th e published in 1933. The initials thinly dis­ chines," by Dr. V. Bush, of Massachusetts equilibrium conditions in straight flight and guise the nam e of a well-known R.A.F. officer, describes methods of estimating performance Institut e of Technology, is of considerable who for a time commanded a squadron of the and of analysing the results of flight tests. interest to mathematicians. Royal Air Force in th e Suda n and led i t in a The papers by von Kármá n and Wagner are flight across the Continent. He ha s collected The third chapter contains much valuable of themselves of sufficient importance to a great deal of interesting information about information, most of which was no t available warran t the possession of this beautifully the country which is written in a pleasant in 1922, for use in estimating and improving produced book. style. But the chief feature is th e magnificent performance, beginning with a series of empirical collection of air and ground photographs, charts and tables for weight and power esti­ Th e Aeronautical Ground Engineer's " X " largely of th e fauna of th e country . These an d mates. A discussion is given of th e theory of Licence. By Captain S. L. Collins. (John the excellent maps make the book a most wing lift and induced drag and of th e flow in Hamilton. 15s.) enviable possession. the boundary layer with its effect on profiile This book, as it s titl e implies, is intende d to drag and maximu m lift, including the effects of cover all the, in th e terms of the Air Naviga­ Reynolds number and surface roughness. The Automobil e and Aircraft Engines. By tion Directions, " other duties, as specified in use of slots and flaps is explained. The para­ A. W. Judge. (Pitman. 42s.). the licence, which, under the Order, are re­ sitic drag is then considered, with special This is th e thir d edition brought up t o date quired to be performed by a licensed ground attention to th e effect of the mutua l interfer­ of a publication which has been familiar for engineer." It is subject to the same criticism ence between the various part s of th e aeroplane. some considerable number of years. The tha t we hav e made of other similar publica­ In the paragrap h on radiato r drag the relation­ second edition was reviewed in AIRCRAFT tions. The publishers overestimate the amoun t ship between cooling properties and resistance ENGINEERING , Vol. III , February 1931, p . 47. which the prospective ground engineer is in a is explained, and the effects of the N.A.C.A. position to spend on book-instruction. It cowling and the Townend ring on the dra g of Th e Materials of Aircraft Construction. contains far to o much—nearly 100 pages—on air-cooled engines are described and com­ the theory of magnetism and electricity an d By F. T. Hill. (Pitman. 20s.) pared. The wate r resistance of floats is more too little on the practice of installation and This is a second, revised, edition of a book briefly considered. The final paragraph is inspection. There is a useful section on previously reviewed in AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, concerned with airscrew thrust and efficiency, parachutes. Vol. V, August 1933, p . 183. One or tw o including the effect of the mutua l interference minor criticisms then put forward appear to of the body and the wing. Th e Engineer's Sketch Book. By T. W . have been noticed and corrections made. Barber. (Spon. 10s. 6d.) This is a book which can be thoroughly re­ The following chapters on stability and con­ This is th e sixth edition of a familiar publica­ commended both to the student and more trol follow more closely the earlier edition. tion giving details of various methods of advanced practical man . The fourth chapter deals with pitching moments designing and laying out devices in the con­ and static stability. In the fifth chapter the struction of machines for draughtsmen . It is Inspectio n of Aircraft after Overhaul problem of dynamic longitudinal stability is intended to save the time of the designer in ("B " Licence). By S. J . Norton (3s. 6d.) examined by Bryan' s method of small oscilla­ searching for such details and ha s grown ou t Th e Rigging, Maintenance and Inspec ­ tions. The effect of a finite disturbance from of the author's own collection of notes an d tio n of Aircraft ("A" Licence.) the equilibrium position and of a movement of sketches. Its application is not, of course, By W . J . C. Speller (5s.) Electrical and the elevators on th e subsequen t motion of th e specifically aeronautical, but i t has none the Wireles s Equipment of Aircraft. aeroplane is then examined by approximate less its practica l uses for this, as other, branches Bv S. G. Wybrow. (6s.) Aero-Engines methods involving step by step integration. of engineering. "D " Licence). By A. N . Barett . (Aero­ The control of a stalled aeroplane is also con­ nautical Engineering Series, Ground Engi­ sidered. The sixth chapter deals with steady Bayley' s Chemist's Pocket Book. Edited neer's. Pitman.) flight on curved paths, including spiral dives and by Robert Ensoll. (Spon. 8s. 6d.) spins. The effects of sideslip, angular velocity This is the ninth edition of an established The volume on Aero-Engines is a second and aileron angle on rolling and yawing pocket book on the "familiar lines of such edition of a book which was reviewed in AIR­ moments are illustrated by diagrams. In the publications, which contains a mass of informa­ CRAFT ENGINEERING, SO recently as Vol. VI, seventh chapter the method of small oscillations tion—mathematical, physical and analytical— April, 1934, p . 110. is applied to th e problem of latera l stability an d for the chemist and metallurgist. The other three are fresh volumes in a series the effect of a movement of th e controls on th e Plane s Directory of the Aviation and the purpose and utility of which was indicated subsequent motion, with special reference to Allied Industries. (Planes Publishers in the review already mentioned. The total the danger of entr y into a spin, is examined. Ltd . No price stated.) cost of th e complete set, which comprises five volumes in all, is 23s. I t is difficulty to see References to other publications are given The first issue of thi s new annua l shows great in footnotes throughout the book. promise. Already it contains a very complete how the individual whom it is designed to serve H. M. L. guide to the firms supplying the aircraft can afford this expenditure.

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