aviation aeronautical engineering aircraft journal (16 résultats)

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Navy flyer Lieut. Soucek and his 1930 altitude record at 43,166 feet; Good Year ad features photos of American Airways planes; Data on the strength of Aircraft Materials; Improving the Control System; Weight Reduction Versus Drag Reduction in Design; The Stark System of Instrument Flying; A New Army Fighting Grade Anti-Knock Aviation Gasoline - article by Major James H. Doolittle; Engineering Deductions of a Flight Around the World - Charles Healy Day and his Errant (Martin); The New Continental R-670; Care and Construction of Metal Propellers; 1931 Aircraft Production; Century Airlines Hangar-Terminal Building; Brief personality profile - with photo - of Charles N. Monteith, Boeing's chief engineer; Obituary of C.T. Porter; Autogiro photo ad inside back cover shows Juan De La Cierva taking off from Pier 34, New York, December 23, 1931; Nice illustrated back cover ad for the new Stinson Model "R"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 58 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Major "Jimmy" Doolittle's record transcontinental flight from Burbank to Newark in 1931; Positioning of Link Rod Wrist Pins in Articulated Connecting Rods; Propeller Design; The Sperry Automatic Pilot for Airplanes; Fire Extinguishers; Methods of Laying Out Flat Patterns; Fuel and Lubricants in Relation to Engine Design; The Triangle Parachute; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing; The Herrick Vertoplane; German Experiments with Chemical Cooling of Aircraft Engines; New Planes - The C-J Bird and the Cabin Giro; Cold Prevention of Dural Age-Hardening; Overhaul of the Menasco B-4; New Products; News; Sperry Gyroscope ad features photo of George Cushing of Eastern Air Transport, Inc., in his Mailwing; Nice photo ad for Autogiro inside back cover; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 54 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon and their record-setting Trans-Pacific flight from Sabishiro Beach, Japan to Wenatchee, Washington in 1931; Analysis of Landing Gear Fittings; Installation of Radial Air-Cooled Engines; Manufacturing Light Planes; Design Refinements in Bird Planes; Welded Tubing and Streamlined Struts; Pratt & Whitney's New Fuel Injection System; The Buhl Pusher Type Autogiro; Inspection Gauges used in Engine Production; New Planes; Comments on Stress Analysis and Design; Selection, Care and Maintenance of Porcelain Spark Plugs; Material Control in Chain Airport Operation; General Aviation Moves into new Factory; Thompson Valves ad on page 8 recounts the Giant Dornier DO-X and its many flights beginning in Friedrichshafen in November 1930 under the command of Friedrich Christiansen; many more nostalgic ads; Nice centerfold ad by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation boasts of their Facilities and Services across America; Nice photo ad for Wright Aeronautical documents their sale of engines to Swissair in 1929; Wasp & Hornet Engines ad features great photo of Sikorsky S-40 in flight; Autogiro ad inside back cover includes testimonial by Leslie B. Cooper (Kellett K-2 Augogiro) who landed in the backhard of a farmhouse near Syracuse after running out of fuel; Nice Stinson Aircraft ad on the back with photos of their new Model R; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Longitudinal Stability for Very Large Airplanes; Solution of Anomalies With Flying Models; Practical Structures; Economics of Airplane Sales; Outlook for Aviation; Aircraft Radio - a description of both radio receiving and transmitting apparatus for the large multi-motored planes as well as the small please plane; Maintenance of an Air Transport Service and Safety Standards; Ad for Western Electric radio telephone receiver; Stromberg-Carlson ad with photo of Lt. J.H. Doolittle, shown with his famous fog-flying plane; New Aircraft - with photo of Schroeder-Wentworth Guggenheim Safety Contest entry, the Paramount Cabinaire, the Curtiss P-y Hawk, and the Wallace Touroplane; News of the Industry; Airports and Airways; New Developments; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Aircraft Design Trends; Aircraft Dope and Finish Problems; Cabin Insulation; Graphical Methods for Least-Square Problems; Joining and Soldering - results of tests on duraluminum and aluminum joined with recently developed aluminum solders; Fundamental Aerodynamics (part 5) - a detailed study of characteristics essential in the selection of an airfoil; Book Reviews; New Aircraft - with photo of the American Eagle Flybabout; News of the Industry - with photo of Arthur Sowden of the Detroit Steel Products Company; Photo othe Fokker Aircraft Corporation factory at Wheeling, West Virginia; Airports and Airways; many vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 42 pages. Features: Interesting Packard-Diesel photo ad inside front cover explains how their engine gains revs when going over mountain tops; Thompson Valve ad commemorates the "Southern Cross", piloted by Wing Commander Charles Kingford-Smith, which completed the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing in a heavier-than-air craft in 1930; New Features of Engines Exhibited at the National Aircraft Show; Wind Tunnel Tests and Performance Calculations on the Medvedeff Monobiplane; The Month's Best from the Foreign Press - The Development of Deck Flying (to/from aircraft carriers) with photo of Squadron Commander Dunning's first successful landing on the H.M.S. Furious, and three photos of the fatal second attempt; Airplane Motor Radio Shielding; Aircraft Servicing Solutions; Compensating the Compass - Periodic Inspection and Servicing; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Aircraft Engine Trends; Materials and Methods Used in the Manufacture of Aircraft Engines; X-Rays and Their Application to Aircraft Materials; Valves for Aircraft Engines; Equipment for Building Aircraft Engines - many photos; Motor Specifications; Electric Generators for Aircraft; Airports and Landing Fields in the U.S. (by state); New Radio Transmitter Developed; News of the Industry; New Developments; Chevrolet Aircraft Engines Corp. ad includes photo of Louis Chevrolet and his 333 engine; Handsome photo ad for the Packard-Diesel aircraft which 'flies the mail'; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Analysis of Torsional Stresses in Airplane Wings - a method by which, through simple layouts and calculations the mutual action of the spars can be computed; Engineering Organization; Radio Telephony as Applied to Aircraft - a description of the radiophone equipment developed by the Communications Department of the Boeing Air Transport System - article with photos, including Eddie Allen wearing special microphone mounting which moves with his head; Aircraft Steel Problems - a discussion of failures in Steel Aircraft Parts, investigated by the Metallurgical Laboratory at Wright Field; Fundamental Aerodynamics (last instalment) - a study of resistance due to parts of the airplane other than the wings; Soundproofing of Airplane Cabine; Book Reviews; New Aircraft - with photos of the B-5 Mahoney-Ryan brougham and Kinner Powered American Eagle; News of the Industry; Airports and Airways; New Developments; Los Angeles County ad attracting aviation companies; many vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 66 pages. Features: Thompson Valves front cover ad commemorates the "Cape Cod" which flew from New York to Istanbul in 1930; Interesting Bell System ad for their Teletypewriters; Interesting Stanavo ad explains how the Sperry automatic pilot recently flew an Eastern Air Transport for twenty minutes at Newark Airport - text with photo of H.A. Elliott of Eastern; Applications of Electricity in Aircraft; Sikorsky's Contributions to the Huge Amphibians - The S-40; Simplicity in Light Plane Design - article illustrated with photo and diagrams, plus power plant and fuel system specs; Simplicity in Light Plane Engine Design; Design of Riveted Joints; Airplane Construction Production Methods; Manufacture of Precision Parts for Aircraft Engines; Two photos of new Boeing bomber which carries a crew of five and two 1,000lb bombs; Centerfold ad celebrates the consolidation of Airway Age with Aviation Engineering; Good Year tire ad includes photo and endorsement from Northwest Airways; Interesting 'Postal Telegraph' ad; Nice illustrated Chance Vought Corporation ad for their Navy Corsairs; Great photo ad for the Autogiro inside back cover; Impressive photo ad for Martin Aircraft on back cover shows some of their impressive manufacturing equipment; Forming of Aluminum Sheet for Aircraft; Servicing Pratt & Whitney Engines; French Design Powerful Water-Cooled Engine; Schneider Cup Engine; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates Charles Lindbergh and his wife for setting a coast to coast speed record in 1930 aboard the "Flying Colonel"; Shall There Be One Type of Engine for One Model of Plane?; Non-Rigid Airships, Their Development - article with photos; Technical Description of the Martin 333 Aircraft Engine; Design of Air-Cooled Cylinders; Development in Stability and Rotor Starting Characteristics of the Autogiro; Self-Tapping Screws Make Better Fastenings in Aircraft Construction Proved by Lab Tests; Stinson Tri-Motor Club Plane - text with nice photos; The Month's Best From the Foreign Press; Special Equipment for the Overhaul of Wright Aircraft Engines; Maintenance and Servicing of Eclipse Aviation Generators; Engine Repair Cost Accounting (part III); Servicing Problems; Your Log Book - Is It Up-To-Date?; New Shop Equipment; Reviews; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 40 pages. Features: Effect of Fillets Between Wings and Fuselage; Cabin Interiors; Magnesium and its Alloys in Motors and Aircraft; The Packard Diesel Aircraft Engine; Automatic Viscometer; Los Angeles County promotional ad; News of the Industry; New Developments - with photo of Chevrolet aircraft motor; Back cover Stromberg-Carlson ad includes photo of their Fokker Super-Universal research plane; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates the round the world trip of Mears and Collyer in 1928; Design and Construction of Aluminum Alloy Floats - article with photo of Keystone Commuter; Air-Cooled Cylinder Head Design; The Privateer Amphibian - A Low Wing Pusher Monoplane; Wind Tunnel Testts on Airplane Wheel Cowlings; Improvement and Economy in Carburetor Control; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing (part II); Effectiveness and Balance of Horizontal Control Surface; The Month's best from the Foreign Press; Assembly Instructions of the Fairchild Cabin Monoplane 71; Method of Making the Navy Type Cable Splice; How to Design and Build and Aircraft Finishing Room; Airplane and Engine Repair Cost Accounting; Puti It Up to Parker; How Fast Do They Fly?; New Products; Nice ad inside back cover Detroit's Hotel Fort Shelby; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates the first refueling endurance flight in history by Maj. Carl Spatz, Capt. Ira Eaker, Lieut. Elwood R. Quesada, Lieut. Harry A. Halverson and Staff Sgt. Roy Hooe, of the U.S. Army Air Corps; The Merrill Movable Wing Stagger Decalage Biplane; A Technical Description of the Continental Model A70 Second Series Engine; Propeller Materials and Airplane Safety; My Observations at the French Aero Show - with photo of the Dornier Do-S flying boat and the S.E.C.M. two-engined bomber; The Curtiss-Wright Junior and its Characteristics; The Month's Best from the Foreign Press - Junkers F.13 Disaster caused by Buffeting; Tips on Designing an Airplane; Reviews - with photo of Grover Loening at the controls of U.S. Navy submarine seaplane; Weights of Aluminum Alloy Floats and Hulls; Radio Shielding for Pratt and Whitney Engines; Servicing the Aerol Strut; Inspection, Maintenance and Repair of Aluminum Structural Parts; Airplane and Engine Repair Cost Accounting (part II); Servicing Problems; No Smoking; New Products; Nice ad for Detroit's Hotel Fort Shelby inside back cover; Back cover Packard-Diesel ad boasts of 9/10 of a cent per mile operating cost on 12,000 mile flight; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Aircraft Propellers - empirical formula for Maximum Fiber-Stress and Explanations of them and Considerations that apply to Variable-Pitch Propellers; Relation of Production Cost to Quantity in Airplane Manufacturing - pressed metal vs. wood and welded steel tubing; Starters for Airplane Engines; Fundamental Aerodynamics (part IV) - effect on characteristics of giving an airfoil taper in plan form and in thickness; New Aircraft (photo of Fokker F-11); News of the Industry - with photo of executives of the Timm Airplane Corporation, including Jack Gardner, Wally D. Timm and Otto W. Timm; Airports and Airways; New Developments; many vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear and soiling. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates Capt. Frank Hawks and his 1930 record-setting flight racing the sun from New York to Los Angeles in 14 hours and 50 minutes non-stop; Packard ad includes photo of Walter Lees and Frederic A. Brossy who set a U.S. record of over 73 hours aloft without refueling; My Impressions of the Exhibits at the Detroit Aircraft Show (major article with photos); Accessories and Equipment at the Show, Many New Devices; Interior Furnishing and Decoration of Flying Boats; Machining For Wasp Cylinder Heads; The Month's Best From the Foreign Press - including more information on the D'Ascanio Helicopter; Reviews; Servicing the American Cirrus Engine - with clearance diagram; Heed These Points for Satisfactory Finishing Results; Special Equipment for the Overhaul of Wright Aircraft Engines; Simple Instructions for Wing Repairing; Servicing Problems; Servicing Pains; Nice one-page illustrated ad for H.K. Porter Inc. of Everett Mass. displays their portable hand operated cutting tools; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Aviation Engineering (Magazine), With Which is Consolidated Aircraft Servicing - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, May 1931 - Impressions of the Detroit Aircraft Show Thompson Valve ad commemorates Capt. Frank Hawks and his 1930 record.

Etat : Good. Magazine. Folios. A collection of 589 issues, consisting of a near-complete consecutive run of 152 loose issues in wrappers dating from January 1917 December 1921 (lacking one issue); a second near-complete consecutive run of 293 loose issues dating from October 11, 1926 December 1940 (also lacking one issue); and a third set of 22 bound volumes (in full cloth over boards) containing a consecutive run of 144 bound issues from January 1941 December 1951 (most bound in without wrappers). Ex-library with a small light red ink stamp on the front cover of the loose issues, and a dark blue ink stamp on the front pastedowns of the bound volumes. In good condition overall: with scattered intermittent short tears to the wrappers of the loose issues, about 40 loose issues (housed in cardboard file boxes) have torn or detached wraps, else good or better. About 14 bound volumes (1945-51) have old scattered damp staining to the text pages and covers, overall fair and sound, the other eight volumes (1941-44) are very good overall.