Aeroplane Structures

Aeroplane Deformation Measurement

With industrial development, industrial products have become more refined and complex, resulting in increased necessity for manufacturers to come up with a robust method of measurement to check whether or not the products have been produced correctly to meet customers’ needs. As a result, significant attention has been drawn to industrial photogrammetry to satisfy such needs without contacting ...

Aeroplane Accident in Calcutta

On the 16th November, 1949, at 6 minutes to ten in the morning two aeroplanes collided in mid-air over Calcutta and crashed. One of them crashed into the Calcutta Medical College compound, damaging several rooms in the north-eastern corner of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. The following photographs show the damage done to room No. 17 in which the editorial office is situated. Fortuna...

Sudden death on an aeroplane.

The weightshift-controlled microlight aeroplane

Microlight aircraft are increasingly becoming the most popular segment of private aviation. In the United Kingdom the majority (about 2500 of a total fleet of 3500) of these aircraft are of the weightshift class, also known as flexwings or trikes. This paper introduces the main issues involved in the design and operation of this class of aeroplane.

Molecular survey of aeroplane bacterial contamination.

AIMS To examine bacterial contamination of passenger aircraft and to identify aeroplane environments posing the greatest potential health risk. METHODS AND RESULTS DNA was extracted from ten environmental samples collected on four different flights (three domestic, one international) from a variety of surfaces frequently touched by passengers. PCR clone libraries were made from the DNA sample...