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An Investigation of the Effects of Working Pressure on Aircraft Hydraulic Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. H. Walsh
R. H. Walsh*
Affiliation:
Engineering Physics Dept, RAE Farnborough
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Hydraulic systems are used extensively in aircraft for actuating flight control and other surfaces and in retraction, steering and braking mechanisms. Their weight is of the order of 9% to 13% of the payload in present day civil aircraft and about twice these values in military aircraft. This investigation is aimed at finding whether lighter and more compact systems would result from a change of working pressure and at providing general relationships in the form of dimensionless curves to enable designers readily to optimise aircraft hydraulic systems.

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Supplementary Paper
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 711 , March 1970 , pp. 251 - 267
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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