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Ferrous Metallurgy in Relation to Aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

W. H. Hatfield
W. H. Hatfield*
Affiliation:
Sheffield
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Nearly twenty years have passed since the author had the pleasure of giving a paper on the same subject to this Society. Progress in the meantime as regards the means and art of flying has been not only sustained, but rapid, as is brought out by the simple facts contained in Table I. The amazing technology is well represented by the De Havilland Comet, which has just flown tc Australia and back in thirteen and a quarter days, developing 460 h.p. with a weight ratio of i2lbs. per h.p. It therefore becomes interesting and perhaps useful to determine the extent to which metallurgy has contributed and is contributing.

It is proposed to confine this paper to Ferrous Metallurgy, since that is the field with which firstly the author feels most qualified to deal, and secondly, because steel, in a manner unparalleled amongst available metals, can be so profoundly modified in properties by changes in composition and heat treatment.

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Proceedings
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 295 , July 1935 , pp. 551 - 618
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1935

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Note on page 586 1. Before welding.

2.After welding.

Note on page 592 1. After welding.

2.Before welding.