The Aeronautical Journal: Volume 78 -

Anti-Tank Guided Weapons
J. Cattanach
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04 July 2016, pp. 112-115
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For the past half-century the tank has dominated the land battle by virtue of its armour.
During the last war, the discovery of the shaped high explosive charge (or hollow charge) was the first significant step towards its decline. This type of warhead could penetrate the thickest armour then in use, without the need for its carrier to have any significant velocity. No longer were projectiles of high kinetic energy, and therefore high velocity, required.

Research in Human Engineering at the Royal Aircraft Establishment
R. G. Thorne
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04 July 2016, pp. 167-180
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I accepted, with some alacrity, your Council's invitation to present this lecture since it reflected a growing awareness of the need to pay particular and urgent attention to the correct use of the human operator in the design of aircraft and their systems. My experience suggests we have paid only lip service to human factor requirements and have relied on the adaptability of aircrews to sort things out once the aircraft enters service. We are also faced with the paradox that, the cleverer we become at inventing black boxes to usurp man, the more important it becomes to define the role, the response, the performance and the limitations of man. Any human factor assumptions we make in the early conceptual stages will critically affect the course of the development. If these assumptions are poorly based we shall finish up with an aircraft of limited effectiveness and the exciting new developments in avionics, now being offered will be substantially wasted.

Glass windshields for wide bodied aircraft
W. G. Roberts
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04 July 2016, pp. 221-225
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For many years most transport aircraft throughout the world have used a common form of windshield construction with a single ply of tempered glass for pressure resistance, combined with a thick polyvinyl butyral interlayer. This interlayer is usually reinforced at the edges with a metal insert and acts as a diaphragm to provide bird impact resistance, and also serves as a secondary load path to contain pressurisation in the event of failure of the primary glass ply.

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