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Engineering Problems in Aircraft Operation at High Altitudes*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

R. E. Johnson  and
R. F. Gagg
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The authors review the capabilities of the typical modern airplane for high-altitude operation and present the restrictions of the power plant of the modern airplane which prevent it from delivering its normal output at high altitudes. The paper also discusses the improvements in the aerodynamic characteristics of the airplane as well as changes in the power-plant design and the progress achieved in cruising operation at high altitudes within the limitations imposed by passenger comfort and safety. The authors evaluate further possible gains which may result from an extension of this trend, and examine the engineering problems involved in both the airplane and the engine.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 305 , May 1936 , pp. 313 - 322
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1936

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Footnotes

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Reprinted by kind permission of the authors and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from Transactions of the A.S.M.E., Vol. 58, No. 1, January, 1936.

References

Contributed by the Aeronautic Division and presented at the Semi-Annual Meeting of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS held at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 19 to 21, 1935.

NOTE: Statements and opinions advanced in papers are to be understood as individual expressions of their authors, and not those of the Society.