The Aeronautical Journal: Volume 76 -

All weather operations—present achievements
K. W. Smith
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04 July 2016, pp. 183-187
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When I was invited to address this distinguished gathering on the subject of All-Weather Operations it was with some trepidation that I accepted. It always strikes me that, to an audience the majority of whose members are not directly involved in furthering the cause of bad weather landing, yet another progress report on this topic must sound rather like the Continuing Story of Peyton Place—a complex intrigue of interwoven plots with little defined end result. I personally do not believe that the situation is really as depressing as this, and my task is to try and convince you that this is so, hopefully, by presenting objectives and achievements in simple terms. I will try (not completely successfully I fear) to avoid the plethora of jargon that the international civil aviation fraternity has necessarily had to employ in its complex debate and arguments. If, as a result, I can be accused of oversimplification, I apologise to the experts, and only hope that it is of genuine assistance to the non-experts.

Engines for civil V/STOL
E. A. White, G. L. Wilde
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04 July 2016, pp. 627-632
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The rising demand for short-haul air transport with its attendant problems of community disturbance, airport congestion and increasingly longer total journey times is well recognised in many parts of the world. Equally accepted is the need for a radically new solution to these problems with a major V/STOL transport sub-system which can both be integrated with operations at existing airports and extended as necessary to new airports in urban areas without sterilising large areas of real-estate. All this has been argued at great length many times in many places and there have been many “solutions in search of the problem”. This paper reviews some of the possibilities from the engine manufacturers’ point of view without commenting on the relative merits of rival aircraft proposals.

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