Aero Research

In commercial practice resorcinol is seldom used on its own but in conjunction with phenol when condensing with formaldehyde. Such a material is Aerodux 185, introduced by Aero Research Ltd (now part of Ciba-Geigy) in 1944. 

PVF-P adhesives have been used at de Havilland in Hatfield, England since 1936 for the manufacture of air screws [199]. Aero Research Ltd. of Duxford, England, which became CIBA (A.R.L.), originally developed them ([200], pp. 76-83). Currently, the Redux business and trademark belongs to the Hexcel Composites Ltd. and is applied to the original polyvinyl-phenolic alloys as well as epoxies and bismaleimide adhesives that give structural performance at even higher temperatures [201]. 

Aero Research Ltd., Duxford, Cambridge, for information on cements for glass... 

Group Aero, Research and Devel., Palais de Chaillot, Paris). 

Norman A. de Bruyne, The establishment and development of Aero Research Limited, in Ronald S I dwards and Harry Townsend, Business Enterprise Its Growth and Organisation (London Macmillan, 1964), Appendix 1, pp. 103-111 and Elisabeth Garnsey, An early academic enterprise A study of technology transfer, Business History, 34 (1992), 79-98. 

After the war. Aero Research manufactured ClBA s Araldite and melamine products (licensed by American Cyanamid to CIBA) at Duxford, and in 1948 was taken over by CIBA. " This had been a case of the successful introduction of chemical technology into an enterprise that had no prior experience in chemical manufacture. Through its expertise as user and producer of new-technology resins and adhesives. Aero Research eventually directed all its efforts towards their production. 

Progress in plastics. British adhesives Exhibition and demonstration at Aero Research, Ltd., British Plastics, (October 1948), 500-501 C.J. Moss, Araldite A new adhesive, coating and casting resin, British... 

A. de Bruyne, The Extent of Contact Between Glue and Adherend, Aero Research Technical Notes, Bulletin No. 168, Duxford, UK, 1956. 

N. A. DeBruyne, The extent of contact between glue and adherend. Bulletin 168, Technical Services Dept., Aero Research Ltd., Duxford, Cambridge, England (December 1956). 

Comment by Norman de Bmyne, founder of Aero Research Limited, on the Air Ministry s reluctance to make surface pre treatment of plywood mandatory prior to bonding. 

Aero Research Technical Notes, Difficulties in Gluing Plywood, Bulletin No. 21, September 1944. 

The most significant revolution in bonding wooden aircraft structures occurred with the introduction of adhesives based on U/F resins. Although the basic resin had been patented in 1920, it was not until 1937 that adhesives based on this chemistry were produced by BASF in Germany and Aero Research Limited at Duxford in the UK (Aerolite range). Such was their impact that they were in significant commercial production before the outbreak of the Second World War. 

Aero Research Limited discovered the efficacy of formic acid as a hardener [9], the crazing problem was solved the resultant adhesive was designated Aerohte 300. 

The first of this new generation of structural adhesives, developed in the UK by Norman de Bruyne and George Newell of Aero Research Limited, Duxford, Cambridge, was Redux (/fesearch at Durford), which was based on a formulated P/F resin and was the first synthetie adhesive for bonding structural components construeted from composite and metaUie materials. 

Aero Research Technical Notes (1946). Aerolite in Aircraft Manufacture, Bulletin No. 46, October. 

Aero Research Technical Notes (1960). The Durability of Aerolite 300, Bulletin No. 205, January. 

Aero Research Technical Notes (1958). Adhesives in Sailplane Building, Bulletin No. 192, December. 

Aero Research Technical Notes (1945). Wiar Work, Bulletin No. 34, October. 

Aero Research Technical Notes (1953). Structural Adhesives for Metal Aircraft, Bulletin No. 130, October. 

B.P. 577790, N. A. de Bru5me of Aero Research Limited and the de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited (Inventors), Filed 1939, accepted 1946. 

Einney, J.M. Department of supply, Australia, aero. Research lab. Struct. Mats. Report 287... 

Gough, H.J., Pollard, H.V., Clenshaw, W.J. Some experiments on the resistance of metals to fatigue under combined stresses. Aero Research Council, RSM 2522, Part 1, H.M.S.O., London (1951)... 

Redux Bonding in the Hornet. Bulletin No. 39. Aero Research Technical Notes March 1946. 

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