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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Airfoils 3: Continuation of Reports Nos. 93 and 124

Description: "This collection of data on airfoils has been made from the published reports of a number of the leading aerodynamic laboratories of this country and Europe. The information which was originally expressed according to the different customs of the several laboratories is here presented in a uniform series of charts and tables suitable for the use of designing engineers and for purposes of general reference. The absolute system of coefficients has been used, since it is thought by the National Ad… more
Date: 1924~
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The Aerodynamic Forces on Airship Hulls

Description: "This report describes the new method for making computations in connection with the study of rigid airship, which was used in the investigation of the navy's ZR-1 by the special subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics appointed for this purpose. It presents the general theory of the air forces on airship hulls of the type mentioned, and an attempt has been made to develop the results from the very fundamentals of mechanics without reference to some of the modern highly … more
Date: 1924
Creator: Munk, Max M.
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Aeronautic Instruments

Description: "The development of aeronautic instruments. Vibrations, rapid changes of the conditions of flight and of atmospheric conditions, influence of the air stream all call for particular design and construction of the individual instruments. This is shown by certain examples of individual instruments and of various classes of instruments for measuring pressure, change of altitude, temperature, velocity, inclination and turning or combinations of these" (p. 1).
Date: February 1924
Creator: Everling, E. & Koppe, H.
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Air-Flow Experiments

Description: This report describes the apparatus used to take air-flow photographs. The photographs show chiefly the spiral course of the lines of flow near the tip of the wing. They constitute therefore a visual presentation of the phenomena covered by airfoil theory.
Date: May 1924
Creator: Wieselsberger, C.
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Air Forces Exerted on Streamlined Bodies with Round or Square Cross- Sections, When Placed Obliquely to the Airstream

Description: "The question of behavior of a streamlined body with round or square cross-sections is of importance in determining the shape to give an airplane fuselage. It is our task here to show how the lift and drag are affected, with the object placed obliquely to the air stream" (p. 1).
Date: June 1924
Creator: Wieselsberger, C.
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Air Transport

Description: Report presenting the development in air transport that has taken place since civil aviation between England and Europe started at the end of August 1919. The primary subjects explored include the character of loads on aircraft, routes operated, results in passengers carried and efficiency of the service, costs of the service, question of subsidies, and probable future developments.
Date: 1924
Creator: Page, F. Handley
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An airship slide rule

Description: From Introduction: "This report prepared for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, describes an airship slide rule developed by the Gas-Chemistry Section of the Bureau of Standards, at the request of the Bureau of Engineering of the Navy Department."
Date: 1924%
Creator: Weaver, E. R. & Pickering, S. F.
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The American Airship ZR-3

Description: This airship was built by the Zeppelin Airship Company at Friedrichshafen in 1923-4, for the United States Navy, as the reparations service of the German Government in fulfillment of the treaty of peace. A description of the design, components, flight characteristics, blueprints, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1924
Creator: Dürr, L.
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Aviation Engines in the Endurance Contest

Description: The contest for engines of great endurance had entries of 13 types by the following firms: Breguet, Farman, Fiat, Hispano-Suiza, Lorraine-Dietrich, Panhard-Levassor, Peugeot, Renault, and Salmson.
Date: December 1924
Creator: Lehr, G.
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Balloon Flight and Atmospheric Electricity

Description: "The air is known to be charged with electricity (chiefly positive) with reference to the earth, so that its potential increases with the altitude and the difference in potential between two points in the same vertical line, divided by the distance between them, gives a value called the "potential gradient," which may vary greatly with the altitude, the nature of the ground and the atmospheric conditions" (p. 1).
Date: July 1924
Creator: Herrera, Emilio
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Calculation of the hull and of the car-suspension systems of airships

Description: Differential and integral curves are presented and well as numerous calculations relating to hulls. Some of the calculations include those relating to hulls, those relating to the invariability of the shape of the hulls, and those relating to the suspension of the hull.
Date: October 1924
Creator: Verduzio, R.
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Combustion of Liquid Fuels in Diesel Engine

Description: Hitherto, definite specifications have always been made for fuel oils and they have been classified as more or less good or non-utilizable. The present aim, however, is to build Diesel engines capable of using even the poorest liquid fuels and especially the waste products of the oil industry, without special chemical or physical preparation.
Date: October 1924
Creator: Alt, Otto
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Comparing the Performance of Geometrically Similar Airplanes

Description: "This note has been prepared for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. It deals with the model rules relating to aeronautical problems, and shows how the characteristics of one airplane can be determined from those of another airplane of different weight or size, and of similar type. If certain rules for the ratios of the dimensions, the weights and the horsepower are followed, a small low-powered airplane can be used for obtaining information as to performance, stability, controllab… more
Date: April 1924
Creator: Munk, Max M. & Warner, Edward P.
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Complete Study of Longitudinal Oscillation of a VE-7 Airplane

Description: "This investigation was carried out by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field in order to study as closely as possible the behavior of an airplane when it was making a longitudinal oscillation. The airspeed, the altitude, the angle with the horizon and the angle of attack were all recorded simultaneously and the resulting curves plotted to the same time scale. The results show that all the curves are very close to damped sine curves, with the curves for height and angl… more
Date: 1924
Creator: Norton, F. H. & Brown, W. G.
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Curvilinear Flight of Airplanes

Description: Note presenting an investigation of curvilinear flight, which is defined as steady horizontal flight in a circle in which no side slip occurs. The investigation occurred under very specific circumstances and rests on two basic assumptions, which are that the airplane lies correctly in the turn so the resultant of gravity and centrifugal force falls in the plane of symmetry and that the airplane must lie in the turn so that the axis coincides with the direction of motion.
Date: January 1924
Creator: Salkowski, E.
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Development of Wing-Steered Messerschmitt Gliders

Description: The present article is a brief report on the development and testing of the Messerschmidt glider that set a duration record of 21 minutes. Its most conspicuous characteristic was the placing of the steering gear entirely inside the fuselage and wings.
Date: June 1924
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