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Albert TE-1 Training Airplane

Description: The TE-1 is designed for the economical training of pilots and is a single seat parasol cantilever monoplane. It is nearly entirely made of wood, using a 40 HP. air-cooled Salmson A.D. 9 engine, and weighs 255 kg empty.
Date: December 1926
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Wibault Two-Seat Monoplane 8C2: An All-Metal Pursuit and Observation Airplane

Description: Michel Wibault's two seat monoplane 8C2, is similar to the Parasol pursuit monoplane which preceded it. It has no perishable parts in its structure and needs no special storage or coverings. The sample aeroplane uses a 500 HP Hispano-Suiza engine but can accept a 400-600HP engine from a variety of manufacturers with little difficulty. It uses a two blade tractor propeller.
Date: June 1926
Creator: Serryer, J.
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The A.N.E.C. IV "Missel Thrush" light airplane

Description: A product of the Air Navigation Engineering Co., the Missel Thrush is a light airplane suitable for private ownership. It is a two seat tractor fuselage biplane with single I interplane struts designed by J. Bewsher.
Date: November 1926
Creator: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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Avia Pursuit Airplane B.H. 21

Description: Built by the 'Czecho-Slovakian' aircraft factory, AVIA, the B.H. 21, has a top speed of 250 MPH, and carries 120 kg of gasoline and 20 kg of oil, giving it a radius of action of 600-650 km. It is equipped with a Hispano-Suiza engine capable of 300 HP. Details of the design, structure, wings, stabilizer, fuselage, controls, fuel tanks, landing gear, tail, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1926
Creator: Serryer, J.
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Recent Developments in the Construction and Operation of All-Metal Airplanes

Description: Experiments on the effect of atmosphere and of sea water on the building materials employed by us have been carried on for years in the North Sea with the aid of the Hamburg Naval Observatory. Parallel experiments are being made at the Pisa Naval Observatory in the Mediterranean Sea. Metal sheets, sections, assemblies and experimental floats are being exposed to the action of the elements. Different construction techniques are discussed and a variety of specific airplanes are presented which in… more
Date: September 1926
Creator: Dornier, C.
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Development of Light and Small Airplanes

Description: Memorandum presenting an overview of the development of light and small airplanes. Some of the characteristics explored include the development of airplanes of medium weight, development in countries other than Germany, development of light airplanes, general constructive fiducial lines, safety problems, the economy problem, and some special structural considerations are provided.
Date: July 1926
Creator: Lachmann, G.
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Spindled and Hollow Spars

Description: "The most usual method of arriving at the maximum amount of spindling or hollowing out permissible in the case of any particular spar section is by trial and error, a process which is apt to become laborious in the absence of good guessing - or luck. The following tables have been got out with the object of making it possible to arrive with certainty at a suitable section at the first attempt" (p. 1).
Date: October 1926
Creator: Blyth, J. D.
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The De Havilland "Moth"

Description: Officially designated D.H. 60, De Havilland's Moth is a small, simply made, 770 lb. aircraft. It has had it's fittings reduced in number to assist in this, seats 2 (including pilot) and uses a Cirrus 60 HP. engine.
Date: October 1926
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The Supermarine "Southampton" Seaplane: Observation or Bomber

Description: Purchased for the British Air Ministry, the Southampton seaplane uses 2 Napier Lion engines and has a boat hull with outriggers mounted on the wings. It was designed as a military aircraft and can be easily converted to a bomber. A description of the design, flight characteristics, and photographs and blueprints are provided.
Date: December 1926
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The Handley Page "Hamlet"

Description: The Hamlet is a three engine high wing monoplane of comparatively small size, fitted with three Bristol Lucifer series IV engines of 130 HP. each, and designed to carry a pilot and four passengers. Details of the layout, wings, slot and flap gear, fuselage, characteristics, performance, and drawings are provided.
Date: November 1926
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Digest of Some of the Speeches Made at the Fifteenth Regular Meeting of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Für Luftfahrt: June 17, 1926, in Dusseldorf, Germany

Description: Memorandum presenting a description of some of the speeches made at the fifteenth regular meeting of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Luftfahrt. Many of the speeches were conducted on aircraft design and construction, but some covered topics like statistics.
Date: September 1926
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Photographic Time Studies of Airplane Paths

Description: The object of this report is the description of a method which seems to be practicable for determining the path of an airplane, especially in taking off and landing. This report tells how, by means of a camera, preferably a kinetograph, which simultaneously photographs a stop watch the distance of an airplane from the camera and its height above the ground can be determined.
Date: January 1926
Creator: Von Baumhauer, A. G.
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Experimental Investigation of the Physical Properties of Medium and Heavy Oils, Their Vaporization and Use in Explosion Engines Part 4

Description: This report presents a theoretical treatment of the vaporization process of medium and heavy oils. The results of this investigation, which were mostly obtained from the lighter components of the heavy fuels, require a 10- or 16-fold vaporization in comparison with gasoline. We must attain a still finer degree of atomization, in order to include the heavier components.
Date: December 1926
Creator: Heinlein, Fritz
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Functioning of Reduction Gears on Airplane Engines

Description: "In undertaking to analyze the functioning conditions of a reduction gear on an aviation engine, we will consider an ordinary twelve-cylinder V-engine. The reduction gear employed consists either of a pair of spur gears, one of which is integral with the engine shaft and the other with the propeller shaft, or of a planetary system of gears" (p. 1).
Date: March 1926
Creator: Matteucci, Raffaelli
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On the Knocking of Gasoline Engines

Description: Report presenting an investigation of the phenomenon of knocking in gasoline engines and some of the problems that it may cause. It is of the greatest importance, not only for automobile engines, but also for every other kind of internal combustion engine, since it limits the degree of compression and the thermal efficiency and its investigation indicates ways for saving fuel.
Date: July 1926
Creator: Richter, Ludwig
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Two-Stroke-Cycle Engines for Airplanes

Description: Now that the two-stroke-cycle engine has begun to make its appearance in automobiles, it is important to know what services we have a right to expect of it in aeronautics, what conditions must be met by engines of this type for use on airplanes and what has been accomplished.
Date: January 1926
Creator: Jalbert, J.
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