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The Dewoitine D.500 Pursuit Airplane (French): An All-Metal Cantilever Low-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Dewoitine D.500 pursuit airplane, which is an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane. Details of the fuselage, cockpit, control surfaces, weapons, landing gear, fuel tanks, wing, engine, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1933
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The Comper "Mouse" Commercial Airplane (British): A Three-Seat Cabin Low-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Comper "Mouse" commercial airplane, which is a three-seat cabin low-wing monoplane. Details regarding the landing gear, wings, cabin, seating, fuselage, tail, power plant, controls, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: October 1933
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The Hanriot-Biche 110 C1 Airplane (French): An All-Metal Low-Wing Pursuit Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Hanriot-Biche 110 C1 airplane, which is a French all-metal low-wing pursuit monoplane. Details regarding the wing, girders and tail surfaces, pilot's cockpit, power plant, landing gear, flying qualities, and photographs are provided.
Date: July 1933
Creator: Rabion, René
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The Dewoitine D.332 Commercial Airplane (French): A Three-Engine All-Metal Low-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Dewoitine D.332, which is a commercial three-engine all-metal low-wing monoplane form France. Details of the construction history, wing, fuselage, power plant, landing gear, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: December 1933
Creator: Victor, Maurice
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The Boulton and Paul P.64 Mail-Carrier: A Two-Engine All-Metal Biplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Boulton and Paul P.64 high-performance mail-carrier. It is a two-engine tractor biplane that has been designed to give the specified normal speed with each engine throttled down to approximately half its output. Details of the landing gear, structural features, pilots' compartment, accommodation for mails, controls, power plant, and some flying qualities are provided.
Date: April 1933
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Wind-tunnel tests on model wing with Fowler flap and specially developed leading-edge slot

Description: From Summary: "An investigation was made in the NACA 7 by 10 foot wind tunnel to find the increase in maximum lift coefficient which could be obtained by providing a model wing with both a Fowler trailing-edge extension flap and a Handley Page type leading-edge slot. A conventional Handley page slot proportioned to operate on the plain wing without a flap gave but a slight increase with the flap; so a special form of slot was developed to work more effectively with the flap. With the best combi… more
Date: May 1933
Creator: Weick, Fred E. & Platt, Robert C.
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The Drag of Streamline Wires

Description: "Preliminary results are given of drag tests of streamline wires. Full-size wires were tested over a wide range of speeds in the N.A.C.A. high speed tunnel. The results are thus directly applicable to full-scale problems and include any compressibility effects encountered at the higher speeds. The results show how protuberances may be employed on conventional streamline wires to reduce the drag, and also show how the conventional wires compare with others having sections more like strut or symm… more
Date: December 1933
Creator: Jacobs, Eastman N.
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Simplified aerodynamic analysis of the cyclogiro rotating wing system

Description: A simplified aerodynamic theory of the cyclogiro rotating wing is presented herein. In addition, examples have been calculated showing the effect on the rotor characteristics of varying the design parameters of the rotor. A performance prediction, on the basis of the theory here developed, is appended, showing the performance to be expected of a machine employing this system of sustentation. The aerodynamic principles of the cyclogiro are sound; hovering flight, vertical climb, and a reasonable… more
Date: August 1933
Creator: Wheatley, John B.
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The Reduction in Drag of a Forward-Sloping Windshield

Description: "This paper gives results of a short investigation of the drag of a forward-sloping closed-cabin windshield. The drag of the windshield in both the original and a final modified form was determined from tests in the variable-density wind tunnel. The final form of the windshield was arrived at by modifying the original as the result of flow observations in the N.A.C.A. smoke tunnel. The investigation studied the utility of the N.A.C.A. smoke tunnel as applied to reducing the drag of objects for … more
Date: December 1933
Creator: Jacobs, Eastman N.
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Tank Tests of Two Floats for High-Speed Seaplanes

Description: "At the request of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, a study of the design of floats especially suitable for use on high-speed seaplanes was undertaken in the N.A.C.A. tank. This note give the results obtained in tests of one-quarter full-size models of two floats for high-speed seaplanes. One was a float similar to that used on the Macchi high-speed seaplane which competed in the 1926 Schneider Trophy races, and the other a float designed at the N.A.C.A. tank in an attempt to improve… more
Date: November 1933
Creator: Bell, Joe W.
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Comparison of Three Methods for Calculating the Compressive Strength of Flat and Slightly Curved Sheet and Stiffener Combinations

Description: "This report gives a comparison of the accuracy of the three methods for calculating the compressive strength of flat sheet and stiffener combinations such as occur in stressed-skin or monocoque structures for aircraft. Of the three methods based upon various assumptions with regard to the interaction of sheet and stiffener, the method based upon mutual action of the stiffener and an effective width as a column gave the best agreement with the results of the tests. An investigation of the effec… more
Date: March 1933
Creator: Lundquist, Eugene E.
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Effect of stabilizer location upon pitching and yawing moments in spins as shown by tests with the spinning balance

Description: Tests were made with the spinning balance in a 5-foot wind tunnel to study the effect of stabilizer location upon the pitching and yawing moments given by the tail surfaces in spinning attitudes. The tests revealed that the horizontal surfaces, when in a normal location, seriously reduced the effectiveness of the fin and rudder, particularly at angles of attack of 50 degrees or more. The tests also revealed that a more forward or more rearward location gave no consistent or decided improvement;… more
Date: November 1933
Creator: Bamber, M. J. & Zimmerman, C. H.
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The Aerodynamic Effect of a Retractable Landing Gear

Description: "Tests were conducted in the N.A.C.A. full scale wind tunnel at the request of the Army Air Corps to determine the effect of retractable landing gear openings in the bottom surface of a wing upon the characteristics of a Lockheed Altair airplane. The tests were extended to include the determination of the lift and drag characteristics throughout the angle-of-attack range with the landing gear both retracted and extended. Covering the wheel openings in the wing with sheet metal when the wheels w… more
Date: March 1933
Creator: DeFrance, Smith J.
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The effect of spray strips on a model of the P3M-1 flying boat hull

Description: This note presents the results of a series of tests made in the N.A.C.A. tank on a one-sixth full-size model of the hull and side floats of the Navy P3M-1 flying boat for the purpose of finding a method of reducing the amount of spray thrown into the propellers of this craft when taking off and landing. The model was tested without spray strips and with five different spray-strip arrangements. The best arrangement was an improvement over the bare hull with no spray strips, but the improvement w… more
Date: December 1933
Creator: Dawson, John R.
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Wind Tunnel Research Comparing Lateral Control Devices, Particularly at High Angles of Attack 8: Straight and Skewed Ailerons on Wings With Rounded Tips

Description: Tests showed the effect of the ailerons and the tip shapes on the general performance of the wing, as well as on the lateral control and stability characteristics. The hinge moments were not measured but the approximate values are given in the first report of the series.
Date: February 1933
Creator: Weick, Fred E. & Shortal, Joseph A.
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Effect of aileron displacement on wing characteristics

Description: The effect of aileron displacement on wing characteristics has been investigated for the Clark Y and the U.S.A. 27 wing sections equipped with rectangular ailerons. The airfoils, rectangular in plan, and having a 10 inch chord and 60 inch span, were mounted on a model fuselage.
Date: February 1933
Creator: Heald, R. H.
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The Effect of Split Trailing-Edge Wing Flaps on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Parasol Monoplane

Description: "This paper presents the results of tests conducted in the N.A.C.A. full-scale wind tunnel on a Fairchild F-22 airplane equipped with a special wing having split trailing-edge flaps. The flaps extended over the outer 90 percent of the wing span, and were of the fixed-hinge type having a width equal to 20 percent of the wing chord. The results show that with a flap setting of 59 degrees the maximum lift of the wing was increased 42 percent, and that the flaps increased the range of available gli… more
Date: November 1933
Creator: Wallace, Rudolf N.
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