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The Morane Sauliner 222 Airplane (French): A Single-Seat Pursuit Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting the Morane Saulnier 222 airplane, which is a single-seat pursuit monoplane. A description of the components, design, characteristics, performance, photographs, and drawings are provided.
Date: December 1929
Creator: Frachet, André
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The d.h."Dragon Moth" Commercial Airplane (British): A Twin-Engine 6-Passenger Biplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the De Havilland Dragon Moth, or D.H. 84, which is the first twin-engine airplane built by this particular company. Details of the design, components, flight characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: January 1933
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Nieuport-Delage Pursuit Airplane 48 C. 1.: "Jockey" Type

Description: This is a light single-seat pursuit airplane with a tractor propeller actuated by a 12 cylinder V-type Hispano-Suiza engine giving 400 HP at 2000 R.P.M. This is a single winged aircraft capable of 273 km/h.
Date: January 1927
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The Latécoère 521 "Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris" Commercial Flying Boat (French): A Two-Deck Six-Engine Semicantilever Sesquiplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Latécoère 521, which was the largest aircraft built in France at the time. A more detailed description of the wings, hull, accommodation for passengers and officers, fuel system, controls, and flight characteristics is provided.
Date: March 1936
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Blériot Combat Monoplane 127 (French)

Description: The 127 is a cantilever monoplane without external bracing. It is designed to accompany and protect bombardment and observation aircraft. Descriptions of the airfoil, fuselage, power plant, landing gears, and armament are provided.
Date: November 1928
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The British Klemm "Eagle" Commercial Airplane: A Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the British Klemm "Eagle", which is a low-wing commercial cantilever monoplane. Details of the components, flying qualities, design characteristics, weights and loadings, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: August 1934
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The Amiot S.E.C.M. 110 C.1 : A Single-Seat Pursuit Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Amiot S.E.C.M. 110 C.1, which is a single-seat pursuit monoplane. Some of the design principles that the aircraft was built from are provided. A description of the design, components, dimensions, flight characteristics, and photographs are provided.
Date: July 1929
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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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Compressibility and Heating Effects on Pressure Loss and Cooling of a Baffled Cylinder Barrel

Description: Report presenting testing to obtain experimental confirmation of the effect of air compressibility on cooling and pressure loss of a baffled cylinder barrel and to evaluate various methods of analysis. Testing occurred over a wide range of air flows and density altitudes.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Goldstein, Arthur W. & Ellerbrock, Herman H., Jr.
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The Knock-Limited Performance of S Reference Fuel Plus 2 Milliliters of Triethylthallium Per Gallon

Description: Report discusses the results of testing of thallium as an antiknock agent in an internal-combustion engine. From Introduction: "On a weight basis, the thallium vapors were found to have several times the antiknock value of tetraethyl lead, which was added to the fuel. The amount of thallium vapor necessary to raise the antiknock properties of a gasoline up to exact equivalence with a benzol-gasoline mixture was determined in these engine tests."
Date: November 1945
Creator: Meyer, Carl L.
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"Villiers 24" Slotted-Wing Airplane (French): Night Pursuit Sesquiplane

Description: The Villiers 24 C.A.N. 2 is a night pursuit sesquiplane equipped with the 450 HP direct-drive Lorraine 12 Eb engine. It is characterized by Handley Page slotted wings. Details of the construction, wings, flaps, controls, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1928
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The critical velocity of a body towed by a cable from an airplane

Description: It is sufficient to consider only the equations of motion of the towed body whereas those of the cable may be left out of consideration. The result obtained makes it possible to determine which factors affect the critical velocity and what modifications of the instrument are necessary for extending the upper limit of that velocity.
Date: July 1937
Creator: Koning, C. & DeHaas, T. P.
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The De Havilland "Moth Three" Airplane (British): A High-Wing Commercial Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the De Havilland Moth Three, which is a high-wing commercial monoplane with a steeply sloping windshield, strut-bracing of the wing, and relatively orthodox landing gear. Details of the construction, design, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1930
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A method for studying the hunting oscillations of and airplane with a simple type of automatic control

Description: Report presenting a method for predicting the amplitude and frequency, under certain simplifying conditions, of the hunting oscillations of an automatically controlled aircraft with lag in the control system or in response of the aircraft to the controls. Formulas are given expressing the response to a variation of signal in terms of response to a unit signal.
Date: May 1944
Creator: Jones, Robert T.
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Performance of B. M. W. 185-Horsepower Airplane Engine

Description: "This report deals with the results of a test made upon a B. M. W. Engine in the altitude chamber of the Bureau of Standards, where controlled conditions of temperature and pressure can be made to simulate those of the desired altitude. A remarkably low value of fuel consumption - 041 per B. H. P. hour - is obtained at 1,200 revolutions per minute at an air density of 0.064 pound per cubic foot and a brake thermal efficiency of 33 per cent and an indicated efficiency of 37 per cent at the above… more
Date: 1922
Creator: Sparrow, S. W.
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The Shackleton-Murray SM-1 Light Airplane: A Two-Place High-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the light airplane SM-1, which was designed by W. S. Shackleton and Lee Murray. Information regarding the design and flight characteristics and some photographs of the airplane are provided.
Date: June 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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