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Calculated effects of full-span slotted and Fowler flaps on longitudinal stability and control characteristics for a typical fighter-type airplane with various tail modifications

Description: Report presenting an analytical study of the influence of full-span slotted and Fowler flaps on the requirements for horizontal tail surfaces. The elevator deflection required to land at three-point attitude, elevator deflection required to stall the airplane at altitude, and permissible center-of-gravity range have been calculated for a fighter-type airplane.
Date: July 1942
Creator: Goranson, R. Fabian
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Calculation of tab characteristics for flight conditions from wind-tunnel data

Description: Report presenting tail-surface characteristics calculated from wind-tunnel data, which have been reported to not correspond with flight-test measurements. The primary problem under consideration is the calculation of the effect of tab deflection on the free-floating angle of the elevator, as in a servocontrol.
Date: April 1942
Creator: Sears, Richard I.
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Calibrations of pitot-static tubes at high speeds

Description: Report presenting the calibrations of three types of service pitot-static tubes over an approximate range of speeds of 150 to 600 miles per hour. The calibrations indicated a need for a pitot-static tube with greater accuracy, especially at higher speeds. Results regarding the service tubes, Prandtl tube, Eigh-speed tube, and a comparison of the tubes are provided.
Date: July 1942
Creator: Hensley, Reece V.
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Characteristics of beveled-trailing-edge elevators on a typical pursuit fuselage at altitudes simulating-normal flight and spin conditions

Description: Report presenting lift and elevator hinge-moment characteristics were measured on horizontal tail provided with elevators having three different beveled trailing edges. Results regarding fuselage alone and fuselage interference, lift characteristics of fuselage-tail combination, elevator hinge-moment characteristics, drag, and comparison with data from two-dimensional-flow tests are provided.
Date: December 1942
Creator: Gillis, Clarence L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Characteristics of plain and balanced elevators on a typical pursuit fuselage at attitudes simulating normal-flight and spin conditions

Description: Report presenting lift and elevator hinge-moment characteristics of a horizontal tail with various plain and balanced elevators and mounted on a typical pursuit fuselage as measured in the 7- by 10-foot wind tunnel at attitudes simulating normal-flight and spin conditions. The lift effectiveness of the elevator was practically independent of the size of the aerodynamic balance. Results regarding the fuselage alone and fuselage interference, lift characteristics of fuselage-tail combinations, li… more
Date: March 1942
Creator: Sears, Richard I. & Hoggard, H. Page, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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The Characteristics of Two Model Six-Blade Counterrotating Pusher Propellers of Conventional and Improved Aerodynamic Design

Description: Two airfoil plans were used for propeller blades. One is modified Clark Y section designed for structural reliability and the second an NACA 16 airfoil section designed to produce minimum aerodynamic losses. At low air speeds, the propeller designed for aerodynamic effects showed a gain of from 1.5 to 4.0 percent in propulsive efficiency over the conventional type depending on the pitch. Because of the numerous variables involved, the effect of each one on the aerodynamic characteristics of the… more
Date: June 1942
Creator: McHugh, James G. & Pepper, Edward
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Chromite and quicksilver deposits of the Del Puerto area, Stanislaus County, California

Description: From Introduction: "The present report is based on 10 weeks of field work from mid-November 1940 until late January 1941, and 4 days in May 1941. An area of 5 1/2 square miles in and about Del Puerto Canyon was mapped on a scale of 600 feet to 1 inch, and two small areas in the vicinity of the Adobe Canyon and Black Bart chromite mines were mapped on a scale of 200 feet to 1 inch."
Date: 1942
Creator: Hawkes, H. E., Jr.; Wells, Francis G. & Wheeler, D. P., Jr.
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Chromite Deposits of Red Bluff Bay and Vicinity, Baranof Island, Alaska

Description: From introduction: The Red Bluff Bay area was examined briefly for the Geological Survey by John C. Reed and others in 1939. During the summer of 1941 the writers, with R. E. L. Rutledge, mapped this area on a scale of 1:12,000, and examined the serpentine masses in the interior during the course of reconnaissance trips into the surrounding region.
Date: 1942
Creator: Guild, Philip White & Balsley, James R., Jr.
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Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1939

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1942
Creator: Adams, William W.; Geyer, L. E. & Parry, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1940

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1942
Creator: Adams, William W.; Geyer, L. E. & Parry, M. G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Comparison of Intercooler Characteristics

Description: Report presenting a method of comparing the performance, weight, and general dimensional characteristics of intercoolers. The performance and dimensional characteristics covered in the comparisons include cooling effectiveness, pressure drops and weight flows of the charge and cooling air, power losses, volume, frontal area, and width.
Date: November 1942
Creator: Reuter, J. George & Valerino, Michael F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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A comparison of the results from general tank tests of 1/6- and 1/12-full-size models of the British Singapore IIC flying boat

Description: From Summary: "A 1/6-full-size model of the hull of the British Singapore IIC flying boat was tested in the NACA tank. The results are given in the form of charts and are compared with the results of previous tests made in the NACA tank of a 1/12-full-size model, published in NACA T.N. No. 580, and with the results of tests made in the British R.A.E. tank of another 1/6-full-size model of the same hull. When the data from the tests of the 1/6- and 1/12-full-size models were compared on the basi… more
Date: August 1942
Creator: Truscott, Starr & Dawson, John R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Comparison of tightness of 78 degrees machine-countersunk rivets driven in holes prepared with 78 degrees and 82 degrees countersinking tools

Description: Report presenting an investigation to determine whether the use of a 78 degree countersinking tool instead of a 82 degree countersinking tool for riveting would substantially alter the conclusion reached in a previous paper regarding the placement of rivets for maximum strength.
Date: September 1942
Creator: Gottlieb, Robert & Mandel, Merven W.
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The Compressible Potential Flow Past Elliptic Symmetrical Cylinders at Zero Angle of Attack and with No Circulation

Description: "For the tunnel corrections of compressible flows those profiles are of interest for which at least the second approximation of the Janzen-Rayleigh method can be applied in closed form. One such case is presented by certain elliptical symmetrical cylinders located in the center of a tunnel with fixed walls and whose maximum velocity, incompressible, is twice the velocity of flow. In the numerical solution the maximum velocity at the profile and the tunnel wall as well as the entry of sonic velo… more
Date: October 1942
Creator: Hantzsche, W. & Wendt, H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Construction of Finned Aluminum Muffs for Aircraft Engine Cylinder Barrels

Description: "This report describes the material, cutting-tool development, and machining procedure used in constructing an air-cooled cylinder barrel having a cooling muff with 2-inch fins spaced 1/8 inch. Details of two types of thread form used for the barrel to head assembly with the cooling muff are also presented" (p. 1).
Date: April 1942
Creator: Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Contribution to the Design of Plywood Shells

Description: "The writer sets out to prove by calculation and experiment that by extensive utilization of the skin to carry axial load (reduction of stringer spacing) the stringer sections can be made small enough to afford a substantial saving in structural weight. This saving ranges from 5 to about 40 percent" (p. 1).
Date: October 1942
Creator: Blumrich, S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Contribution to the ideal efficiency of screw propellers

Description: From Summary: "The stipulation of best thrust distribution is applied to the annular elements of the screw propeller with infinitely many blades in frictionless, incompressible flow and an ideal jet propulsion system derived possessing hyperbolic angular velocity distribution along the blade radius and combining the advantage of uniform thrust distribution over the section with minimum slipstream and rotation losses. This system is then compared with a propeller possessing the same angular velo… more
Date: January 1942
Creator: Hoff, Wilhelm
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Control-Motion Studies of the PBM-3 Flying Boat in Abrupt Pull-Ups

Description: Report presenting a control-motion study in flight that is part of series covering a range of types and sizes of modern airplanes. This particular one involves the PBM-3 flying boat, which is equipped with a control mechanism typical of the cable-type systems in large transport, cargo, or bomber airplanes as well as those employed in flying boats. The elasticity of the elevator control system of the PBM-3 was such to limit the obtainable acceleration to about 3g for center-of-gravity positions … more
Date: November 1942
Creator: Pearson, Henry A. & Smull, Leland K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Control of Torsional Vibrations by Pendulum Masses

Description: "Various versions of pendulum masses have been developed abroad within the past few years by means of which resonant vibrations of rotating shafts can be eliminated at a given tuning. They are already successfully employed on radial engines in the form of pendulous counterweights. Compared with the commonly known torsional vibration dampers, the pendulum masses have the advantage of being structurally very simple, requiring no internal damping and being capable of completely eliminating certain… more
Date: November 1942
Creator: Stieglitz, Albert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Cooling in Cruising Flight With Low Fuel-Air Ratios

Description: Report presenting testing of a Pratt & Whitney R-1830-43 engine mounted in a B-24D nacelle in the full-scale wind tunnel in order to investigation the potential improvements of fuel economy. Suggestions for improving the cruising power and cruising range by operating at specified fuel-air ratios are provided.
Date: June 1942
Creator: Silverstein, Abe & Wilson, Herbert A., Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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