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A Mechanical Device for Illustrating Airplane Stability

Description: An instrument is described which will illustrate completely in a qualitative sense the longitudinal stability characteristics of an airplane. The instrument is primarily of use for the lecture room, but it is hoped that ultimately it will be possible to obtain quantitative results from it.
Date: December 1921
Creator: Norton, F. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Development of Electrical Strain Gages

Description: "The design, construction, and properties of an electrical-resistance strain gage consisting of fine wires molded in a laminated plastic are described. The properties of such gages are discussed and also the problems of molding of wires in plastic materials, temperature compensation, and cementing and removal of the gages. Further work to be carried out on the strain gage, together with instrument problems, is discussed" (p. 1).
Date: January 1940
Creator: de Forest, A. V. & Leaderman, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lathes

Description: A guide to the operation and maintenance of lathes for general shop work.
Date: November 29, 1940
Creator: United States. Army. Air Corps.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Simplified Instrument for Recording and Indicating Frequency and Intensity of Icing Conditions Encountered in Flight

Description: Memorandum presenting an instrument for recording and indicating the frequency and intensity of aircraft icing conditions to obtain statistical icing data over worldwide air routes during routine airline operations. Data of this type is needed to provide pertinent meteorological information necessary for the optimum design of ice-protection systems. The features that make this particular instrument desirable include the simplicity of operation, freedom from maintenance and operating problems, a… more
Date: July 3, 1951
Creator: Perkins, Porter J.; McCullough, Stuart & Lewis, Ralph D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wind-Tunnel Investigation of a Number of Total-Pressure Tubes at High Angles of Attack -- Subsonic, Transonic, and Supersonic Speeds

Description: "The effect of inclination of the airstream on the measured pressures of 54 total-pressure tubes has been determined for angles of attack up to 60 degrees and over a Mach number range from 0.26 to 1.62. The investigation was conducted in five wind tunnels at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory" (p. 495).
Date: January 17, 1956
Creator: Gracey, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Static-pressure error calibrations for nose-boom airspeed installations of 17 airplanes

Description: Report presenting a flight investigation to determine the static-pressure errors for nose-boom airspeed installations of 17 airplanes. Both research-type and service-type aircraft are covered in the investigation. Results indicated that the magnitude of static-pressure errors for the airspeed installations of all the airplanes is shown to vary with airplane geometric characteristics that include nose-boom length, fuselage diameter, and nose fineness ratio.
Date: March 13, 1957
Creator: Larson, Terry J.; Stillwell, Wendell H. & Armistead, Katharine H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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