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Armstrong-Whitworth A.W. 15 "Atlanta" Airplane (British): A Commercial Multiplace Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Armstrong Whitworth XV "Atalanta" airplane, which is a commercial multiplace cantilever monoplane. Details of the wings, landing gear, fuselage, control surfaces, structural design, wing, engine, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: August 1932
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The Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 16 Military Airplane (British): A Single-Seat Biplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the A.W. XVI, which is a single-bay staggered biplane of metal construction with a clean external design. A description of the tail unit, control system, cockpit, fuselage, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: January 1932
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The S.A.B.C.A. "S.XI" Commercial Airplane (Belgian): A High-Wing Semicantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the S.A.B.C.A. S.XI commercial airplane, which is a high-wing semicantilever monoplane. Details of the history of its creation, its design, components, engines, fuel tanks, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1932
Creator: Frachet, André
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The S.P.C.A. 30 M.4 Military Airplane (French): A Multiplace Low-Wing Airplane

Description: Circular describing the S.P.C.A. 30 M.4 multiplace, which is an aircraft designed to carry four people that can be used as a fighter aircraft or a day or night bomber. Details of the design, components, engines, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: September 1932
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The D.H. "Fox Moth" Commercial Airplane (British): A Three-Passenger Light Cabin Biplane

Description: Circular describing the D.H. 83 "Fox Moth", which is a three-passenger light cabin biplane that is considered a commercial airplane despite taking many of its components from the company's existing two-seat touring and training light airplanes. A description of these components, design, flight characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1932
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Nieuport-Delage 590 Military Airplane (French): A Two-Place High-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Nieuport-Delage 590 three-engine colonial cantilever monoplane, which meets the requirements of the program established by the French Government. Information is provided regarding the design, construction, and instruments are provided.
Date: November 1932
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The Avro 631 Training Airplane (British): A Two-Seat Light Biplane

Description: Circular describing the Avro 631 training airplane, which is a British two-seat light biplane that is meant to be affordable and small. Details regarding the wings, fuselage, tail unit, landing gear, power plant, accommodation, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1932
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The Farman Night Bombers 211 and 212 (French): Four-Engine High-Wing Monoplanes

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Farman night bombers 211 and 212, which are four-engine high-wing monoplanes that are equipped with different engines. Details of the wing structure, fuselage, tail surface and controls, landing gear, power plant, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: July 1932
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Spartan "Cruiser" Commercial Airplane (British): A Six-Seat Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Spartan "Cruiser", which is a six-seat low-wing cantilever commercial monoplane with three engines. Details of the construction, fuselage, wing, tail unit, power plant, fuel system, lubrication system, landing gear, controls, cabin arrangement, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: August 1932
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The C.A.M.S. 80 Amphibian (French): An Observation Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the C.A.M.S. 80, which is a shipboard or observation patrol, light-bombing, long-range amphibian. Details of the hull, landing gear, wing, tail surfaces, power plant, front cockpit, pilot's compartment, photographer's compartment, radio cabinet, rear gunner's cockpit, stern compartment, and flying qualities are provided.
Date: March 1932
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Airplane Flight in the Stratosphere

Description: This brief survey of the problems encountered in high-altitude flight deals in particular with the need for high lift coefficient in the wings, large aspect ratios in the wings, and also the problem of hermetically sealing the cabin.
Date: February 1932
Creator: de Caria, Ugo
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Problems Concerning the Stability and Maneuverability of Airplanes

Description: "The stability of an airplane can be easily determined by wind-tunnel tests, especially by simple tests with models mounted wind-vane fashion. However, each stability curve plotted by this method is valid only for a certain setting of the corresponding control surface, i.e., it characterizes the stability of the airplane with the control stick in a given position. The problems thus defined are studied from the point of view of longitudinal and transverse stability. Directional stability is not … more
Date: March 1932
Creator: Biche, Jean
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Accurate Calculation of Multispar Cantilever and Semicantilever Wings With Parallel Webs Under Direct and Indirect Loading

Description: In the present report the computation is actually carried through for the case of parallel spars of equal resistance in bending without direct loading, including plotting of the influence lines; for other cases the method of calculation is explained. The development of large size airplanes can be speeded up by accurate methods of calculation such as this.
Date: March 1932
Creator: Sänger, Eugen
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The Mutual Action of Airplane Body and Power Plant

Description: The present report concerns the development of general propeller performance and r.p.m. curves which, combined with the general curve of the power required for level flight, presents a complete picture of the performance. The curve of power required for level flight in this paper is only an approximation for constant profile drag coefficient, meaning that it is not suitable to unconventional wing sections.
Date: April 1932
Creator: Schrenk, Martin
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Application of the Theory of Free Jets

Description: Based upon Kirchoff's theory of free jets the flow through different screen arrangements of flat plates, as chiefly encountered with turbines in the cavitation zone is defined. It is shown by experiments that these theoretical results are very well representative in most cases of the conditions of discharge from water in air and consequently by cavitation. In addition, the experiments reveal a picture of the discrepancies between the actual flow and the theory of discharge of air in air (of wat… more
Date: April 1932
Creator: Betz, A. & Petersohn, E.
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Turbulence and Mechanism of Resistance on Spheres and Cylinders

Description: The nature of turbulent flow through pipes and around obstacles is analyzed and illustrated by photographs of turbulence on screens and straighteners. It is shown that the reversal of flow and of the resistance law on spheres is not explainable by Prandtl's turbulence in the boundary layer. The investigation of the analogous phenomena on the cylinder yields a reversal of the total field of flow.
Date: January 1932
Creator: Ahlborn, F.
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Dynamic Testing of Airplane Shock-Absorbing Struts

Description: "Measurement of perpendicular impacts of a landing gear with different shock-absorbing struts against the drum testing stand. Tests were made with pneumatic shock absorbers having various degrees of damping, liquid shock absorbers, steel-spring shock absorbers and rigid struts. Falling tests and rolling tests. Maximum impact and gradual reduction of the impacts in number and time in the falling tests. Maximum impact and number of weaker impacts in rolling tests" (p. 1).
Date: January 1932
Creator: Langer, P. & Thomé, W.
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Twelfth Rhon Soaring Contest, 1931

Description: The crew of the "Fafnir" was given an excellent opportunity for collecting first-hand data as to the usefulness of gliders in the Alps. It is necessary to recount the remarkable glider achievements ahead of the Rhon Soaring Contest, in order to understand the tension and expectation with which the Rhon contest was anticipated. A description of some of the aircraft present at the event is provided.
Date: May 1932
Creator: Georgii, Walter
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German Aircraft Accident Statistics, 1930

Description: The investigation of all serious accidents, involving technical defects in the airplane or engine, is undertaken by the D.V.L. in conjunction with the imperial traffic minister and other interested parties. All accidents not clearly explained in the reports are subsequently cleared up.
Date: March 1932
Creator: Weitzmann, Ludwig
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