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Aerodynamic characteristics and flying qualities of a tailless triangular-wing airplane configuration as obtained from flights of rocket-propelled models at transonic and supersonic speeds

Description: Report discussing a flight investigation of rocket-powered models of a tailless triangular-wing airplane configuration was made through the transonic and low supersonic speed range at the Langley Pilotless Aircraft Research Station at Wallops Island, Va. An analysis of the aerodynamic coefficients, stability derivatives, and flying qualities based on the results obtained from the successful flight tests of three models is presented.
Date: November 1956
Creator: Mitcham, Grady L.; Stevens, Joseph E. & Norris, Harry P.
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Aerodynamic characteristics at Reynolds numbers of 3.0 x 10(exp 6) and 6.0 x 10(exp 6) of three airfoil sections formed by cutting off various amounts from the rear portion of the NACA 0012 airfoil section

Description: Report presenting an investigation of the two-dimensional aerodynamic characteristics of three airfoil sections formed by removing various portions of the original chord from the trailing edge of the NACA 0012 airfoil section. Results regarding lift, drag, and pitching moment and aerodynamic center are provided.
Date: April 1950
Creator: Smith, Hamilton A. & Schaefer, Raymond F.
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Aerodynamic characteristics of 15 NACA airfoil sections at seven Reynolds numbers from 0.7 x 10(exp 6) to 9.0 x 10(exp 6)

Description: Report presenting an investigation of the two-dimensional aerodynamic characteristics of 15 NACA airfoils at four Reynolds numbers. The results indicate that the drag coefficient at the design lift coefficient and the maximum lift coefficient are the most important aerodynamic characteristics and are most affected by Reynolds number changes.
Date: October 1949
Creator: Loftin, Laurence K., Jr. & Smith, Hamilton A.
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Circular Cylinder at Mach Number 6.86 and Angles of Attack Up to 90 Degrees

Description: "Pressure-distribution and force tests of a circular cylinder have been made in the Langley 11-inch hypersonic tunnel at a Mach number of 6.88, a Reynolds number of 129,000, and angles of attack up to 90 degrees. The results are compared with the hypersonic approximation of Grimminger, Williams, and Young and a simple modification of the Newtonian flow theory. An evaluation of the crossflow theory is made through comparison of present results with available crossflow Mach number drag coefficien… more
Date: January 1957
Creator: Penland, Jim A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Model Wing Having a Split Flap Deflected Downward and Moved to the Rear

Description: "Tests were made on a model wing with three different sized split trailing-edged flaps, in the NACA 7 by 10 foot wind tunnel. The flaps were formed of the lower rear portion of the wing and were rotated downward about axes at their front edges. The lift, drag, and center of pressure were measured with the axis in its original position and also with it moved back in even steps to the trailing edge of the main wing, giving in effect an increase in area. The split flaps when deflected about their … more
Date: May 1932
Creator: Weick, Fred E. & Harris, Thomas A.
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Number of Modified NACA Four-Digit-Series Airfoil Sections

Description: Report presenting theoretical pressure distributions and experimental aerodynamic characteristics at low speeds for a group of NACA four-digit series airfoil sections. Results regarding lift, drag, and pitching moment are provided.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Loftin, Laurence K., Jr. & Cohen, Kenneth S.
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Refined Deep-Step Planing-Tail Flying-Boat Hull with Various Forebody and Afterbody Shapes

Description: From Introduction: "The results of one phase of this investigation, presented in reference 1, have indicated that hull drag can be reduced without causing large changes in aerodynamic stability and hydrodynamic performance by the use of high length-beam ratios. Another phase of the investigation, reference 2, indicated that hulls of the deep-step planning-tail type have much lower air drag than the conventional type of hull and about the same aerodynamic stability; tank tests, reference 3, have… more
Date: June 1952
Creator: Riebe, John M. & Naeseth, Rodger L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Small-Scale Shrouded Propeller at Angles of Attack From 0 to 90 Degrees

Description: Note presenting an investigation to determine the effects of airspeed and angle of attack on the lift, drag, and pitching moment of a shrouded-propeller model with a shroud length of about two-thirds the propeller diameter over an angle of attack from 0 to 90 degrees. Tests were made of the complete model with the propeller operating and also of the shroud and motor combination with the propeller removed.
Date: November 1955
Creator: Parlett, Lysle P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic characteristics of a two-blade NACA 10-(3)(062)-045 propeller and of a two-blade NACA 10-(3)(08)-045 propeller

Description: Report discussing characteristics are given for the two-blade NACA 10-(3)(062)-045 propeller and for the two-blade NACA 10-(3)(08)-045 propeller over a range of advance ratio from 0.5 to 3.8, through a blade-angle range from 20 degrees to 55 degrees measured at the 0.75 radius. Maximum efficiencies of the order of 91.5 to 92 percent were obtained for the propellers. The propeller with the thinner airfoil sections over the outboard portion of the blades, the NACA 10-(3)(062)-045 propeller, had l… more
Date: January 1953
Creator: Solomon, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Aerodynamic Characteristics of Airfoils as Affected by Surface Roughness

Description: "The effect on airfoil characteristics of surface roughness of varying degrees and types at different locations on an airfoil was investigated at high values of the Reynolds number in a variable density wind tunnel. Tests were made on a number of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) 0012 airfoil models on which the nature of the surface was varied from a rough to a very smooth finish. The effect on the airfoil characteristics of varying the location of a rough area in the region o… more
Date: April 1933
Creator: Hooker, Ray W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The aerodynamic characteristics of an aspect-ratio-20 wing having thick airfoil sections and employing boundary-layer control by suction

Description: Report presenting an investigation to study the aerodynamic characteristics of an aspect-ratio-20 wing with thick airfoil sections and employing boundary-layer control by suction. The results include the effects of varying suction flow rate, suction-slot configuration, wing surface condition, flap deflection, and Mach number are provided.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Cocke, Bennie W., Jr.; Fink, Marvin P. & Gottlieb, Stanley M.
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Anemometer Cups

Description: From Introduction: "The investigation was intended to cover the characteristics of individual cups and of similar cups mounted on complete cup wheals. This report treats the static tests run on the individual cups."
Date: February 1934
Creator: Brevoort, M. J. & Joyner, U. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Damping Screens

Description: From Summary: "The experimental investigation of damping screens described herein was undertaken primarily to test theories of the effects of damping screens and to obtain information on the performance of screens in oblique flow. The characteristics investigated include the damping of longitudinal and lateral components of turbulence, the effect of screens on scale, the conditions for the production of turbulence and eddies by screens, and the damping of spatial variations of mean speed."
Date: January 1950
Creator: Schubauer, G. B.; Spangenberg, W. G. & Klebanoff, P. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic characteristics of NACA 0012 airfoil section at angles of attack from 0 degrees to 180 degrees

Description: Report presenting the aerodynamic characteristics of the NACA 0012 airfoil section at a range of angles of attack from 0 to 180 degrees. Data were obtained at two different Reynolds numbers depending on whether the airfoil surfaces were smooth or had roughness applied at the leading and trailing edges. After the stall with the rounded edge of the airfoil foremost, a second lift-coefficient peak was obtained at an angle of attack of about 45 degrees.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Critzos, Chris C.; Heyson, Harry H. & Boswinkle, Robert W., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic characteristics of several 6-percent-thick airfoils at angles of attack from 0 degrees to 20 degrees at high subsonic speeds

Description: Report presenting two-dimensional tests of eight 6-percent-thick symmetrical airfoils of the supersonic and subsonic types. Static pressures along the surfaces of each airfoil measured over a range of Mach numbers and angles of attack. Results regarding lift coefficient, drag coefficient, quarter-chord pitching-moment coefficient, and schileren photographs of the pressure distributions are provided.
Date: May 1955
Creator: Daley, Bernard N. & Lord, Douglas R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Several Airfoils of Low Aspect Ratio

Description: "This paper presents the results of wind-tunnel tests of several airfoils of low aspect ratio. The airfoils included three circular Clark Y airfoils with different amounts of dihedral, two Clark Y airfoils with slots in their portions, and three flat-plate airfoils. Lift, drag, and pitching-moment characteristics of the slotted airfoils with slots open and closed; pitching moment characteristics of one of the slotted airfoils with slots open and closed; and lift characteristics of the flat-plat… more
Date: August 1935
Creator: Zimmerman, C. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The aerodynamic characteristics of six commonly used Airfoils over a large range of positive and negative angles of attack

Description: From Summary: "This paper presents the results of tests of six commonly used airfoils: the CYH, the N-22, the C-72, the Boeing 106, and the Gottingen 398. The lifts, drags, and pitching moments of the airfoils were measured through a large range of positive and negative angles of attack. The tests were made in the variable density wind tunnel of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at a large Boeing 106, and the Gottingen 398 airfoils, the negative maximum lift coefficients were foun… more
Date: November 1931
Creator: Anderson, Raymond F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic characteristics of the NACA 8-H-12 airfoil section at six Reynolds numbers from 1.8 x 10(exp 6) to 11.0 x 10(exp 6)

Description: Report presenting an investigation in the two-dimensional low-turbulence pressure tunnel to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of the NACA 8-H-12 airfoil section at four Reynolds numbers. The section lift, drag, and pitching-moment characteristics are presented for smooth and rough surface conditions. Generally, no unusual scale effects are present for either condition.
Date: December 1949
Creator: Schaefer, Raymond F. & Smith, Hamilton A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic characteristics of the NACA 64-010 and 0010-1.10 40/1.051 airfoil sections at Mach numbers from 0.30 to 0.85 and Reynolds numbers from 4.0 x 10(exp. 6) to 8.0 x 10(exp. 6)

Description: Report presenting an investigation in the low-turbulence pressure tunnel to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of NACA 64-010 and 0010-1.10 airfoil sections. The investigation covered a range of Mach and Reynolds numbers.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Loftin, Laurence K., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Three Deep-Step Planing-Tail Flying-Boat Hulls and a Transverse-Step Hull with Extended Afterbody

Description: From Summary: "An investigation was made to determine the aerodynamic characteristics in the presence of a wing of three-step planning-tail flying-boat hulls which differed only in the amount of step fairing. The purpose of comparison, tests were also made of a transverse-step hull with an extended afterbody."
Date: August 1952
Creator: Riebe, John M. & Naeseth, Rodger L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The aerodynamic characteristics of three tapered airfoils tested in the variable density wind tunnel

Description: From Summary: "This report contains the lift, drag, and moment characteristics of tapered Clark Y, Gottingen 393, and USA 45 airfoils as obtained from tests made in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel of the NACA. The results are given at both low and high Reynolds Numbers to show scale effect and to provide data for use in airplane design."
Date: February 1931
Creator: Anderson, Raymond F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aerodynamic coefficients for an oscillating airfoil with hinged flap, with tables for a Mach number of 0.7

Description: From Introduction: "The fundamental integral equation for the pressure distribution on an oscillating thin airfoil moving at subsonic speed has been derived by Possio in reference 1. Collocation procedures have been used by Possio, Frazer, and Skan, and others to obtain lift and moment on an oscillating first plate. An important contribution has been made by Dietze (see reference 2 and 3), who has developed an iterative procedure for numerical solution of Possio's integral equation."
Date: October 1950
Creator: Turner, M. J. & Rabinowitz, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The aerodynamic design and calibration of an asymmetric variable Mach number nozzle with a sliding block for the Mach number range 1.27 to 2.75

Description: From Introduction: "This paper presents the basic design method and experimental results of calibration of a nozzle which was constructed to conform to the analytically determined ordinates."
Date: April 1953
Creator: Burbank, Paige B. & Byrne, Robert W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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