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Experiments on airfoils with trailing edge cut away

Description: "Airfoils with their trailing edge cut away are often found on aircraft, as the fins on the hulls of flying boats and the central section of the wings for affording better visibility. It was therefore of some interest to discover the effect of such cutaways on the lift and drag and on the position of the center of pressure. For this purpose, systematic experiments were performed on two different airfoils, a symmetrical airfoil and an airfoil of medium thickness, with successive shortenings of t… more
Date: September 1927
Creator: Ackeret, J.
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Accident-Severity Rates For Certain Metal Mines

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the severity of accidents in the metal-mine industry. 34 metal-mines documented the number and severity of all accidents over the course if one calendar year. This report includes tables.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Adams, William Waugh
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Experiments on Autorotation

Description: This article deals principally with Professor Bairstow's experiments on autorotation, in which the wing is free to rotate about an axis in its plane of symmetry, which axis is parallel with the direction of the wind.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Anderlik, E.
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Considerations on Propeller Efficiency

Description: The propeller cannot be considered alone, but the mutual interference between propeller and airplane must be considered. These difficulties are so great when the joint action of propeller and airplane is considered, that the aerodynamic laboratory at Gottingen originally abandoned the idea of applying the efficiency conception of the test results. These difficulties and the methods by which they are overcome are outlined in this report.
Date: September 1928
Creator: Betz, A.
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Welding of Stainless Materials

Description: "It would appear that welds in some stainless steels, heat-treated in some practicable way, will probably be found to have all the resistance to corrosion that is required for aircraft. Certainly these structures are not subjected to the severe conditions that are found in chemical plants. This article should be considered as an outline of what can be done, not necessarily as instructions, which will enable anyone to obtain satisfactory results in commercial work" (p. 1).
Date: September 1929
Creator: Bull, H. & Johnson, Lawrence
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Micarta propellers IV : technical methods of design

Description: A description is given of the methods used in design of Micarta propellers. The most direct method for working out the design of a Micarta propeller is to start with the diameter and blade angles of a wooden propeller suited for a particular installation and then to apply one of the plan forms suitable for Micarta propellers. This allows one to obtain the corresponding blade widths and to then use these angles and blade widths for an aerodynamic analysis.
Date: September 1924
Creator: Caldwell, F. W. & Clay, N. S.
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Building a Full-Size Glider

Description: The building and flying of a glider is possible for anyone who can use a few basic tools. This report presents some plans and techniques for building your own glider.
Date: September 1927
Creator: Camm, F. J.
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Wind Vane With Various Applications

Description: A design for a wind vane is presented and various applications are discussed. The equations that can be used to calculate effects on the aircraft using the vane and control assistance that can be provided using the wind vane are provided.
Date: September 1922
Creator: Constantin, M. Louis
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Recent Developments in the Construction and Operation of All-Metal Airplanes

Description: Experiments on the effect of atmosphere and of sea water on the building materials employed by us have been carried on for years in the North Sea with the aid of the Hamburg Naval Observatory. Parallel experiments are being made at the Pisa Naval Observatory in the Mediterranean Sea. Metal sheets, sections, assemblies and experimental floats are being exposed to the action of the elements. Different construction techniques are discussed and a variety of specific airplanes are presented which in… more
Date: September 1926
Creator: Dornier, C.
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Aviation Spirit - Past, Present, and Future

Description: The volatile fuel of the high-speed internal combustion engine has, in the past, consisted almost exclusively of the lighter distillates from crude petroleum. Alternative and supplementary fuels are discussed such as: tetraline, dekalin, alcohol, cyclo-hexenes.
Date: September 1923
Creator: Dunstan, A. E. & Thole, F. B.
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Problem of Glider Models

Description: Any one endeavoring to solve the problem of soaring flight is confronted not only by structural difficulties, but also by the often far more difficult aerodynamic problem of flight properties and efficiency, which can only be determined by experimenting with the finished glider. The report primarily considers open-air experiments with glider models and some specific elements of gliders that have been studied using these experiments.
Date: September 1922
Creator: Espenlaub, Lippisch
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Measurement of the Moments of Inertia of Full Scale Airplanes

Description: "This paper contains a description of the method of measuring the moments of inertia of full scale airplanes as practiced by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. The method, while not at all new, is published for the information and guidance of others who may desire to make similar measurements. The paper includes as an appendix the computations for the moments of inertia of 0-2 airplane" (p. 1).
Date: September 1927
Creator: Green, M. W.
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General Rules for Metal Aircraft Construction

Description: "The Commissariat of Aviation deems it expedient to issue a few rules of a general character which should be followed by constructors in designing aircraft, into the manufacture of which metal enters to a considerable extent. The materials covered include: aluminum, duralumin, soft steel, high-resistance steel, in sheets, tubing, and shaped elements" (p. 1).
Date: September 1924
Creator: Guidoni, Alessandre
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The Drag of Airships I

Description: Report presenting an examination of the drag of airships in order to design more functional aircraft and to obtain information for future research.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Havill, Clinton H.
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Performance of a vane driven-gear pump

Description: Given here are the results of a test conducted in a wind tunnel on the performance of a vane-driven gear pump used to pump gasoline upward into a small tank located within the upper wing from which it flows by gravity to the engine carburetor. Information is given on the efficiency of the pump, the head resistance of the vanes, the performance and characteristics of the unit with and without housing about the vanes, the pump performance when motor driven, and resistance and power characteristic… more
Date: September 1921
Creator: Heald, R. H.
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Viscosity of diesel engine fuel oil under pressure

Description: In the development of Diesel engine fuel injection systems it is necessary to have an approximate knowledge of the absolute viscosity of the fuel oil under high hydrostatic pressures. This report presents the results of experimental tests conducted by Mr. Jackson Newton Shore, utilizing the A.S.M.E. high pressure equipment.
Date: September 1929
Creator: Hersey, Mayo D.
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The Determination of Several Spray Characteristics of a High-Speed Oil Engine Injection System with an Oscilloscope

Description: An investigation was conducted to determine the injection lag, duration of injection, and spray start and cut-off characteristics of a fuel injection system operated on an engine and injecting fuel into the atmosphere. The results indicated that for the injection system investigated, the injection lag, in crank degrees, decreased with increase in engine speed for a constant quantity of fuel discharged, but was not affected at constant engine speed by varying the fuel quantity from approximately… more
Date: September 1928
Creator: Hicks, Chester W. & Moore, Charles S.
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Tests of the N.P.L. airship models in the variable density wind tunnel

Description: Report presenting testing in the variable density wind tunnel on two airship models known as the NPL Standardization Models, long and short. The resistance or shape coefficients were determined for each model through a range of Reynolds numbers. Further work is found to be necessary in the standardization of wind tunnels.
Date: September 1927
Creator: Higgins, George J.
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Welding Rustproof Steels

Description: The following experimental results will perhaps increase the knowledge of the process of welding rustproof steels. The experiments were made with two chrome-steel sheets and with two chrome-steel-nickel sheets having the composition shown in Table I.
Date: September 1929
Creator: Hoffmann, W.
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