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N.A.C.A. Flight-Path Angle and Air-Speed Recorder

Description: "A new trailing bomb-type instrument for photographically recording the flight-path angle and air speed of aircraft in unaccelerated flight is described. The instrument consists essentially of an inclinometer, air-speed meter and a film-drum case. The inclinometer carries an oil-damped pendulum which records optically the flight-path angle upon a rotating motor-driven film drum. The air-speed meter consists of a taut metal diaphragm of high natural frequency which is acted upon by the pressure … more
Date: April 1926
Creator: Coleman, Donald G.
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The characteristics of the N.A.C.A. M-12 airfoil section

Description: The data obtained on the NACA M-12 airfoil, tested at twenty atmosphere density in the NACA variable density wind tunnel, have been extended by additional tests at one and at twenty atmospheres under improved conditions. The results of these tests are given. Considerable scale effect was found.
Date: August 1926
Creator: Higgins, George J.
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The Drag of Airships : II - Drag of Bare Hulls

Description: "The extension of wind tunnel tests of models of airship hulls to full scale requires an extension from a VL of the order of less than 500 sq.ft./sec., to that of 80000 sq.ft./sec., where V = air speed, feet per second, L = length in feel of the particular form of hull. The reason for this research was to furnish the airship designer with a method for finding the VL curve of any conventional type of hull, using data obtained from actual performance of airships flown prior to 1926" (p. 1).
Date: October 1926
Creator: Havill, Clinton H.
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Effect of Protruding Gasoline Tanks Upon the Characteristics of an Airfoil

Description: Note presenting an investigation to determine the effect of a gasoline tank protruding from the center section of a wing on the aerodynamic characteristics of the wing. The results are presented in the form of polar curves, curves of D/L against lift coefficient, and the curves of lift and drag coefficient against the angle of attack.
Date: October 1926
Creator: Jacobs, Eastman N.
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The effect of tube length upon the recorded pressures from a pair of static orifices in a wing panel

Description: Report presenting an investigation to determine the effect of tubing length on the indicated pressure values as ascertained in the pressure distribution measurements on the PW-9. The purpose was to determine the percentage of error in the pressure readings which might be caused by various lengths of tubing between the pressure orifices and pressure cell at the manometer. The differences in head caused by variations in the length of tubing are small, the lowest recorded being zero, the highest 2… more
Date: November 1926
Creator: Carroll, T. & Mixon, R. E.
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Improving the Performance of a Compression Ignition Engine by Directing Flow of Inlet Air

Description: "The object of this report is to present the results of tests performed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to determine the effect on engine performance of directing the flow of the inlet air to a 5-inch by 7-inch cylinder, solid injection, compression ignition engine, After a few preliminary tests, comparative runs were made at a speed of 1500 r.p.m. with and without directed air flow. It was found that directing the flow of the inlet air toward the fuel injection valve gave st… more
Date: July 1926
Creator: Kemper, Carlton
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Influence of the Orifice on Measured Pressures

Description: "The influence of different orifices on the result of measuring the same pressure distributions is the subject of this note. A circular cylinder is exposed to an air stream perpendicular to its axis and its pressure distribution is repeatedly determined. The pressures measured on the downstream half of the cylinder do not change for the orifice sizes used in the tests" (p. 1).
Date: November 1926
Creator: Hemke, Paul E.
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An investigation of the characteristics of steel diaphragms for automatic fuel-injection valves

Description: "This research on steel diaphragms was undertaken at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, as a part of a general investigation on fuel injection engines for aircraft. The work determined the load-deflection, load- deformation and hysteresis characteristics for single diaphragms having thicknesses from 0.00s inch to 0.012 inch, and for similar diaphragms tested in multiple having total thicknesses from 0.012 inch to 0.180 inch. The elastic limit loads and deflections, and rupture points… more
Date: April 1926
Creator: Joachim, W. F.
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The Lateral Failure of Spars

Description: It was concluded that after the critical span or depth-breadth ratio has been reached, the modulus of rupture varies approximately inversely as the first power of the span and of the depth-breadth ratio. The direction of the lateral deflection is alternate between successive supports. For this reason, we believe that rib spacing along the spar is more important in reducing lateral deflection than the distance between supports at the strut points.
Date: March 1926
Creator: Bromley, Stevens & Robinson, William H., Jr.
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The N.A.C.A. CYH airfoil section

Description: The NACA CYH airfoil section is described and its aerodynamic characteristics are given as tested in the NACA variable density wind tunnel at twenty atmosphere pressure. This section has a low drag, a high maximum lift, and a small travel of center of pressure.
Date: June 1926
Creator: Higgins, George J.
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Navy Propeller Section Characteristics as Used in Propeller Design

Description: "This report contains artificial aerodynamic characteristics of a set of propeller sections to be used in designing propellers by means of the blade element theory. Characteristics computed from model propeller tests for a single section are extended to cover sections of Navy propeller sections at high Reynolds Number in the variable density tunnel of the NACA" (p. 1).
Date: August 1926
Creator: Weick, Fred E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Propeller Design - A Simple System Based on Model Propeller Test Data -III

Description: "This report, the third of a series of four, describes a simple system for designing propellers of a standard form. In this report, the system is based on tests of a family of model propellers of standard Navy form, the data from which have been extended by means of calculations to cover the complete range likely to be found in practice. However, it can be worked out for any family having propellers of one general form" (p. 1).
Date: May 1926
Creator: Wieck, Fred E.
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Propeller Design: Extension of Test Data on a Family of Model Propellers by Means of the Modified Blade Element Theory 2

Description: This report is the second of a series of four on propeller design, and describes the method used to extend the data obtained from tests on a family of thirteen model propellers to include all propellers of the same form likely to be met in practice. This necessitates the development of a method of propeller analysis which when used to calculate the powers and efficiencies gives results which check the tests throughout their range.
Date: May 1926
Creator: Weick, Fred E.
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Propeller Design: Practical Application of the Blade Element Theory 1

Description: "This report is the first of a series of four on propeller design and contains a description of the blade elements or modified Drzewiecke theory as used in the Bureau of Aeronautics, U.S. Navy Department. Blade interference corrections are used which were taken from R.& M. NO. 639 of the British Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airfoil characteristics used were obtained from tests of model propellers, not from tests of model wings" (p. 1).
Date: May 1926
Creator: Weick, Fred E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Report on Tests of Metal Model Propellers in Combination With a Model VE-7 Airplane

Description: This report, prepared at the request of the NACA, describes tests of three metal model propellers, in a free air stream and in front of a model of a VE-7 airplane. The effect of introducing the model airplane is shown to be an increase in thrust and power coefficients and efficiency at small slip, and a decrease in the same at large slip.
Date: August 1926
Creator: Lesley, E. P.
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Resistance of a fifteen-centimeter disk

Description: "The results of this test show that the dynamic scale has very little effect on the drag coefficient of a disk over a wide range of Reynolds Number. A comparison of these results with those of tests made on a series of disks at Göttingen University furnishes a good check on the method of testing in this tunnel" (p. 1).
Date: December 1926
Creator: Shoemaker, James M.
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The Resistance to the Steady Motion of Small Spheres in Fluids

Description: "There seems to be little reliable information conveniently available as to the resistance encountered by small spheres moving steadily at moderate speeds in fluids. The present paper, while presenting nothing new in the way of either theory or data, has three objects: first to show that published data are sufficient to furnish approximate information; second to present this information in form convenient for computation; and, third to indicate where further research is needed" (p. 1).
Date: February 1926
Creator: Castleman, R. A.
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The Spacing of Orifices for the Measure of Pressure Distributions

Description: "The following report has been prepared for publication by the NACA. Suitable locations of orifices for the measurement of pressure distributions have been discussed. Tables are given for quickly laying out these locations and for quickly and easily computing the resultant air forces from the result of the measurements" (p. 1).
Date: January 1926
Creator: Munk, Max M.
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Steam Power Plants in Aircraft

Description: "The employment of steam power plants in aircraft has been frequently proposed. Arguments pro and con have appeared in many journals. It is the purpose of this paper to make a brief analysis of the proposal from the broad general viewpoint of aircraft power plants. Any such analysis may be general or detailed" (p. 1).
Date: June 1926
Creator: Wilson, E. E.
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Test of a Model Propeller With Symmetrical Blade Sections

Description: "This report, prepared at the request of NACA, gives the results of tests on a model propeller having blade sections with form of Gottingen airfoil no. 409. The model is shown to have a dynamic pitch practically equal to the nominal or geometrical pitch, and a somewhat higher efficiency but lower coefficient than would be expected of a propeller of more conventional sections" (p. 1).
Date: September 1926
Creator: Lesley, E. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Tests of Several Bearing Materials Lubricated by Gasoline

Description: "This investigation on the relative wear of several bearing materials lubricated by gasoline was conducted at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, as part of a general research on fuel injection engines for aircraft. The specific purpose of the work was to find a durable bearing material for gear pumps to be used for the delivery of gasoline and diesel engine fuel oil at moderate pressures to the high pressure pumps of fuel injection engines" (p. 1).
Date: July 1926
Creator: Joachim, W. F. & Case, Harold W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Wind Tunnel Standardization Disk Drag

Description: Note presenting the resistances of a series of three similar disks placed normal to the wind as determined in the atmospheric wind tunnel. The curves of drag coefficient plotted against Reynolds number for this tunnel show discrepancies between overlapping values which are to be attributed to the presence of the tunnel walls.
Date: December 1926
Creator: Knight, Montgomery
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