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Testing a Windmill Airplane ("Autogiro")

Description: In order to clear up the matter ( In the Spanish report it was stated that the reference surface for the calculation of the coefficients c(sub a) and c(sub w) was the area of all four wings, instead of a single wing), the model of a windwill airplane was tested in the Gottingen wind tunnel.
Date: January 1927
Creator: Seiferth, R.
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Stall-Proof Airplanes

Description: Report investigating some characteristics of aircraft stall, including the following: Is the danger of stalling necessarily inherent in the airplane in its present form and structure, or can it be diminished or eliminated by suitable means? Do we possess such means or devices and how must they operate?
Date: January 1927
Creator: Lachmann, G.
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The Heat Treatment of Duralumin

Description: When certain light aluminum alloys are heat-treated, quenched and aged, there is considerable improvement in their tensile properties. This paper presents different methods of accomplishing these heat treatments.
Date: March 1927
Creator: Nelson, Wm.
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High-Speed Oil Engines for Vehicles Part 2

Description: "Further progress toward the satisfactory solution of the difficult problem of the distribution and atomization of the injected fuel was made by extensive experimentation with various fuel valves, nozzles, and atomizing devices. Valuable information was also obtained through numerous experimental researches on the combustion of oils and the manner of introducing the combustion air into the cylinder, as well as on the physical processes of atomization, the determination of the size of drops, etc… more
Date: March 1927
Creator: Hausfelder, Ludwig
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Duralumin Welding

Description: Gas and electric welding of duralumin are discussed. Some of the elements that go into determining a successful weld and inspecting for faults are also described.
Date: February 1927
Creator: Nelson, Wm.
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On the Mutual Reaction of Wings and Body

Description: "At the suggestion of Professor Von Karman, I have made a few theoretical investigations of the mutual reaction of the wings and body of an airplane. There was assumed as the basis of my calculations, a strongly idealized body shape, namely, a cylinder extended to infinity at both ends and having its axis parallel to the direction of motion of the airplane. The results are to be regarded as rough approximations for a long airplane body and also for an airship with fins. In my calculations, I ha… more
Date: February 1927
Creator: Lennertz, J.
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Climbing Efficiency of Aircraft

Description: The object of this report was to indicate that we frequently only make use of 50 percent of the maximum brake horsepower of the engine in taking off the ground, that this loss is not inevitable, and that the effort to get engines of low weight per horsepower by boosting revolutions is of very little use to bombers and commercial airplanes.
Date: June 1927
Creator: Walker, C. C.
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Drag measurements of two thin wing sections at different index values

Description: It is stated that the index value 6000, as found in normal tests of wing sections with a 20 cm chord, falls in the same region where the transition of laminar to turbulent flow takes place on thin flat plates. It is to be expected that slightly cambered, thin wing sections will behave similarly. The following test of two such wing sections were made for the purpose of verifying this supposition.
Date: June 1927
Creator: Ackeret, J.
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Experiments With Three Horizontal Empennages

Description: The main objective of these experiments was to determine how the air forces on the whole empennage are affected by varying the size of the elevator without changing the size of the whole empennage. The secondary objective was to determine how the magnitude of the air forces acting on the elevator (or the elevator moments) are affected by varying the angle of attack of the whole empennage, or of the elevator alone.
Date: July 1927
Creator: Seiferth, R.
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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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Some Notes on Gasoline-Engine Development

Description: Experiments were carried out using a special engine with small glass windows and a stroboscope to record various aspects of engine performance. Valve position, supercharging, and torque recoil were all investigated with this experimental apparatus.
Date: July 1927
Creator: Ricardo, H. H.
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Aero Dopes and Varnishes

Description: Report discussing before proceeding to discuss the preparation of dope solutions, it will be necessary to consider some of the essential properties which should be possessed of a dope film, deposited in and on the surface of an aero fabric. The first is that it should tighten the material and second it should withstand weathering.
Date: July 1927
Creator: Britton, H. T. S.
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Lindbergh's Flight

Description: Memorandum describing the flights of Charles Lindbergh and some of the calculations that go into the determination of the amount of fuel required, drag, and weight for his trip.
Date: August 1927
Creator: Von Parseval, August
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Discussion of the results of the boundary-layer tests of an airfoil fitted with a rotary cylinder

Description: The results of the velocity measurements in the boundary layer described in NACA-TM 411 are here discussed in greater detail. The measurements made were of the velocity distribution in the vicinity of an airfoil model fitted with a rotary cylinder and were undertaken for the purpose of obtaining a closer insight into the phenomena observed in experimenting with this model.
Date: August 1927
Creator: Wolff, E. B. & Koning, C.
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Seaplanes floats and hulls. Part 1

Description: This part of the report presents characteristics and graphic representations of water resistance. The laws of similarity are discussed as well as the theory of model tests. The test procedures and model tests of other countries are also discussed.
Date: August 1927
Creator: Herrmann, H.
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