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Flight Investigation of Wing-Gun Fairings on a Fighter Type Airplane

Description: Description is given of flight tests conducted on gun fairings, designed to correct the detrimental effects of the projecting and submerged wing guns on an F4F-3 fighter. It was found that the installation of unfaired guns on a clean wing resulted in a premature stall that increased the stalling speed in the carrier-approach and landing conditions of flight by suitably fairing the guns, it was possible to reduce the stalling speeds to values approaching very nearly the clean-wing values.
Date: October 1941
Creator: Nissen, J. M. & White, M. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flight Tests of Various Tail Modifications on the Brewster XSBA-1 Airplane 1: Measurements of Flying Qualities With Original Tail Surfaces

Description: Report presenting a series of tests of the Brewster XSBA-1 airplane conducted to determine the effect of various tail modifications. The current report describes an investigation of flying qualities of the airplanes with its original tail surfaces. Testing regarding longitudinal stability and control and stalling characteristics are provided.
Date: June 1943
Creator: Phillips, W. H. & Nissen, J. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurements of the Flying Qualities of a Hawker Hurricane Airplane

Description: Report presenting an investigation of the flying qualities of a Hawker Hurricane airplane. Thirteen flights and approximately 17 hours of flying time were required to complete the tests, which included extensive measurements of stability, controllability, and stalling characteristics. The results were similar to the flying qualities of other previously studied pursuit airplanes.
Date: April 1942
Creator: Nissen, J. M. & Phillips, W. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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