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The Choice of Wing Sections for Airplanes

Description: "The subject of the choice of an airfoil section is by no means a closed one, and despite the impossibility of making a single rule serve, it is quite practicable to deduce in a strictly rational manner a series of rules and formulas which are capable of being of the greatest use if we but confine ourselves to the consideration of one element of performance at a time. There are seven such elements of performance which are here taken up in turn. The seven are of different relative importance in … more
Date: November 1921
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
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Report on the General Design of Commercial Aircraft

Description: Given here are evaluations of six different European aircraft from the point of view of a passenger. The aircraft discussed are the DH 34, the Handley-Page W8B, the Farman Goliath, the Potez IX, the Spad 33 (Berline), and the Fokker F.III. The airplanes were evaluated with regard to seating comfort, ventilation, noise, seating arrangements, cabin doors, baggage accommodation, interior arrangement of cabins, pilot's position and communication with the pilot, pilot accommodations, view from the c… more
Date: September 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
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Wind Tunnel Tests of Five Strut Sections in Yaw

Description: In the first series of wind tunnel tests, the drag and cross wing force of all the struts were measured at a wind speed of 30 mph and at angles of yaw from 0 degrees to 20 degrees. To determine the magnitude of the VL effect, each strut was tested at zero yaw and at a series of speeds ranging from 15 to 38 mph. Although designed as fairings for cables, part of these sections gave such high crosswind forces that they seemed to have possibilities as airfoils.
Date: November 1923
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Drift of an Aircraft Guided Towards Its Destination by Directional Receiving of Radio Signals Transmitted From the Ground

Description: Following a curved path increases the distance to be flown, and a type of radio navigation that forces the adoption of such a path is therefore less efficient than one that marks out a definite straight line between the point of departure and the intended destination, and holds the airplane to that line. To determine the loss of efficiency resulting from curvature of the path, calculations were made for two particular cases by the method of step-by-step integration. The calculations were based … more
Date: June 1925
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wind Tunnel Tests of Fuselages and Windshields

Description: "The tests described herein were made in 1918, in the old four-foot wind tunnel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the request of the Engineering Division of the U.S. Army Air Service. The results were given circulation only in official circles at that time. The interest of the work appears sufficient to justify its wider distribution even at this very late date" (p. 1).
Date: September 1925
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Estimation of Airplane Performance From Wind Tunnel Tests on Conventional Airplane Models

Description: Calculations of the magnitude of the correction factors and the range of their variations for wind tunnel models used in making aircraft performance predictions were made for 23 wind tunnel models. Calculated performances were compared with those actually determined for such airplanes as have been built and put through flight test. Except as otherwise noted, all the models have interplane struts and diagonal struts formed to streamwise shape. Wires were omitted in all cases. All the models were… more
Date: May 1925
Creator: Warner, Edward P. & Ober, Shatswell
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Comparing the Performance of Geometrically Similar Airplanes

Description: "This note has been prepared for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. It deals with the model rules relating to aeronautical problems, and shows how the characteristics of one airplane can be determined from those of another airplane of different weight or size, and of similar type. If certain rules for the ratios of the dimensions, the weights and the horsepower are followed, a small low-powered airplane can be used for obtaining information as to performance, stability, controllab… more
Date: April 1924
Creator: Munk, Max M. & Warner, Edward P.
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