The effect on airplane performance of the factors that must be considered in applying low-drag cowling to radial engines
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From Summary: "This report presents the results of flight tests with three different airplanes using several types of low-drag cowling for radial air-cooled engines. The greater part of the tests were made with a Curtiss XF7Cc-1 (Sea Hawk) with a 410 horsepower. Wasp engine, using three fuselage nose shapes and six types of outer cowling. The six cowlings were: a narrow ring, a wide ring, a wide cowling similar in the original NACA cowling, a thick ring incorporating an exhaust collector, a sin…
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Date:
November 25, 1931
Creator:
McAvoy, William H.; Schey, Oscar W. & Young, Alfred W.
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