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Blériot Combat Monoplane 127 (French)

Description: The 127 is a cantilever monoplane without external bracing. It is designed to accompany and protect bombardment and observation aircraft. Descriptions of the airfoil, fuselage, power plant, landing gears, and armament are provided.
Date: November 1928
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"Villiers 24" Slotted-Wing Airplane (French): Night Pursuit Sesquiplane

Description: The Villiers 24 C.A.N. 2 is a night pursuit sesquiplane equipped with the 450 HP direct-drive Lorraine 12 Eb engine. It is characterized by Handley Page slotted wings. Details of the construction, wings, flaps, controls, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1928
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The A.N.E.C. IV "Missel Thrush" light airplane

Description: A product of the Air Navigation Engineering Co., the Missel Thrush is a light airplane suitable for private ownership. It is a two seat tractor fuselage biplane with single I interplane struts designed by J. Bewsher.
Date: November 1926
Creator: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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Avia Pursuit Airplane B.H. 21

Description: Built by the 'Czecho-Slovakian' aircraft factory, AVIA, the B.H. 21, has a top speed of 250 MPH, and carries 120 kg of gasoline and 20 kg of oil, giving it a radius of action of 600-650 km. It is equipped with a Hispano-Suiza engine capable of 300 HP. Details of the design, structure, wings, stabilizer, fuselage, controls, fuel tanks, landing gear, tail, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1926
Creator: Serryer, J.
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Rules and Regulations for Endurance Contest of Aviation Engines: Under the Auspices of the Aero Club of France

Description: Memorandum presenting the rules and regulations of the Endurance Contest of Aviation Engines, which was put on by the Aero Club of France. A description of the rules regarding the aircraft in competition, the characteristics of the tests that were conducted, and information regarding classification of the aircraft is provided.
Date: November 1923
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The Pitcairn "Mailwing" PA-5: A Single-Seat Commercial Biplane

Description: The Mailwing is a single seat biplane designed primarily for mail and express delivery. It has a cargo capacity of 500 to 600 lbs. Details regarding the construction, engine, fuel tank, wings, tail, landing gear, propeller, control, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1927
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The Handley Page "Hamlet"

Description: The Hamlet is a three engine high wing monoplane of comparatively small size, fitted with three Bristol Lucifer series IV engines of 130 HP. each, and designed to carry a pilot and four passengers. Details of the layout, wings, slot and flap gear, fuselage, characteristics, performance, and drawings are provided.
Date: November 1926
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Lockheed "Vega" airplane: a commercial cabin monoplane

Description: The Vega is a high wing monoplane suitable for commercial purposes. It can seat 6 passengers or 100 cubic feet of cargo. Various characteristics of the aircraft are described, including the wings, control surfaces, landing gear, and power plant.
Date: November 1927
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Practical Underground Education of the Coal Miner

Description: Report describing information that should be provided for miners when they are first being trained on-site, as well as an explanation about the education program offered by the Practical Mining School at Dawson, New Mexico.
Date: November 1927
Creator: Grove, G. W.
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The Meaning of Specifications for Gasoline and Kerosene

Description: Report on how to identify good gasoline and kerosene, written for the average citizen, with an explanation of purchaser and supplier relationships.
Date: November 1926
Creator: Kraemer, A. J.
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Compressibilities of gases

Description: Reproduction of thirteen graphs for computing compressibilities of various gases and for computing the volumes delivered from cylinders containing various gases.
Date: November 21, 1925
Creator: Pickering, Samuel Fisher
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Tests on Duralumin Columns for Aircraft Construction

Description: The following paper is based on the results of tests, upon duralumin columns, contained in two theses presented to the Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Date: November 1924
Creator: Lee, John G.
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Static Soaring Flight Over Flat Sea Coasts

Description: Static soaring flight has hitherto been accomplished by means of two sources of energy: ascending air currents in the vicinity of obstacles and those produced by unequal heating. The latter has not yet been practically tested in soaring flight.
Date: November 1923
Creator: Georgii, W.
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Effect of Altitude on Power of Aviation Engines

Description: "These notes are intended to furnish practical and general data on the effect of altitude on engine power. The effective horsepower of an engine is a function of the mean pressure of the fluid acting on the pistons, of the R.P.M. of the engine and of the mechanical efficiency" (p. 1).
Date: November 1924
Creator: Raffaelli, Italo
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Recent Progress in the Theoretical Deduction of Airplane Wings

Description: The designing of an airplane requires an accurate knowledge of the aerodynamic properties of its wings, as expressed in the polar diagram. It is important to continue the theoretical researches on the aerodynamic phenomena of wings, in order to determine by calculation, their fundamental characteristics and to increase and formulate our knowledge in this field.
Date: November 1925
Creator: Panetti, M.
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Possibility of Profitable Air Traffic Between Lisbon and Rio De Janeiro

Description: Different aspects of an airship line between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro are presented. Some of the factors discussed are: the number of passengers, fuel consumption, design, itinerary, airports, flight times, and income.
Date: November 1923
Creator: Sherz, Walter
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Structural Details of German Gliders

Description: The structural details such as wings, fuselage, landing gear, and steering organs of German gliders are detailed in this report.
Date: November 1927
Creator: Gymnich, Alfried
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Approximation method for determining the static stability of a monoplane glider

Description: The calculations in this paper afford an approximate solution of the static stability. A derivation of the formulas for moment coefficient of a wing, moment coefficient of elevator, and the total moment of the combined wing and elevator and the moment coefficient with reference to the center of gravity are provided.
Date: November 1927
Creator: Lippisch, A.
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Unsymmetrical Forces in an Airplane Cell

Description: This paper calls attention to the desirability of expanding airplane building regulations to include proof of safety for cases of unsymmetrical loading, at least in the structural members which are thereby specially stressed. The flight cases involve increases of the customary load assumptions through rudder deflection and aileron deflection.
Date: November 1929
Creator: Vogt, R.
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Mathematical and Experimental Investigation of Heat Control and Power Increase in Air-Cooled Aircraft Engines

Description: In order to understand the numerical relations between the air velocity, temperature of the cylinder walls, heat dissipation, cylinder dimensions and type of construction an experimental plant was installed in the Siemens and Halske laboratory. The experimental cylinder was exposed to the air stream of a wind tunnel. The compression chamber was heated by an electrically heated oil bath kept constantly in motion by a stirrer. The wall temperatures were measured by thermocouples.
Date: November 1929
Creator: Gosslau, F.
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Rigid Airships

Description: Memorandum presenting the history and development of airships. Tables containing information and statistics regarding some of the current airships are provided.
Date: November 1923
Creator: Stahl, Friedrich
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