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Calculation of Tapered Monoplane Wings

Description: The tapered wing shape increases the lift in the middle of the wing and thus reduces the bending moment of the lifting forces in the plane of symmetry. Since this portion of the wing is the thickest, the stresses of the wing material are reduced and desirable space is provided for stowing the loads in the wing. This statically excellent form of construction, however, has aerodynamic disadvantages which must be carefully weighed, if failures are to be avoided. This treatise is devoted to the con… more
Date: August 1930
Creator: Amstutz, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pressure distribution over a Douglas wing tip on a biplane in flight

Description: "This note presents the results obtained in pressure distribution tests on the right upper wing panel and tip of a Douglas M-3 airplane in flight. These tests are a part of a more extensive investigation of the effect of changes in tip shape on the load distribution, the tip reported herein being the first of a series of tip shapes being tested. The results are given in tables and curves in such form that the load distribution for any conditions may be determined easily. Tests were made at Lang… more
Date: August 1930
Creator: Rhode, Richard V. & Lundquist, Eugene E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pressure distribution over the fuselage of a PW-9 pursuit airplane in flight

Description: "This report presents the results obtained from pressure distribution tests on the fuselage of a PW-9 pursuit airplane in a number of conditions of flight. The investigation was made to determine the contribution of the fuselage to the total lift in conditions considered critical for the wing structure, and also to determine whether the fuselage loads acting simultaneously with the maximum tail loads were of such a character as to be of concern with respect to the structural design of other par… more
Date: August 1, 1930
Creator: Rhode, Richard V. & Lundquist, Eugene E.
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Structural Details of German Light Airplanes

Description: This report presents a review of German light airplane construction. Some of the topics discussed include: engines, fuselages, wings, landing gear, and other mechanical parts.
Date: August 1930
Creator: Schrenk, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Theory of the Landing Impact of Seaplanes

Description: The present investigation is an endeavor to express the jolting stresses, designated as landing impacts, undergone by seaplanes in landing and taking off from rough water, as functions of specific factors, in order to enable the evaluation of empirically obtained results and thus acquire theoretical data for the construction of seaplane floats and hulls.
Date: August 1930
Creator: Pabst, Wilhelm
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effect of variation of chord and span of ailerons on hinge moments at several angles of pitch

Description: This report presents the results of an investigation of the hinge moments of ailerons of various chords and spans on two airfoils having the Clark Y and USA-27 wing sections, supplementing the investigations described in NACA-TR-298 and NACA-TR-343, of the rolling and yawing moments due to similar ailerons on these two airfoil sections. The measurements were made at various angles of pitch, but at zero angle of roll and yaw, the wing chord being set at an angle of +4 degrees to the fuselage axi… more
Date: August 11, 1930
Creator: Monish, B. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Rolling Moments Due to Rolling and Yaw for Four Wing Models in Rotation

Description: "This report presents the results of a series of autorotation and torque tests on four different rotating wing systems at various rates of roll and at several angles of yaw. The investigation covered an angle of attack range up to 90 degrees and angles of yaw of 0 degree, 5 degrees, 10 degrees, and 20 degrees. The tests were made in a 5-foot, closed-throat atmospheric wind tunnel. The object of the tests was primarily to determine the effects of various angles of yaw on the rolling moments of t… more
Date: August 19, 1930
Creator: Knight, Montgomery & Wenzinger, Carl J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Avro 627 "Mailplane" (English): A Single-Seat Biplane

Description: Circular describing the Avro 627 Hailplane, which is a single-seat biplane designed for delivering air mail. Details regarding the fuselage, wings, tail, landing gear, power installation, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: August 1931
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Breguet 390 T Commercial Airplane (French): A Ten-Seat All-Steel Sesquiplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Breguet 390 T, which is a three-engine all-metal transport sesquiplane with the same structural principles as the Breguet military airplane. This aircraft design replaces a girder fuselage with an orthodox rectangular fuselage with accommodations for ten passengers and baggage. Details of the design, components, flying qualities, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: August 1931
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A comparison of the aerodynamic characteristics of the normal and three reflexed airfoils in the variable density wind tunnel

Description: "An investigation was made of the aerodynamic effects of reflexing the trailing edge of three commonly used airfoils. Six airfoils were used in the investigation: three having the normal profiles of the Navy 60, the Boeing 106, and the Gottingen 398, and three having these profiles modified to obtain a reflexed trailing edge with the mean camber line changed to give Cmc/4=0. The tests were conducted at a value of the Reynolds Number of approximately 3,100,000 in the variable density wind tunnel… more
Date: August 1931
Creator: DeFoe, George L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Downwash Measurements Behind Wings With Detached Flow

Description: This investigation, which was made in the small wind tunnel having a diameter of 1.2 m (3.94 feet), embraced three wing models, behind which, at various angles of attack between 0 and 60 degrees, the static pressure and the total pressure along vertical lines (perpendicular to the direction of the undisturbed wind and to the wing span) were measured. The location of these vertical lines are indicated in Figure 1. Moreover, the wing polars were determined by the customary three-component measure… more
Date: August 1931
Creator: Petersohn, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effect of Nose Shape on the Characteristics of Symmetrical Airfoils

Description: Tests of nine symmetrical airfoils, having different leading-edge radii, were made in the variable density wind tunnel. Three symmetrical NACA airfoils having maximum thickness-to-chord ratio of 0.06, 0.012, and 0.018 were used as basic (or normal) sections; and for each of these thicknesses one thinner and one blunter nose section were developed. Although the slope of the lift curve varies with thickness, these tests show that for any given thickness the slope is independent of nose radius.
Date: August 1931
Creator: Pinkerton, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effect of Viscosity in Speed Measurements With Double-Throat Venturi Tubes

Description: In order to clarify the viscosity effect some experiments were made in the Gottigen low-pressure tunnel with the Bruhn double-throat Venturi tube. This type of tunnel makes it possible to vary the pressure and thereby the density within wide limits and consequently, to examine the viscosity effect. This, however, did not impair the results because pressure and temperature were determined at different periods.
Date: August 1931
Creator: Peters, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experiments With a Wing From Which the Boundary Layer Is Removed by Suction

Description: This report presents the results of the first investigation of the physical principle of preventing the streamline separation by removing the boundary layer. It was aeronautical, in that it dealt with airfoils, but the results are of a very general application.
Date: August 1931
Creator: Schrenk, Oskar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The pressure distribution over a modified elliptical wing tip on a biplane in flight

Description: This note presents the results of flight pressure-distribution tests on the right upper wing panel of a Douglas M-3 airplane equipped with a modified elliptical tip having a slight amount of washout. The results are given in tables and curves in such form that the load distribution for any normal force coefficient within the usual range encountered in flight may be determined.
Date: August 1931
Creator: Lundquist, Eugene E. & Rhode, Richard V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quartz and Silica: Part 1. - General Summary

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing quartz and silica minerals. As stated in the foreword, "the purpose of the present paper is to assemble brief summaries of the many widely differing industries engaged in the production and preparation of these minerals in their principal commercial forms" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: August 1931
Creator: Santmyers, Reigart Meredith
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Use of Slots for Increasing the Lift of Airplane Wings

Description: This report discusses in detail the results obtained with devices for preventing the separation of the boundary layer. In order to give an idea of the order of magnitude of the positive and negative pressures involved, we made a diagram of them, as measured at 15 degrees angle of attack on the Gottigen profile 387. The pressure scale is graduated in terms of the dynamic pressure q, which enables the evaluation of the positive and negative pressures at all velocities.
Date: August 1931
Creator: Haus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Drop and Flight Tests on NY-2 Landing Gears Including Measurements of Vertical Velocities at Landing

Description: This investigation was conducted to obtain quantitative information on the effectiveness of three landing gears for the NY-2 (consolidated training) airplane. The investigation consisted of static, drop, and flight tests on landing gears of the oleo-rubber-disk and the mercury rubber-chord types, and flight tests only on a landing gear of the conventional split-axle rubber-cord type. The results show that the oleo gear is the most effective of the three landing gears in minimizing impact forces… more
Date: August 7, 1931
Creator: Peck, W. C. & Beard, A. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Penetration and Duration of Fuel Sprays From a Pump Injection System

Description: "High-speed motion pictures were taken of individual fuel sprays from a pump injection system. The changes in the spray-tip penetration with changes in the pump speed, injection-valve opening and closing pressures, discharge-orifice area, injection-tube length and diameter, and pump throttle setting were measured. The pump was used with and without a check valve" (p. 241).
Date: August 24, 1931
Creator: Rothrock, A. M. & Marsh, E. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The NACA Apparatus for Studying the Formation and Combustion of Fuel Sprays and the Results From Preliminary Tests

Description: "This report describes the apparatus as designed and constructed at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, for studying the formation and combustion of fuel sprays under conditions closely simulating those occurring in a high-speed compression-ignition engine. The apparatus consists of a single-cylinder modified test engine, a fuel-injection system so designed that a single charge of fuel can be injected into the combustion chamber of the engine, an electric driving motor, and a high-spe… more
Date: August 26, 1931
Creator: Rothrock, A. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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