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Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Research

 Subject
Subject Source: World Cat Fast Authority File
Scope Note: For basic aerodynamics work, use "Aerodynamics".

Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:

"Supplementary Report on Interphone Type SCR-57, Remodeled" (Air Service Information Circular (Aviation) Vol. III, No. 204), 1920-11-11, 1921-04-30

 Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.011
Identifier: 20141205
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Document Type: Technical Research Report Authority: Government Military (authoritative reference) Document Number: Air Service Information Circular (Aviation) Vol. III, No. 204 (dated April 30, 1921), based on McCook Field Report Serial No. 1450 (dated November 11, 1920).

Scope: Test report prepared by Equipment Section, Engineering Division, Air Service, McCook Field.

Contents: See title.

Dates: 1920-11-11; Publication: 1921-04-30

"Survey of Two-Dimensional Data on Pitching-Moment Changes Near Maximum Lift Caused by Deflection of High-Lift Devices" (NACA Research Memorandum L9J03), 1949-12-02

 Item — Box MC-019-002, Folder: 001.A.037
Identifier: 20060164
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Document Type: Technical Research Report. Purpose: Authoritative reference Authority: Government Civil Document Number: NACA Research Memorandum L9J03, dated December 2, 1949. Declassified on December 14, 1953.

Scope: Preliminary classified NACA research report by Jerold M. Bidwell and Jones F. Cahill of Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Air Force Base, Va.

Contents: See title.

Dates: Publication: 1949-12-02

"Tank Tests To Determine The Effect On Planing-Tail Hulls of Varying Length, Width, and Plan-Form taper of Afterbody" (NACA Report No. 844), 1946

 Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.026
Identifier: 20060138.1
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Document Type: Technical Research Report. Authority: Government Civil (authoritative reference). Document Number: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Report No. 844, published in 1946.

Scope: NACA research report by John R. Dawson, Robert C. Walter and Elizabeth S. Hay.

Contents: See title. Includes "Erratum" sheet about transposing figures 5 and 9 on pages 3 and 5.

Dates: Publication: 1946

"Temperature of Factory for Construction of Flying Boat Hulls" (Bureau of Aeronautics Technical Note No. 16) [Photocopy], 1923

 Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.021
Identifier: 20152016
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Document Type: Technical Research Report Authority: Government Military (authoritative reference) Document Number: Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics Technical Note No. 16 (dated 1923), based on "Reprint of Navy Department, Bureau of Construction and Repair A. T. N. [Aeronautical Technical Note] No. 39)".

Scope: Report # 40566-23 repared "From A British Source".

Contents: See Title

Dates: Publication: 1923

"Tests of Related Forward-Camber Airfoils In The Variable-Density Wind Tunnel" [1939 reprint of report originally published November 1937] (NACA Report No. 610), 1937-11, 1939

 Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.024
Identifier: 20060318
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Document Type: Technical Research Report Authority: Government Civil (authoritative reference) Document Number: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Report No. 610 [this is a 1939 reprint of the report originally published in November, 1937.

Scope: NACA research report by Eastman N. Jacobs, Robert M. Pinkerton and Harry Greenberg.

Contents: See title.

Dates: Publication: 1937-11; Issued: 1939

"Tests of Several Model Nacelle-Propeller Arrangements in Front of A Wing" [Originally published as an Advance Confidential Report in Sept 1939] (NACA Wartime Report L-510), 1939-09, Circa late 1945 to 1946

 Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.029
Identifier: 20060156
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Document Type: Technical Research Report. Authority: Government Civil (authoritative reference). Document Number: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Wartime Report L-510, published soon after the end of WW II. Originally published as an Advance Confidential Report in September 1939.

Scope: NACA research report by James G. McHugh.

Contents: See title.

Dates: Publication: 1939-09; Issued: Circa late 1945 to 1946

"The Characteristics Of 78 Related Airfoil Sections From Tests in the Variable-Density Wind Tunnel" [1946 reprint of report originally published November 1933] (NACA Report No. 460), 1933-11, 1946

 Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.024
Identifier: 20060338
Scope and Contents

Document Type: Technical Research Report Authority: Government Civil (authoritative reference) Document Number: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Report No. 460 [this is a 1946 reprint of the report originally published in November, 1933.

Scope: NACA research report by Eastman N. Jacobs, Kenneth E. Ward and Robert M. Pinkerton..

Contents: See title.

Dates: Publication: 1933-11; Issued: 1946

"The Economical use of Duralumin as a Substitute for Steel in Compression" (Air Service Information Circular (Aviation) Vol. IV, No. 337), 1921-08-25, 1922-04-01

 Item — Box MC-019-001, Folder: 001.A.012
Identifier: 20141341
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Document Type: Technical Research Report Authority: Government Military (authoritative reference) Document Number: Air Service Information Circular (Aviation) Vol. IV, No. 337 (dated April 1, 1922), based on McCook Field Report Serial No. 1809 (dated August 25, 1921).

Scope: Report prepared by Structures & Analysis Branch, Airplane Section, Engineering Division, Air Service, McCook Field.

Contents: See title.

Dates: 1921-08-25; Publication: 1922-04-01

"The Effectiveness at High Subsonic Mach Numbers of a 20-Percent-Chord Plain Trailing-Edge Flap on the NACA 65-210 Airfoil Section" (NACA Technical Note 3127), 1954-03

 Item — Box MC-019-002, Folder: 001.A.036
Identifier: 20060118
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Document Type: Technical Research Report. Purpose: Authoritative reference Authority: Government Civil Document Number: NACA Technical Note 3127, dated March 1954.

Scope: Preliminary NACA research report by Louis S. Stivers, Jr. of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Calif.

Contents: See title.

Dates: Publication: 1954-03

"The Low Drag Sailplane, Tiny Mite, Modification 1954" [Manuscript from the Aerophysics Department, Mississippi State College], 1954-08-12

 File — Box MC-019-002, Folder: 001.A.044
Identifier: 20060320
Scope and Contents

Document Type: Academic Research Paper Purpose: Scholarly reference Authority: Author Expertise

Scope & Contents: Looks at ways to modify sailplanes to reduce drag.

Dates: 1954-08-12