Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Research
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
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.
"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
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.
"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
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.
"Temperature of Factory for Construction of Flying Boat Hulls" (Bureau of Aeronautics Technical Note No. 16) [Photocopy], 1923
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
"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
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.
"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
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.
"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
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.
"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
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.
"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
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.
"The Low Drag Sailplane, Tiny Mite, Modification 1954" [Manuscript from the Aerophysics Department, Mississippi State College], 1954-08-12
Document Type: Academic Research Paper
Purpose: Scholarly reference
Authority: Author Expertise
Scope & Contents: Looks at ways to modify sailplanes to reduce drag.