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Summary of Methods of Measuring Angle of Attack on Aircraft (open access)

Summary of Methods of Measuring Angle of Attack on Aircraft

Note presenting wind-tunnel calibrations of three types of angle-of-attack sensing devices - the pivoted vane, the differential pressure tube, and the null-seeking pressure tube. Flight data on the position errors for three sensor locations - ahead of the fuselage nose, ahead of the wing tip, and on the forebody of the fuselage - are also presented. Various methods for calibrating angle-of-attack installations in flight are briefly described.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Gracey, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Normal component of induced velocity for entire field of a uniformly loaded lifting rotor with highly swept wake as determined by electromagnetic analog (open access)

Normal component of induced velocity for entire field of a uniformly loaded lifting rotor with highly swept wake as determined by electromagnetic analog

Report presenting values of the nondimensional normal component of induced velocity throughout the flow field of a uniformly loaded lifting rotor operating in the upper half of the helicopter speed range in the form of graphs and tables. The results obtained should be useful for estimating the induced velocity distribution about lifting rotors in general and for synthesizing the distributions over the rotor disk for the case of any specified non-uniform loading.
Date: June 1958
Creator: Castles, Walter, Jr.; Durham, Howard L., Jr. & Kevorkian, Jirair
System: The UNT Digital Library