Report presenting an analysis of the effects of compressibility on the pressure coefficients of several bodies of revolution by comparing experimentally determined pressure coefficients with corresponding pressure coefficients calculated by the use of linearized equations of compressible flow. The results indicated that the theoretical methods predict the subsonic pressure-coefficient changes over the central portion of the body but do not predict the pressure-coefficient changes near the nose.

The theory of high energy nuclear stars depends on a theory of nuclear transparency and on a theory of nuclear evaporation. The transparency can be computed on the basis of a model proposed by R. Serber as soon as the interactions between the nucleons and the incident particle are known. The evaporation can be computed on the basis of the statistical model of the nucleus as soon as the nuclear entropy and binding energies of the evaporated particles are known. With approximate values for the above interactions, entropies, and binding energies, a probability distribution has been computed for the number of prongs per star. The results are in qualitative agreement with the observations on photographic emulsions described in Part 1.

Report presenting an investigation of the closed wind-tunnel phenomenon of choking and the wall-constriction effects in the subsonic Mach number range where supersonic Mach numbers appear using the hydraulic analogy. Application of the results to wind tunnel testing, the subsonic choking phenomena, and effects of the walls are described.

Report presenting testing of low-aspect-ratio triangular-plan-form lifting surfaces located on conical and cylindrical portions of a body have been determined at Mach number 1.2 and several subsonic speeds to determine if the aerodynamic characteristics of these surfaces at supersonic speeds could be improved by locating them in the subsonic conical-flow field. Results regarding lift and drag coefficients and lift-curve slopes are provided.

Report deals, first with the theory of the laminar friction flow, where the basic concepts of Prandtl's boundary layer theory are represented from mathematical and physical points of view, and a method is indicated by means of which even more complicated cases can be treated with simple mathematical means, at least approximately. An attempt is also made to secure a basis for the computation of the turbulent friction by means of formulas through which the empirical laws of the turbulent pipe resistance can be applied to other problems on friction drag.

This book was designed to use as a text on air navigation on private ground course of the Civilian Pilot Training Program, and is the fourth edition of the publication "Practical Air Navigation and the Use of Aeronautical Charts of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey" by Thoburn C. Lyon.