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Theoretical study of the lateral frequency response to gusts of a fighter airplane, both with controls fixed and with several types of autopilots (open access)

Theoretical study of the lateral frequency response to gusts of a fighter airplane, both with controls fixed and with several types of autopilots

Report presenting a theoretical approach to determine the lateral frequency response of a fighter airplane to side gusts and rolling gusts at a Mach number of 0.7 and an altitude of 30,000 feet. Frequency response and power spectral density were determined with the controls fixed and in combination with three different basic types of attitude autopilots.
Date: March 1956
Creator: Adams, James J. & Mathews, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compressibility Factor, Density, Specific Heat, Enthalpy, Entropy, Free-Energy Function, Viscosity, and Thermal Conductivity of Steam (open access)

Compressibility Factor, Density, Specific Heat, Enthalpy, Entropy, Free-Energy Function, Viscosity, and Thermal Conductivity of Steam

Note presenting tables of thermal properties of stream that have been prepared in an NBS-NACA series. They include, for real gas, the compressibility factor, the density, the specific heat at constant pressure, the enthalpy, the entropy, the free-energy function, the viscosity, and the thermal conductivity.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Fano, Lilla; Hubbell, John H. & Beckett, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stability Derivatives of Cones at Supersonic Speeds (open access)

Stability Derivatives of Cones at Supersonic Speeds

"The aerodynamic stability derivatives due to pitching velocity and vertical acceleration are derived for circular cones traveling at supersonic speeds. Both first-order and a combination of first and second order potential solutions are obtained, and in calculations for the forces, no approximations are made to the tangency condition or the isentropic pressure relation. In addition, expressions for the forces, moments, and stability derivatives of arbitrary bodies of revolution are derived from Newtonian impact theory" (p. 1).
Date: September 1956
Creator: Tobak, Murray & Wehrend, William R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of thickness, camber, and thickness distribution on airfoil characteristics at Mach numbers up to 1.0 (open access)

Effect of thickness, camber, and thickness distribution on airfoil characteristics at Mach numbers up to 1.0

Report presenting tests of a group of related NACA airfoil sections varying in maximum thickness, design lift coefficient, and thickness distribution in a two-dimensional open-throat wind tunnel at a range of Mach numbers. Normal-force, drag, and pitching-moment coefficients are presented with representative schileren photographs and pressure-distribution diagrams.
Date: March 1956
Creator: Daley, Bernard N. & Dick, Richard S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Properties of aircraft fuels (open access)

Properties of aircraft fuels

Report presenting a combination of two previously published reports with an extension of the data to cover properties of fuels up to temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Barnett, Henry C. & Hibbard, Robert R.
System: The UNT Digital Library