Appraisal of Hazards to Human Survival in Airplane Crash Fires (open access)

Appraisal of Hazards to Human Survival in Airplane Crash Fires

Note presenting a study of the factors that affect the survival of human beings in airplane accidents followed by fire by conducting full-scale crashes of transport- and cargo-type airplanes. Some of the factors studied include thermal injury, toxic gases, missiles, and structural destruction of occupied compartments are provided.
Date: September 1953
Creator: Pesman, Gerard J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The optical system of the NACA 400,000-frame-per-second motion-picture camera (open access)

The optical system of the NACA 400,000-frame-per-second motion-picture camera

Report presenting the optical principle of the NACA ultrahigh-speed camera. Simplified sketches are included illustrating the optical principle and main design features of the camera, but without minor design details. A detailed description of the camera is provided as well as some sample photographs taken with the camera.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Miller, Cearcy D.
System: The UNT Digital Library