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Influence of Design on Cost of Operating Airplanes (open access)

Influence of Design on Cost of Operating Airplanes

The author discusses cost of operating commercial airplanes and endeavors to clear up prevalent misunderstandings. Curves of operating cost for varying duration, speed, reserve horsepower, etc. are developed.
Date: December 1922
Creator: Black, Archibald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Method of Suspending Models in Airstream on Resulting Measurements (open access)

Effect of Method of Suspending Models in Airstream on Resulting Measurements

Two different suspension methods for testing models in a wind tunnel are profiled with the Eiffel laboratory using rods and the Gottingen lab using wires. The method using wires is shown to be a much superior method.
Date: November 1922
Creator: Wieselsberger, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Airplanes and Seaplanes (open access)

Commercial Airplanes and Seaplanes

This report considers as the dominating characteristic, either the load carried, the speed, the radius of action, the fuel consumption, the activity of transport, or, lastly, the qualities of comfort and safety. The first four factors determine the theoretical efficiency, while the others determine its practical efficiency.
Date: April 1922
Creator: Royer, Etienne
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing Airplanes in Flight: Determining Position of Resultant of Action of Air and Longitudinal Stability of an Airplane at Different Angles of Attack (open access)

Testing Airplanes in Flight: Determining Position of Resultant of Action of Air and Longitudinal Stability of an Airplane at Different Angles of Attack

"Measurements made during flight with the triple recording device which gives the horizontal and vertical speeds of an airplane and the angle it makes with the horizon, render it possible to calculate its lift, its drag, and R the resultant of the action of the air both in magnitude and direction, but with these data alone, it is impossible to determine the position of this resultant in the plane of symmetry of the airplane. We will also see how we may determine the position of R during flight and then calculate the variations in the stability of an airplane" (p. 1).
Date: April 1922
Creator: Senouque, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irresponsibility Clause in Air Traffic Contracts (open access)

Irresponsibility Clause in Air Traffic Contracts

This report examines the question of the responsibility of the carrier in air traffic. The French were concerned about the competitive advantage the English companies enjoyed because of differences in their respective laws.
Date: April 1922
Creator: Porquet
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The World's Air Transportation Services: Data as to Passengers, Mail, and Goods Carried by American and European Transportation Services (open access)

The World's Air Transportation Services: Data as to Passengers, Mail, and Goods Carried by American and European Transportation Services

This report presents detailed descriptions, statistics, and graphs on European and American air transport. The European countries listed are Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, and Italy.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Office of Aeronautical Intelligence
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maritime Aviation (open access)

Maritime Aviation

This report presents some studies of maritime aviation which cover the following principal points: employment of landplanes on maritime aerial warfare; their adaption to peculiar requirements of the Navy; and the establishment of a method of aerial pursuit and bombardment, likewise adapted to military aviation over land.
Date: July 1922
Creator: Ravennes, Jean
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
This Summer's Gliding Meets (open access)

This Summer's Gliding Meets

This article discusses the upcoming gliding meets in France and Germany in the summer of 1922. Restrictions of design, prize money, and new innovations are all discussed.
Date: July 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Problems of Commercial Flying (open access)

Technical Problems of Commercial Flying

The technical requirements for commercial aircraft are listed, which include: safety, economy and comfort. The author lists various methods to increase these requirements in commercial aircraft.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Choice of Air Routes (open access)

The Choice of Air Routes

The author lists rules for the development and planning of air routes. He uses as examples India and Texas, as well as discussing the need for more landing fields.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Night Flying (open access)

Night Flying

Dr. Warner examines the utility and economy of flying at night when flying passengers. Some of the points discussed include lighted landing fields, the possibility of using airships, and the cost of landing fields.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical Aids to Flight (open access)

Mechanical Aids to Flight

This report examines the great utility and safety of using instruments when flying. Instruments can be especially useful in conditions when the pilot has trouble spatially orienting himself.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subsidies for Air Transport (open access)

Subsidies for Air Transport

This article discusses the need for government subsidies to encourage the development of passenger and freight transport by air.
Date: 1922-05?
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lecture on the Rhon soaring flight competition, 1921 (open access)

Lecture on the Rhon soaring flight competition, 1921

This article presents a recounting of the Rhon soaring competition with emphasis on new designs, results, and prizes awarded. A round-robin discussion is also included at the end of the report.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Hoff, Wilhelm
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fakir Fuel Pump (open access)

Fakir Fuel Pump

"In designing the Fakir fuel pump, the fundamental idea was to obtain a simple and reliable method of conveying the fuel from a low tank to the carburetor, with the avoidance of the faults of all former methods and the simultaneous warming of the fuel by means of the heat of compression generated. The principle of the Fakir fuel pump rests on the well-known principle of the diaphragm pump, which must be suitably adapted to the present purpose" (p. 1).
Date: June 1922
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engine Pistons of Light Metal (open access)

Engine Pistons of Light Metal

This report presents the results of testing 32 sets of light metal pistons from 16 different aluminum and magnesium alloys, 2 sets of cast iron pistons, and one piston of pure electrolytic copper. The many-fold mutual relations between material properties, shape, thermic and dynamic processes in the engine were clarified by comprehensive technical, thermic, chemical, physical and metallographic investigations of pistons and piston materials.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Becker, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Structure in Middle Part of Leading Edge of a Thick Wing: Communication From Rijks-Studiedienst Voor De Luchtvaart of Amsterdam (open access)

Effect of Structure in Middle Part of Leading Edge of a Thick Wing: Communication From Rijks-Studiedienst Voor De Luchtvaart of Amsterdam

The experiments herein described were made for the purpose of finding whether removing a larger portion of the wing to improve the pilot's view would be possible, without too great detriment to the aerodynamic properties of the airplane. The experiments were conducted on a wing similar to the Fokker F III.
Date: June 1922
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Problem of the Slotted Wing: A Communication From the Aerodynamic Institute of the Aachen Technical High School (open access)

Problem of the Slotted Wing: A Communication From the Aerodynamic Institute of the Aachen Technical High School

"It is to be expected that the advantageous properties, hitherto discovered in many slotted wing sections, depend very largely on the contour of the slot and the structural details of the wing. It is therefore of interest, aside from measurements on wings of constant cross-section along the span, to measure also wing models in which the structural details have already been given practical consideration" (p. 1).
Date: June 1922
Creator: Klemperer, W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The R-38 Catastrophe and the Mechanics of Rigid Airship Construction (open access)

The R-38 Catastrophe and the Mechanics of Rigid Airship Construction

An airship frame may be regarded as a rigid girder subjected to a number of forces which, according to their nature, may be classified as follows: weight or loads (force of gravity); lifting forces (aero-static); accelerations (dynamic). These forces must be in equilibrium in the three most important cases during flight: 1) when the airship is floating (aerostatic problem); 2) when flying without acceleration (aerodynamic problem). 3) When under the influence of any accelerating force (dynamic problem). This report will briefly discuss each of these cases in regard to the R-38 airship accident.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Herrera, Emilio
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comfort in Flight (open access)

Comfort in Flight

Some advances in passenger comfort are discussed, namely, ventilated cabins, heating, seating arrangements, and doors.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Prospects of the Helicopter (open access)

The Prospects of the Helicopter

The advantages of helicopters are listed along with a discussion of safety devices, the problems of control, and the need for horizontal flight.
Date: June 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bagnulo Heavy Fuel Internal Combustion Engine and Its Employment in Aviation (open access)

Bagnulo Heavy Fuel Internal Combustion Engine and Its Employment in Aviation

We see with great satisfaction that Bagnulo's studies and experiments on his high-speed, heavy-fuel engines, promise to solve not only the general problem of economical power and hence of thermal efficiency, but also all other special problems, of weight and space, and, what is still more important, range of error.
Date: March 1922
Creator: Fiore, Amedeo
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Publicity by Airplane (open access)

Publicity by Airplane

The future of aerial photography is examined with special reference to corporate uses.
Date: March 1922
Creator: Carlier, André
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeronautic Insurance (open access)

Aeronautic Insurance

The problem of insuring the emerging commercial aeronautic industry is detailed. The author also motes that a complete solution cannot be obtained until the necessary statistics are compiled.
Date: March 1922
Creator: Neal, Erik
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library