Report presenting a flight investigation of a ground-launched supersonic twin ram-jet test vehicle using short flame-length burners. Results were obtained for a range of Mach numbers, altitudes, and fuel-air-ratios. Engine performance, gross thrust, fuel rate, total impulse, values of combustion efficiency and impulse, and overall combustion efficiency are also included.

"The significance of additive drag is discussed and equations for determining its approximate value are derived for annular and open-nose inlets. Charts are presented giving values of additive drag coefficient over a range of free-stream Mach numbers for open and for annular-nose inlets with conical flow at the inlet. The effects on additive drag of variable inlet-total-pressure recovery and static pressures on the centerbody are investigated and an analytical method of predicting the variation of pressure on the centerbody with mass-flow ratio is given" (p. 1).

"This report summarizes the effects of fuel volatility and engine design variables on the problem of starting gas-turbine engines at sea-level and altitude conditions. The starting operation for engines with tubular combustors is considered as three steps; namely, (1) ignition of a fuel-air mixture in the combustor, (2) propagation of flame through cross-fire tubes to all combustors, and (3) acceleration of the engine from windmilling or starting speed to the operating speed range. Pertinent data from laboratory researches, single-combustor studies, and full-scale engine investigations are presented on each phase of the starting problem" (p. 1).

Report documenting the suitability of Arizona for plant locations to produce synthetic liquid fuels, based on raw materials, water sources, and local interest. In this report, they analyze the state primarily for coal deposits suitable for synthetic liquid fuels.

This study was started in May 1949 to find methods of reducing the number of element failures in the salt bath bronze furnaces. Determining the cause of the failure and methods of eliminating them is followed to completion.