Test of Oil Scraper Piston Ring and Piston Fitted With Oil Drain Holes (open access)

Test of Oil Scraper Piston Ring and Piston Fitted With Oil Drain Holes

Tests were conducted to determine whether or not a properly located and properly designed oil scraper piston ring, installed on a piston provided with oil drain holes of sufficient area, would prevent the excessive oiling of the Liberty engine, particularly with the engine running at idling speed with full oil pressure. Results showed that excessive oiling was in fact prevented. It is strongly recommended that scraper rings and pistons be adopted for aircraft engines.
Date: August 1922
Creator: McDewell, H. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The twisted wing with elliptic plan form (open access)

The twisted wing with elliptic plan form

A method for computing the aerodynamic induction of wings with elliptic plan form if arbitrarily twisted.
Date: August 1922
Creator: Munk, Max M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural Safety During Curved Flight (open access)

Structural Safety During Curved Flight

Note presenting an exploration of aircraft safety during curved flight, which leads to more stress on the wings than other types of flight.
Date: August 1922
Creator: Rohrbach, Adolf
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Multiplied Pressures for Automatic Altitude Adjustments (open access)

The Use of Multiplied Pressures for Automatic Altitude Adjustments

"The efficient performance of an airplane requires that certain adjustments be made as the density of the air through which the airplane passes changes. The safety of the over-dimensioned aircraft engine depends upon careful manipulation of spark advance and throttle opening and a proper control of a variable pitch propeller, if the maximum performance of the supercharged engine is to be obtained. It is evident that there is a real need for satisfactory devices to make such adjustments automatically. Discussed here is a method of automatic compensation which deserves consideration in the design of such devices" (p. 1).
Date: August 1922
Creator: Sparrow, Stanwood W.
System: The UNT Digital Library