Derivation of charts for determining the horizontal tail load variation with any elevator motion (open access)

Derivation of charts for determining the horizontal tail load variation with any elevator motion

From Summary: "The equations relating the wing and tail loads are derived for a unit elevator displacement. These equations are then converted into a nondimensional form and charts are given by which the wing- and tail-load-increment variation may be determined under dynamic conditions for any type of elevator motion and for various degrees of airplane stability. In order to illustrate the use of the charts, several examples are included in which the wing and tail loads are evaluated for a number of types of elevator motion. Methods are given for determining the necessary derivatives from results of wind-tunnel tests when such tests are available."
Date: November 23, 1942
Creator: Pearson, Henry A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of knock in NACA high-speed photographs of combustion in a spark-ignition engine (open access)

Identification of knock in NACA high-speed photographs of combustion in a spark-ignition engine

Report presents the results of a study of combustion in a spark-ignition engine given in NACA Technical Reports 704 and 727. The present investigation was made with the NACA high-speed motion-picture camera, operating at 40,000 photographs a second, and with a cathode-ray oscillograph operating on a piezoelectric pick-up in the combustion chamber. Photographs are presented showing that the origin of knock is not necessarily in the end gas. The data obtained indicates that knock takes place only in a part of the cylinder charge which has been previously ignited either by autoignition or by the passage of the flame fronts but which has not burned to completion. Mottled regions in the high-speed Schlieren photographs are demonstrated to represent combustion regions.
Date: November 14, 1942
Creator: Miller, Cearcy D. & Olsen, H. Lowell
System: The UNT Digital Library