The following document analyzes radioactive spot contamination in and around the T and B Plant Areas.

This technical progress letter contains reports from six Technical Department divisions at the Hanford Engineer Works for January 19 through January 25, 1947. The six reporting divisions are: 100 Areas, 300 Area, 200 Areas, Chemical Development, Laboratories, and Statistical Studies. (JL)

This report provides the monthly radiation monitoring sampling surveys for 1947.

Performance curves and test results on a half scale model of the radio frequency system designed to accelerate protons in the Berkeley 184-inch cyclotron are presented. This report is a sequel to K. R. Mackenzie's report on the three quarter wave radio frequency system for frequency modulated cyclotrons.

This is a progress report on the work of ore tressing and pyrometallurgical studies as well as a study of chemical work on phosphates. This report covers the month of November, 1947.

This report for September, 1947 describes progress regarding ore dressing and pyrometallurgical studies, chemical work, analytical work, identification work, and future work

Report presenting an investigation to obtain fundamental information required for the design of a satisfactory tail-pipe burner for augmenting turbojet engine thrust. Investigations were also conducted to determine the combustion and pressure-drop characteristics of the most satisfactory burner, to develop a method of controlling the burner-outlet temperature distribution, and to improve the burner ignition characteristics.

Report presenting the combustion efficiencies of 10 experimental jet-propulsion fuels that are approximately 200 degrees Fahrenheit cuts of five selected crudes available in large quantities in a turbojet engine combustor at altitude conditions.

Report presenting wind-tunnel testing of five large-scale tapered wings with a variety of angles of sweep to determine the effects of scale and sweep on the damping-in-roll parameter. Rolling moment and pressure distribution were measured for each plain wing while in steady roll for a range of angles of attack. Results regarding the effects of sweep at zero lift, effects of lift, and aurorotational characteristics are provided.

"A small-deflection theory is developed for the elastic behavior of orthotropic flat plates in which deflections due to shear are taken into account. In this theory, which covers all types of flat sandwich construction, a plate is characterized by seven physical constants (five stiffnesses and two Poisson ratios) of which six are independent. Both the energy expression and the differential equations are developed. Boundary conditions corresponding to simply supported, clamped, and elastically restrained edges are considered" (p. 1).

Included herein is a historical record of the AAF sponsored NEPA Project during the period of October 1945, to the present time, and covers in narrative form the nature of planning leading to the implementation of the project, the establishment of the operating group and its relationship to the Manhattan District (later to become the Atomic Energy Commission) and the approach to applicable technological problems bearing on both nuclear science and aeronautical propulsion engineering aspects.

This report for October, 1947 describes progress regarding ore dressing and pyrometallurgical studies, chemical work on phosphates, chemical work on shales, and analytical work.

This report for June, 1947 describes progress regarding ore dressing and pyrometallurgical studies, chemical work, analytical work, and beta counting.

This report covers progress in chemical and spectrographic analysis, chemical work, beta-counting methods of analysis, and ore-dressing and pyrometallurgical studies.

Attempts were made to alleviate the buffeting of external fuel tanks mounted under the wings of a twin-engine Navy fighter plane. The Mach number at which the buffeting began was increased from 0.529 to 0.640 by streamlining the sway braces and increasing the lateral rigidity of the sway brace system. Further increases of the Mach number, at which buffeting began to 0.725, was obtained by moving the external fuel tank to a position under the fuselage.

"Six, 3-inch-chord symmetrical airfoil sections having systematic variations in thickness and thickness location were tested at Mach numbers near flight values for propeller-shank sections. The tests, the results of which are presented in the form of schlieren photographs of the flow past each model and pressure-distribution charts for two of the model, were performed to illustrate the effects of compressibility on the flow past thick symmetrical airfoil sections. Representative flow photographs indicated that at Mach numbers approximately 0.05 above the critical Mach number a speed region was reached in which the flow oscillated rapidly and the separation point and the location of the shock wave were unstable" (p. 1).

"An investigation was made in the Langley two-dimensional low-turbulence tunnel on a wing section for the XB-36 airplane equipped with a double slotted flap to determine the effect on lift and drag of various slot-entry skirt extension. A skirt extension of 0.787 deg. was found to provide the best combination of high maximum lift with flap deflected and law drag with flap retracted. The data showed that the maximum lift at intermediate (20 deg. to 45 deg.) flap deflections was lowered considerably by the slot-entry extension; but at high flap deflections the effect was small" (p. 1).