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Method for Estimating Lift Interference of Wing-Body Combinations at Supersonic Speeds (open access)

Method for Estimating Lift Interference of Wing-Body Combinations at Supersonic Speeds

Memorandum presenting the use of the modified slender-body method to predict the lift and moment interference of triangular wing-body combinations adapted to combinations with other than triangular wings. The methods are applied to the prediction of the lit-curve slopes of nearly 100 triangular, rectangular, and trapezoidal wing-body configurations.
Date: December 31, 1951
Creator: Nielsen, Jack N. & Kaattari, George E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effects of various parameters including Mach number on propeller blade flutter with emphasis on stall flutter (open access)

The effects of various parameters including Mach number on propeller blade flutter with emphasis on stall flutter

Report presenting an investigation of the effects of many of the parameters significant to wing flutter on several untwisted rotating models to determine their significance with respect to stall flutter of propeller blades. The parameters included torsional stiffness, section thickness ratio, sweepback, length-chord ratio, section center-of-gravity location, blade taper, Mach number, and fluid density. Results regarding the considerations on method of presentation, experimental data and discussion, some possible applications, and a comparison of experiment with classical-flutter theory are provided.
Date: January 31, 1951
Creator: Baker, John E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method for estimating lift interference of wing-body combinations at supersonic speeds (open access)

Method for estimating lift interference of wing-body combinations at supersonic speeds

Report presenting the use of the modified slender-body method to predict the lift and moment interference of triangular wing-body combinations to evaluate combinations with non-triangular wings. The method is applied to the prediction of lift-curve slopes of nearly 100 triangular, rectangular, and trapezoidal wing-body configurations.
Date: December 31, 1951
Creator: Nielsen, Jack N. & Kaattari, George E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary evaluation of the air and fuel specific-impulse characteristics of several potential ram-jet fuels 4: hydrogen, a-methylnaphthalene, and carbon (open access)

Preliminary evaluation of the air and fuel specific-impulse characteristics of several potential ram-jet fuels 4: hydrogen, a-methylnaphthalene, and carbon

A preliminary analytical evaluation of the air and fuel specific-impulse characteristics of hydrogen, a-methylnapthalene, and graphite carbon has been made. Adiabatic constant-pressure combustion flame temperatures for each fuel at several equivalence ratios were calculated for an initial air temperature of 560 degrees R and a pressure of 2 atmospheres.
Date: August 31, 1951
Creator: Gammon, Benson E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation to Determine the Effectiveness of a Split-Aileron Type Emergency Spin-Recovery Device for the Northrop XF-89 Airplane (open access)

Investigation to Determine the Effectiveness of a Split-Aileron Type Emergency Spin-Recovery Device for the Northrop XF-89 Airplane

The present paper presents the results of a brief investigation made to determine the effectiveness of a proposed emergency spin-recovery device to be used during demonstration spins of the Northrop XF -89 airplane. The proposed device makes use of split-type ailerons deflected +/-60deg on the outboard wing (left wing in a right spin). Tests made on a model which represented the airplane to a scale of 7 indicated that, if an uncontrollable spin is obtained in the design gross--weight loading, the device is not sufficiently effective to insure recovery,.
Date: August 31, 1951
Creator: Neihouse, A. I. & Lee, H. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library