The Bernard 120 Seaplane (French): A 1400 hp Single-Seat Monoplane Racer (open access)

The Bernard 120 Seaplane (French): A 1400 hp Single-Seat Monoplane Racer

Circular presenting a description of the Bernard 120, which is a seaplane. Descriptions of the structural elements, engine, and fuel distribution system are provided.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Léglise, Pierre
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dyle and Bacalan "DB 70" Commercial Airplane (French): An All-Metal High-Wing Monoplane (open access)

The Dyle and Bacalan "DB 70" Commercial Airplane (French): An All-Metal High-Wing Monoplane

Report presenting a description of the Dyle and Balaclan DB 70, which is a commercial airplane with a very thick wing. Details of the fuselages, wings, passenger and pilot spaces, ability to function as an ambulance airplane, and flying qualities are provided.
Date: March 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Latécoère 521 "Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris" Commercial Flying Boat (French): A Two-Deck Six-Engine Semicantilever Sesquiplane (open access)

The Latécoère 521 "Lieutenant De Vaisseau Paris" Commercial Flying Boat (French): A Two-Deck Six-Engine Semicantilever Sesquiplane

Circular presenting a description of the Latécoère 521, which was the largest aircraft built in France at the time. A more detailed description of the wings, hull, accommodation for passengers and officers, fuel system, controls, and flight characteristics is provided.
Date: March 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Boundary Layer as a Means of Controlling the Flow of Liquids and Gases (open access)

The Boundary Layer as a Means of Controlling the Flow of Liquids and Gases

According to one of the main propositions of the boundary layer theory the scarcely noticeable boundary layer may, under certain conditions, have a decisive influence on the form of the external flow by causing it to separate from the wing surface. These phenomena are known to be caused by a kind of stagnation of the boundary layer at the point of separation. The present report deals with similar phenomena. It is important to note that usually the cause (external interference) directly affects only the layer close to the wall, while its indirect effect extends to a large portion of the external flow.
Date: March 1930
Creator: Schrenk, Oskar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Les Mureaux "130.a2" Observation Airplane (French): A High-Wing Two-Seat Monoplane (open access)

Les Mureaux "130.a2" Observation Airplane (French): A High-Wing Two-Seat Monoplane

Circular presenting Les Mureaux 130.A2, which is a high-wing two-seat observation monoplane. A description of the design, performances, components, performance qualities, photographs, and drawings are provided.
Date: March 1930
Creator: Frachet, André
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bleriot 110 Airplane (French): A Long-Distance High-Wing Monoplane (open access)

The Bleriot 110 Airplane (French): A Long-Distance High-Wing Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the Bleriot 110 which is a long-distance airplane mainly distinguished by its fineness and lightness. Details of the fuselage, shape, wing, and power plant are provided.
Date: March 1931
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The "Latécoère 28" Commercial Airplane (French): A Ten Passenger High-Wing Monoplane (open access)

The "Latécoère 28" Commercial Airplane (French): A Ten Passenger High-Wing Monoplane

Report presenting a description of the Latécoère 28, a commercial monoplane. A detailed description of the design, flight characteristics, and special features are provided.
Date: March 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boulton Paul P.71a Commercial Airplane (British): A Two-Engine Biplane (open access)

Boulton Paul P.71a Commercial Airplane (British): A Two-Engine Biplane

Circular presenting a description of the Boulton Paul P.71A, which is a new type of two-engine biplane. Details of the design, fuel tanks, materials, fuselage, passenger seating, tail, and flying qualities are provided.
Date: March 1935
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wibault 280 T.10 Commercial Airplane (French): An All-Metal, Cantilever, Low-Wing Monoplane (open access)

The Wibault 280 T.10 Commercial Airplane (French): An All-Metal, Cantilever, Low-Wing Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the Wibault 280 T.10, which is an all-metal cantilever low-wing monoplane. The flight characteristics, design, blueprints, and photographs are provided.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Frachet, André
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polish P Type Single-Seat Fighters: All-Metal Gull-Type Wing Monoplanes (open access)

Polish P Type Single-Seat Fighters: All-Metal Gull-Type Wing Monoplanes

Circular describing the Polish P.I and P.VIII airplanes, which are both all-metal gull-type wing monoplanes that differ in the type of engine used, their wing area, and their landing gears. Details of the components, design, differences, characteristics, load distribution, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: March 1931
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Avro "Anson" General-Purpose Airplane (British): A Two-Engine Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane (open access)

The Avro "Anson" General-Purpose Airplane (British): A Two-Engine Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Circular describing the Avro Anson, which is a two-engine low-wing cantilever monoplane of the general-purpose type. Details regarding the wing, landing gear, controls, fuselage, pilot's equipment, power plant, armament, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: March 1936
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Loire 11 Colonial Military Airplane (French): A High-Wing Semicantilever All-Metal Monoplane (open access)

The Loire 11 Colonial Military Airplane (French): A High-Wing Semicantilever All-Metal Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the Loire 11 military airplane, which is a landplane. Information regarding the materials, wing, fuselage, power plant, flight characteristics, and some photographs are provided.
Date: March 1932
Creator: Loyer, P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The C.A.M.S. 80 Amphibian (French): An Observation Monoplane (open access)

The C.A.M.S. 80 Amphibian (French): An Observation Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the C.A.M.S. 80, which is a shipboard or observation patrol, light-bombing, long-range amphibian. Details of the hull, landing gear, wing, tail surfaces, power plant, front cockpit, pilot's compartment, photographer's compartment, radio cabinet, rear gunner's cockpit, stern compartment, and flying qualities are provided.
Date: March 1932
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Variation in Pressure in the Cabin of an Airplane in Flight (open access)

The Variation in Pressure in the Cabin of an Airplane in Flight

From Summary: "The pressure in the cabin of a Fairchild cabin monoplane was surveyed in flight, and was found to decrease with increased air speed over the fuselage and to vary with the number and location of openings in the cabin. The maximum depression of 2.2 inches of water (equivalent pressure altitude at sea level of 152 feet) occurred at the high speed of the airplane in level flight with the cabin closed."
Date: March 1931
Creator: Gough, Melvin N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Static Longitudinal Stability Of "Ente" Airplanes (open access)

Static Longitudinal Stability Of "Ente" Airplanes

The stability conditions of Ente (duck) airplanes are investigated in this report. In developing the formulas, which afford an approximate solution, the unimportant effect of the height of the C.G. and the moment of the residual resistance are neglected. The effect of downwash from the forward horizontal empennage on the wing are also disregarded.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Kiel, Heinrich Georg
System: The UNT Digital Library
Problems Concerning the Stability and Maneuverability of Airplanes (open access)

Problems Concerning the Stability and Maneuverability of Airplanes

"The stability of an airplane can be easily determined by wind-tunnel tests, especially by simple tests with models mounted wind-vane fashion. However, each stability curve plotted by this method is valid only for a certain setting of the corresponding control surface, i.e., it characterizes the stability of the airplane with the control stick in a given position. The problems thus defined are studied from the point of view of longitudinal and transverse stability. Directional stability is not included in this study" (p. 1).
Date: March 1932
Creator: Biche, Jean
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accurate Calculation of Multispar Cantilever and Semicantilever Wings With Parallel Webs Under Direct and Indirect Loading (open access)

Accurate Calculation of Multispar Cantilever and Semicantilever Wings With Parallel Webs Under Direct and Indirect Loading

In the present report the computation is actually carried through for the case of parallel spars of equal resistance in bending without direct loading, including plotting of the influence lines; for other cases the method of calculation is explained. The development of large size airplanes can be speeded up by accurate methods of calculation such as this.
Date: March 1932
Creator: Sänger, Eugen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elmira Soaring Contest, 1930 (open access)

Elmira Soaring Contest, 1930

This report details the Elmira, New York soaring contest of 1930 and provides up-current maps, experiences in piloting, distance flights, and a few details on glider design.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Hirth, Wolfram K. E.; Schempp, Martin H. & Herrick, Jack
System: The UNT Digital Library
German Aircraft Accident Statistics, 1930 (open access)

German Aircraft Accident Statistics, 1930

The investigation of all serious accidents, involving technical defects in the airplane or engine, is undertaken by the D.V.L. in conjunction with the imperial traffic minister and other interested parties. All accidents not clearly explained in the reports are subsequently cleared up.
Date: March 1932
Creator: Weitzmann, Ludwig
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optico-Photographic Measurements of Airplane Deformations (open access)

Optico-Photographic Measurements of Airplane Deformations

"The deformation of aircraft wings is measured by photographically recording a series of bright shots on a moving paper band sensitive to light. Alternating deformations, especially vibrations, can thus be measured in operation, unaffected by inertia. A handy recording camera, the optograph, was developed by the static division of the D.V.L. (German Experimental Institute for Aeronautics) for the employment of this method of measurement on airplanes in flight" (p. 1).
Date: March 1931
Creator: Küssner, Hans Georg
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Electrodynamometric Balance of the Small Wind Tunnel of the French Service of Aeronautical Research (open access)

The Electrodynamometric Balance of the Small Wind Tunnel of the French Service of Aeronautical Research

This investigation shows the attempt to improve the electrodynamomoter designed by Mr. Villey. The force to be measured acts on a flexible steel plate which is placed in front of a fixed plate. The deformation varies the original thickness of the layer of air between the two plates, thus causing a more rapid variation in the coefficient of electrostatic attraction of the two plates than in the capacity of the condenser formed by the dynamometer.
Date: March 1930
Creator: Rebuffet, P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculations of the Effect of Wing Twist on the Air Forces Acting on a Monoplane Wing (open access)

Calculations of the Effect of Wing Twist on the Air Forces Acting on a Monoplane Wing

"A method is presented for calculating the aerodynamic forces on a moncylane wing, taking into account the elastic twisting of the wing due to these forces. The lift distribution along the span is calculated by the formulas of Amstutz as a function of the geometrical characteristics of the wing and of the twist at stations 60 and 90 percent of the semispan. The twist for a given lift distribution is calculated by means of influence lines" (p. 1).
Date: March 1935
Creator: Dätwyler, G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The importance of auto-ignition lag in knocking (open access)

The importance of auto-ignition lag in knocking

Report presenting an examination of the phenomenon of knocking, which is often accompanied by an apparently simultaneous reaction of the last part of the charge to burn. Several hypotheses regarding the burning of fuel and an exploration of current literature regarding the phenomena are provided.
Date: March 1933
Creator: Taylor, E. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of NACA Cowlings for Radial Air-Cooled Engines (open access)

Design of NACA Cowlings for Radial Air-Cooled Engines

"The information on the propeller-cowling-nacelle combinations, presented in Technical Reports nos. 592, 593, and 596 and in Technical Note 620, is applied to the practical design of NACA cowlings. The main emphasis is placed on the method of obtaining the dimensions of the cowling; consequently, the physical functioning of each part of the cowling is treated very briefly. A practical method of designing cowlings and some examples are presented" (p. 383).
Date: March 5, 1938
Creator: Stickle, George W.
System: The UNT Digital Library