Effects of Surface Roughness and Extreme Cooling on Boundary-Layer Transition for 15 Degrees Cone-Cylinder in Free Flight at Mach Numbers to 7.6 (open access)

Effects of Surface Roughness and Extreme Cooling on Boundary-Layer Transition for 15 Degrees Cone-Cylinder in Free Flight at Mach Numbers to 7.6

Report presenting an investigation of three cone-cylinder bodies to obtain boundary-layer-transition data at very low ratios of wall to local stream temperature. Surface finishes at several levels of roughness height were tested. Results regarding the smooth body and rough bodies are provided.
Date: March 5, 1958
Creator: Rabb, Leonard & Krasnican, Milan J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Circumferential Inlet Flow Distortion on the Performance of a Five-Stage Axial-Flow Research Compressor with Transonic Rotors in All Stages (open access)

Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Circumferential Inlet Flow Distortion on the Performance of a Five-Stage Axial-Flow Research Compressor with Transonic Rotors in All Stages

Memorandum presenting an investigation of the performance of a five-stage transonic research compressor with distorted inlet flow. Both overall performance and individual blade-row performance results over a range of compressor speeds and equivalent weight flows were obtained with three circumferential inlet flow-distortion patterns covering annular extents of 60, 120, and 180 degrees. Results regarding compressor-inlet conditions and overall performance and individual blade-row performance are provided.
Date: March 5, 1958
Creator: Robbins, William H. & Glaser, Frederick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a Two-Dimensional Cascade Inlet at a Free-Stream Mach Number of 3.05 and at Angles of Attack of -3 Degrees, 0 Degrees, 3 Degrees, and 6 Degrees (open access)

Performance of a Two-Dimensional Cascade Inlet at a Free-Stream Mach Number of 3.05 and at Angles of Attack of -3 Degrees, 0 Degrees, 3 Degrees, and 6 Degrees

Memorandum presenting an investigation of a double-ramp cascade inlet at Mach number 3.05 in order to determine the penalties associated with decreasing the length of inlets by means of cascades. Total-pressure recovery and profile distortion of the cascade inlet were compared with a similar single-passage inlet that captured the same mass flow.
Date: March 5, 1958
Creator: Woollett, Richard R. & Ferguson, Harold M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of the Free-Spinning and Recovery Characteristics of a 1/24-Scale Model of the Grumman F11F-1 Airplane With Alternate Nose Configurations With and Without Wing Fuel Tanks, TED No. NACA AD 395 (open access)

An Investigation of the Free-Spinning and Recovery Characteristics of a 1/24-Scale Model of the Grumman F11F-1 Airplane With Alternate Nose Configurations With and Without Wing Fuel Tanks, TED No. NACA AD 395

"A supplementary investigation has been conducted in the Langley 20-foot free-spinning tunnel on a l/24-scale model of the Grumman F11F-1 airplane to determine the spin and recovery characteristics with alternate nose configurations, the production version and the elongated APS-67 version, with and without empty and full wing tanks. When spins were obtained with either alternate nose configuration, they were oscillatory and recovery characteristics were considered unsatisfactory on the basis of the fact that very slow recoveries were indicated to be possible. The simultaneous extension of canards near the nose of the model with rudder reversal was effective in rapidly terminating the spin" (p. 1).
Date: March 5, 1958
Creator: Bowman, James S., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library