Report of an investigation to determine the effect of surface roughness on the performance of a 23 degree conical diffusers with 2:1 ratio of exit to inlet area and a constant-area tail pipe. Information about the pressure survey results, including total-pressure-loss coefficient, diffuser effectiveness, and boundary-layer profiles is provided.

Report presenting an investigation at a Mach number of 1.24 to determine the distribution of lift, drag, and pitching moment between the wing and fuselage of a scale semispan model of the Bell X-5 airplane. Lift, drag, pitching moments, and wing bending moments were obtained for various angles of attack for 40 through 60 degrees sweptback duralumin wings in the presence of, but detached from, the fuselage.

Technical report presenting the results of a study of the AEC thorium production facilities at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Operating procedures, descriptions of equipment and a production cost analysis have been included in this study.

Paper using the Bernoulli equation for nonsteady flow to derive formulas for propeller lift and thrust distribution in terms of wake-survey measurements of stagnation pressure rise through the propeller. Lift distributions and overall values of thrust from wake survey were compared with direct measurements of those values.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners' Court to require the County Auditor to handle pay roll deductions, accounts, and reports covering social security for county employees.

A general discussion of the air-inlet problem is presented. Recently obtained drag and pressure-recovery data for transonic-type nose, scoop, and wing-root inlets are summarized. Preliminary results concerning the performance of the sharp-edged supersonic-type inlets at transonic and subsonic speeds also are given.

The purpose of this report is to present a basis for the application of slug corrosion rate data to corrosion limitations on pile power levels.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners' Court to lease or sell a hospital building to a non-profit private organization for operation as an old folks' home.

Introduction: The experimental work at Mound Laboratory on bismuth casting and the sealing of aluminum irradiation containers is an outgrowth of the bismuth recovery project. Since the recovered bismuth contains residual activity it is necessary that the bismuth be processed to the point that no contamination will result from shipment or any subsequent operations required to prepare the bismuth for irradiation. In order to satisfy these requirements the work here has consisted of investigating methods of preparing the bismuth slugs in the shapes required and of mechanically sealing the aluminum container.

"The object of the research project described herein is to present the design basis for test apparatus to determine the heat-transfer and pressure-drop characteristics of white fuming nitric acid flowing in a heated tube section. The heat flux to the tube will be of the order of magnitude occurring in a regeneratively cooled rocket engine" (p. 1).

Report presenting an investigation of the effects of a variation of Reynolds number on the forces, moments, and surface pressures on a semispan model of a wing with 35 degrees of sweepback, an aspect ratio of 5, a taper ratio of 0.7, and the NACA 65(sub 1)A012 section in planes parallel to the plane of symmetry.

Report presenting pressure distributions and Schileren photographs of the flow around a 10-percent-thick diamond airfoil at zero lift in two-dimensional closed, slotted, and open-throat tunnels. Results regarding the effect of slot area ratio and effect of slot spacing are provided.

Report presenting an investigation of the overall performance of a 20-inch-tip-diameter 10-stage compressor as the initial step to examine the problems encountered in an axial-flow compressor with a high pressure ratio per stage. The investigation was carried out over a range of weight flows and percentages of the design speed. Results regarding the part-speed efficiency, surge characteristics, overspeed characteristics, compressor discharge Mach number, and stage characteristics are provided.

Abstract: A drilling program was conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission on Cove Mesa, Arizona to further develop uranium and vanadium ore reserves that are vital to the National Defense. The drilling was performed by the Minerals Engineering Company of Grand Junction, Colorado. Uranium and vanadium ore horizons are found in the Salt Wash member of the Morrison formation on Cove Mesa.

Quarterly summary report of studies conducted through the University of California Radiation Laboratory. Some results reported in the report may be of a preliminary or incomplete nature.

Report presenting the results of a free-flight investigation to determine the drag of circular, finite-length cylinders for a range of Mach numbers. For supersonic speeds, the drag of circular cylinders was found to be largely independent of fineness ratio and Reynolds number.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Necessity for the answer to plaintiff's petition in civil suits in justice courts to be in writing.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Necessity for advance approval by the Board of Control on monthly construction estimates and change orders on hospital construction projects.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Eligibility of a member of a county board of school trustees to continue to serve when a commissioners' court order changing the boundaries of commissioners' precinct has placed the trustee's residence outside the precinct from which he was elected.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Game and Fish Commission to contract for the removal of rough fish from public fresh waters in counties where commercial fishing is prohibited.

Abstract: "A method has been devised and successfully used for marking a leaking pile process tube prior to its removal from the pile, such that subsequent location of the leak is more easily accomplished. An acetone solution of Testor's Dark Red Airplane Dope is poured into the suspect tube. The solution leaks from the hole and stains the surrounding area a light pink. To date the method has been used on tubes 3573F, 0486F, 0867F, and 3670F."

A slug of air-saturated distilled water was circulated for 317 hours at a velocity of 15 feet per second in an AISI 347 stainless-steel toroid with a wall temperature of 500 F and a 30 F difference in temperature between the hot and cold sections. The depth of corrosion layer was 0.001 inch (0.028 in./yr) in the hot sector and 0.0007 inch (0.019 in./yr) in the cold sector; no mass transfer was observed. The results of gas,water,and X-ray diffraction analyses are given together with photomicrographs of sections taken from the hot and cold sections of the specimen.

Report presenting an experimental investigation of the flow field downstream of a canard-type control surface and in the vicinity of a symmetrical body in the 8- by 6-foot supersonic tunnel at Mach numbers of 1.8 and 2.0. The results indicated severe total pressure losses and large flow deflections in the control surface wake.

Report presenting an experimental investigation to determine the performance of twin-scoop side inlets located on the fuselage of a proposed aircraft in a region of large boundary-layer thickness. Inlet configurations with subsonic and supersonic cowlings which utilized two-dimensional compression ramps and ram-type scoops for boundary-layer-removal systems were investigated at several Mach number ranges. Results regarding supersonic Mach number range, angle of attack, subsonic Mach number, and static conditions are provided.