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Full-Scale Wind-Tunnel Tests With a Series of Propellers of Different Diameters on a Single Fuselage (open access)

Full-Scale Wind-Tunnel Tests With a Series of Propellers of Different Diameters on a Single Fuselage

"Aerodynamic tests were made with four geometrically similar metal propellers of different diameters, on a Wright "Whirlwind" J-5 engine in an open cockpit fuselage. The results show little difference in the characteristics of the various propellers, the only one of any importance being an increase of efficiency of the order of 1 per cent for a 5 per cent increase of diameter, within the range of the tests" (p. 107).
Date: March 12, 1929
Creator: Weick, Fred E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interference of Wing and Fuselage From Tests of 28 Combinations in the N.A.C.A. Variable-Density Tunnel (open access)

Interference of Wing and Fuselage From Tests of 28 Combinations in the N.A.C.A. Variable-Density Tunnel

Report presents the results of tests conducted on 28 wing-fuselage combinations made in the variable-density wind tunnel as a part of the wing-fuselage interference program being conducted therein and in addition to the 209 combinations previously reported in NACA-TR-540. These tests practically complete the study of combinations with a rectangular fuselage and continue the study of combinations with a round fuselage and a tapered wing.
Date: March 12, 1936
Creator: Sherman, Albert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wind-tunnel investigation of wings with ordinary ailerons and full-span external-airfoil flaps (open access)

Wind-tunnel investigation of wings with ordinary ailerons and full-span external-airfoil flaps

Report presents an investigation carried out in the NACA 7- by 10-foot wind tunnel of an NACA 23012 airfoil equipped, first, with a full-span NACA 23012 external-airfoil flap having a chord 0.20 of the main airfoil chord and with a full-span aileron with a chord 0.12 of the main airfoil chord on the trailing edge of the main airfoil and equipped second, with a 0.30-chord full-span NACA 23012 external-airfoil flap and a 0.13-chord full-span aileron. The results are arranged in three groups, the first two of which deal with the airfoil characteristics of the two airfoil-flap combinations and with the internal-control characteristics of the airfoil-flap-aileron combinations. The third group of tests deals with several means for balancing ailerons mounted on a special large-chord NACA 23012 external-airfoil flap. The tests included an ordinary aileron, a curtained-nose balance, a frise balance, and a tab.
Date: March 12, 1937
Creator: Platt, Robert C. & Shortal, Joseph A.
System: The UNT Digital Library