Effect of Compressibility on Pressure Distribution Over an Airfoil With a Slotted Frise Aileron (open access)

Effect of Compressibility on Pressure Distribution Over an Airfoil With a Slotted Frise Aileron

Pressure distribution measurements were made over an airfoil with slotted Frise aileron up to 0.76 Mach at various angles of attack and aileron defections. Section characteristics were determined from these pressure data. Results indicated loss of aileron rolling power for deflections ranging from -12 Degrees to -19 Degrees.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Luoma, Arvo A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Method for the Rapid Estimation of Turbulent Boundary-Layer Thickness for Calculating Profile Drag (open access)

A Method for the Rapid Estimation of Turbulent Boundary-Layer Thickness for Calculating Profile Drag

"An analysis is developed that makes it possible to integrate von Kármán's boundary-layer momentum equation directly. For this purpose, the skin friction coefficient is expressed as a function of the Reynolds number based on the boundary-layer momentum thickness and the boundary-layer shape is assumed to be constant. The integrated equation permits the boundary-layer momentum thickness at the airfoil trailing edge to be rapidly determined for the estimation of airfoil profile-drag coefficients" (p .1).
Date: July 1944
Creator: Tetervin, Neal
System: The UNT Digital Library
NACA Mach Number Warning Device for Use in Flight (open access)

NACA Mach Number Warning Device for Use in Flight

Report presenting an instrument for warning the pilot of the approach of the airplane to critical speed conditions. The device closes a contact that completes the electrical circuit of a suitable warning indicators when a predetermined limiting Mach number is approached. It can be used to operate any electrical apparatus through the use of suitable relays.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Goodman, Jerry
System: The UNT Digital Library
The knock-limited performance of several miscellaneous fuels blended with a base fuel (open access)

The knock-limited performance of several miscellaneous fuels blended with a base fuel

Report presenting investigations to determine the knock-limited performance of blends of 90 percent by volume AN-F-28, Amendment-2 fuel, and 10 percent by volume of the following fuels: tert-amyl alcohol, 2,6-dimethyl-1, 4-dioxane, methyl tert-butyl ether, methyl tert-butyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, mesityl oxide, acetone, and diisopropyl ketone.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Bellman, Donald R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimation of Pressure Distributions at Subcritical Speeds for Turrets Located on a Wing (open access)

Estimation of Pressure Distributions at Subcritical Speeds for Turrets Located on a Wing

Report presenting the use of current methods that include interference and compressibility effects to estimate pressures over and near turrets located on a wing in regions of high interference velocities. The agreement between measured and estimated pressures indicated that present methods are adequate for predicting approximate critical speeds and for estimating loads at subcritical speeds with sufficient accuracy for design purposes.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Ritchie, Virgil S. & Daniels, Everett J.
System: The UNT Digital Library