Blériot Combat Monoplane 127 (French) (open access)

Blériot Combat Monoplane 127 (French)

The 127 is a cantilever monoplane without external bracing. It is designed to accompany and protect bombardment and observation aircraft. Descriptions of the airfoil, fuselage, power plant, landing gears, and armament are provided.
Date: November 1928
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Knock-Limited Performance of S Reference Fuel Plus 2 Milliliters of Triethylthallium Per Gallon (open access)

The Knock-Limited Performance of S Reference Fuel Plus 2 Milliliters of Triethylthallium Per Gallon

Report discusses the results of testing of thallium as an antiknock agent in an internal-combustion engine. From Introduction: "On a weight basis, the thallium vapors were found to have several times the antiknock value of tetraethyl lead, which was added to the fuel. The amount of thallium vapor necessary to raise the antiknock properties of a gasoline up to exact equivalence with a benzol-gasoline mixture was determined in these engine tests."
Date: November 1945
Creator: Meyer, Carl L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Villiers 24" Slotted-Wing Airplane (French): Night Pursuit Sesquiplane (open access)

"Villiers 24" Slotted-Wing Airplane (French): Night Pursuit Sesquiplane

The Villiers 24 C.A.N. 2 is a night pursuit sesquiplane equipped with the 450 HP direct-drive Lorraine 12 Eb engine. It is characterized by Handley Page slotted wings. Details of the construction, wings, flaps, controls, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1928
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigations toward simplification of missile control systems (open access)

Investigations toward simplification of missile control systems

Paper presenting three ideas regarding potential simplifications of missile-control systems in order to make them more reliable without sacrificing system performance. The three methods presented include an autorotating-vane spoiler, a bellows flap, and free controls. All are based on modified airplane control systems.
Date: November 12, 1953
Creator: Curfman, Howard J., Jr.; Strass, H. Kurt & Crane, Harold L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Guilleman J.G. 10 (French) : A Two-Place Touring Low-Wing Monoplane (open access)

The Guilleman J.G. 10 (French) : A Two-Place Touring Low-Wing Monoplane

Circular describing the Guillemin J.G. 10, which is a two-place touring low-wing monoplane. Details of the wing, fuselage, engine, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1931
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vickers "Viastra I" Commercial Airplane (British): A High-Wing All-Metal Semicantilever Monoplane (open access)

Vickers "Viastra I" Commercial Airplane (British): A High-Wing All-Metal Semicantilever Monoplane

Circular describing the Vickers Viastra I, which is a commercial high-wing all-metal semicantilever monoplane. Details of the structure, fuselage, wings, fuel tanks, landing gear, tail, cabin, cockpit, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1930
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
PTA-1: A Computer Program for Analysis of Pressure Transients in Hydraulic Networks, Including the Effect of Pipe Plasticity (open access)

PTA-1: A Computer Program for Analysis of Pressure Transients in Hydraulic Networks, Including the Effect of Pipe Plasticity

The computer program PTA-1 performs pressure-transient analysis of large piping networks using the one-dimensional method of characteristics applied to a fluid-hammer formulation. The effect of elastic-plastic deformation of piping on pulse propagation is included in the computation. The program is particularly oriented toward the analysis of the effects of a sodium/water reaction on the intermediate heat-transport system of a liquid-metal-cooled fast breeder reactor, but may be applied just as usefully to other pulse sources and other piping systems. PTA-1 is capable of treating complex piping networks and includes a variety of junction types. Pipe friction and nonlinear velocity terms are included in the formulation. The program requires a minimum of input-data preparation and is designed to be easily used and modified. This report contains the governing equations, program structure, input requirements, program listing, and other information for PTA-1.
Date: November 1976
Creator: Youngdahl, C. K. & Kot, C. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Class Notes for a PL/I Course (open access)

Class Notes for a PL/I Course

Presented here are notes for a course in PL/I. They might serve as a guide to those who are developing a course, or as class notes for that course. They might be useful as a textbook independent of any course; as such a textbook, however, they are not self-contained because of the built-in assumption that they will supplement lectures and be accompanied by manuals. Very nearly the full language is taught here, with the emphasis on concepts rather than practical details. Discussion of I/O is avoided until roughly the midpoint of the course. The hoped-for consequence for students is an enhanced perception and understanding of the many concepts and their logical relationships. The dawning of the age of transportability for PL/I programs gives the user a reason, for the first time, to avoid convenient but illegal language.
Date: November 1975
Creator: Dritz, Kenneth W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biaxial Creep Behavior of Ribbed GCFR Cladding at 650 degrees C in Nominally Pure Helium (99. 99%) (open access)

Biaxial Creep Behavior of Ribbed GCFR Cladding at 650 degrees C in Nominally Pure Helium (99. 99%)

Biaxial creep-rupture tests were conducted on 12 prototypic GCFR fuel-cladding specimens at 650 deg C and a nominal hoop stress of 241.3 MPa. All test specimens were fabricated from 20% cold-worked Type 316 stainless steel tubes that were ribbed on the outer surface by mechanical grinding or electro-chemical etching. Test variables included specimen length and the presence or absence of weld-reinforcing end collars.
Date: November 1977
Creator: Yaggee, F. L.; Purohit, A.; Grajek, W. J. & Poeppel, R. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U-Pu-Zr Metal Alloy: a Potential Fuel for LMFBR's (open access)

U-Pu-Zr Metal Alloy: a Potential Fuel for LMFBR's

This report critically reviews the available information pertinent to the potential use of uranium-plutonium-zirconium alloy fuels clad with stainless steel in LMFBR's. The areas considered include breeding potential, burnup potential, thermal performance, fuel fabricability, fuel reprocessing, and safety considerations. Because information on uranium-plutonium-zirconium alloys is limited, wide use is made of experience with EBR-II metallic driver fuel to infer advantages and limitations of uranium-plutonium-zirconium fuels. It is concluded that sufficient potential exists for the applicability of uranium-plutonium-zirconium fuels to LMBFR's to warrant additional analytical and experimental studies.
Date: November 1975
Creator: Walter, C. M.; Golden, G. H. & Olson, N. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the Eighth DOE Solar Photochemistry Research Conference Held at Interlaken Conference Center, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, June 11-14, 1984 (open access)

Proceedings of the Eighth DOE Solar Photochemistry Research Conference Held at Interlaken Conference Center, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, June 11-14, 1984

These annual meetings bring together contractors of the Division of Chemical Sciences in its basic research program on solar photochemical energy conversion to exchange information and to give interested government officials an opportunity to assess the current status of the program. This year's meeting was joined by 12 Canadian scientists with similar interests in solar photochemistry. This volume contains the program of the meeting, a list of attendees, the abstracts of 29 formal presentations and 36 posters, and a record of questions and answers following each presentation.
Date: November 1984
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Fuel Cell Development Progress Report: April-June 1984 (open access)

Advanced Fuel Cell Development Progress Report: April-June 1984

Quarterly report discussing fuel cell research and development work at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). These efforts have been directed toward seeking alternative cathode materials to NiO for molten carbonate fuel cells. Particular emphasis has been placed on studying the relationship between synthesis conditions and the resistivity of doped and undoped LiFeO2 and Li2 MnO3 and on achieving a better understanding of the crystalline defect structures of the thermodynamically stable phases.
Date: November 1984
Creator: Pierce, Robert Dean; Claar, T. D.; Dees, D. W.; Fousek, R. J.; Kaun, T. D.; Kucera, C. H. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The A.N.E.C. IV "Missel Thrush" light airplane (open access)

The A.N.E.C. IV "Missel Thrush" light airplane

A product of the Air Navigation Engineering Co., the Missel Thrush is a light airplane suitable for private ownership. It is a two seat tractor fuselage biplane with single I interplane struts designed by J. Bewsher.
Date: November 1926
Creator: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fairey "Battle" Medium Bomber Airplane (British): An All-Metal Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane (open access)

Fairey "Battle" Medium Bomber Airplane (British): An All-Metal Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the Fairey "Battle", which is the first stressed-skin aircraft they have constructed and is also an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane. Details of the fuselage, wings, skin, design, flaps, landing gear, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ditching Tests With 1/10-Size Model of the Army a-20a Airplane 1: Calm-Water Tests in NACA Tank No.2 (open access)

Ditching Tests With 1/10-Size Model of the Army a-20a Airplane 1: Calm-Water Tests in NACA Tank No.2

Report presenting tests to determine the behavior of landplanes when they are forced to land on the water. The report is incomplete.
Date: November 1943
Creator: Dawson, John R. & Jarvis, George A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Avia Pursuit Airplane B.H. 21 (open access)

Avia Pursuit Airplane B.H. 21

Built by the 'Czecho-Slovakian' aircraft factory, AVIA, the B.H. 21, has a top speed of 250 MPH, and carries 120 kg of gasoline and 20 kg of oil, giving it a radius of action of 600-650 km. It is equipped with a Hispano-Suiza engine capable of 300 HP. Details of the design, structure, wings, stabilizer, fuselage, controls, fuel tanks, landing gear, tail, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1926
Creator: Serryer, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nieuport-Delage 590 Military Airplane (French): A Two-Place High-Wing Cantilever Monoplane (open access)

Nieuport-Delage 590 Military Airplane (French): A Two-Place High-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the Nieuport-Delage 590 three-engine colonial cantilever monoplane, which meets the requirements of the program established by the French Government. Information is provided regarding the design, construction, and instruments are provided.
Date: November 1932
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Saunders "Cutty Sark" Commercial Seaplane (British): A High-Wing Monoplane Flying Boat (open access)

The Saunders "Cutty Sark" Commercial Seaplane (British): A High-Wing Monoplane Flying Boat

Circular describing the Saunders Cutty Sark commercial seaplane, which is a high-wing monoplane flying boat. Details regarding the power unit, engines, fuel system, components, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Small Jet of Air Exhausting From the Nose of a Body of Revolution in Supersonic Flow (open access)

The Effects of a Small Jet of Air Exhausting From the Nose of a Body of Revolution in Supersonic Flow

Report presenting the results of an investigation to determine the effects of a small jet of air exhausting from the nose of an elliptical body of revolution upon boundary-layer transition and the viscous, pressure, and total drag of the forebody at three body stations at Mach number 1.62. The jet effects on body pressure, pressure variations, boundary-layer transition, and total drag are provided.
Date: November 12, 1952
Creator: Love, Eugene S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on the Problem of the Atmosphere in Relation to Aeronautics (open access)

Preliminary Report on the Problem of the Atmosphere in Relation to Aeronautics

A report to the Weather Bureau, Washington DC, from the chairman of the Subcommittee on the Atmosphere in Relation to Aeronautics describing the activities accomplished and the proposal of work to be undertaken by the subcommittee.
Date: November 9, 1915
Creator: Marvin, Charles F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
On the Flow of a Compressible Fluid by the Hodography Method 2: Fundamental Set of Particular Flow Solutions of the Chaplygin Differential Equation (open access)

On the Flow of a Compressible Fluid by the Hodography Method 2: Fundamental Set of Particular Flow Solutions of the Chaplygin Differential Equation

Report presenting the utilization of the differential equation of Chaplygin's jet problem to give a systematic development of particular solutions of the hodograph flow equations, which extends the treatment of Chaplygin into the supersonic range and completes the set of particular solutions. The solutions serve to place on a reasonable basis the use of velocity correction formulas for the comparison of incompressible and compressible flows.
Date: November 1944
Creator: Kaplan, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effect of exhaust-stack shape on the design and performance of the individual cylinder exhaust-gas jet-propulsion system (open access)

The effect of exhaust-stack shape on the design and performance of the individual cylinder exhaust-gas jet-propulsion system

Report presenting tests on a single-cylinder, air-cooled engine to determine the effect of several different exhaust-stack shapes on the design and performance of the individual cylinder exhaust-gas jet-propulsion systems. Results regarding the effect of nozzle area and stack shape on exhaust-gas jet thrust, effect of nozzle area and stack shape on overall performance for the S-shape, the 90 degree bend, and the 180 degree bend, the effect on the shape on engine power and volumetric efficiency, and the effect of a branched stack on engine power are provided.
Date: November 1942
Creator: Turner, L. Richard & Humble, Leroy V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The problem of longitudinal stability and control at high speeds (open access)

The problem of longitudinal stability and control at high speeds

Report discussing the difficulty in pulling of high-speed dives, which is primarily due to the effect of compressibility on the lift of the wing. Some of the means described for providing increased longitudinal control include auxiliary flaps and a controllable stabilizer.
Date: November 1943
Creator: Hood, Manley J. & Allen, H. Julian
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mathematical treatise on the recovery from a flat spin (open access)

Mathematical treatise on the recovery from a flat spin

In this mathematical investigation, made in collaboration with Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, we interpret the temporary change (due to some disturbance) in the quantities which define the position of the airplane while in a flat spin. We further examine the effect of this change, of the means resorted to to produce the disturbance, and thus reveal the expedients available for recovering from a flat spin.
Date: November 1930
Creator: Fuchs, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library