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The Vickers "Vendace": A Land or Sea Training Biplane (open access)

The Vickers "Vendace": A Land or Sea Training Biplane

Circular describing the Vickers "Vendace", which is a land or sea training tractor biplane. Details of the design, wings, construction, control surfaces, fuselage, fabric, cockpits, fuel supply, landing gear, characteristics, and drawings are provided.
Date: May 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Armstrong-Whitworth "Argosy": The Latest Three-Engined Commercial Airplane (open access)

The Armstrong-Whitworth "Argosy": The Latest Three-Engined Commercial Airplane

Describes the utility of multi-engine aircraft with special regard to the Argosy, which will seat up to 20 passengers and who's engines turn out nearly 1200 HP. The Argosy had a top speed of 110 MPH, and a range of 400 miles.
Date: August 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Albert TE-1 Training Airplane (open access)

Albert TE-1 Training Airplane

The TE-1 is designed for the economical training of pilots and is a single seat parasol cantilever monoplane. It is nearly entirely made of wood, using a 40 HP. air-cooled Salmson A.D. 9 engine, and weighs 255 kg empty.
Date: December 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wibault Two-Seat Monoplane 8C2: An All-Metal Pursuit and Observation Airplane (open access)

Wibault Two-Seat Monoplane 8C2: An All-Metal Pursuit and Observation Airplane

Michel Wibault's two seat monoplane 8C2, is similar to the Parasol pursuit monoplane which preceded it. It has no perishable parts in its structure and needs no special storage or coverings. The sample aeroplane uses a 500 HP Hispano-Suiza engine but can accept a 400-600HP engine from a variety of manufacturers with little difficulty. It uses a two blade tractor propeller.
Date: June 1926
Creator: Serryer, J.
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
Effect of Roughness on Properties of Airfoils (open access)

Effect of Roughness on Properties of Airfoils

The first group of a large series of contemplated experiments on the effect of roughness was intended to show the effect of great roughness on airfoils of various sizes and attitudes.
Date: August 1926
Creator: Schrenk, O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lioré-Olivier Airplane: Type 12 Night-Bomber or Type 20 Commercial (open access)

Lioré-Olivier Airplane: Type 12 Night-Bomber or Type 20 Commercial

Report presenting a description of the Lioré-Olivier Type 12 night bomber, which can also be converted into the Type 20 commercial. A description of the cell of the wings, fuselage, power plant, landing gear, and flight characteristics is provided.
Date: March 1926
Creator: Serryer, J.
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
Recent Developments in the Construction and Operation of All-Metal Airplanes (open access)

Recent Developments in the Construction and Operation of All-Metal Airplanes

Experiments on the effect of atmosphere and of sea water on the building materials employed by us have been carried on for years in the North Sea with the aid of the Hamburg Naval Observatory. Parallel experiments are being made at the Pisa Naval Observatory in the Mediterranean Sea. Metal sheets, sections, assemblies and experimental floats are being exposed to the action of the elements. Different construction techniques are discussed and a variety of specific airplanes are presented which incorporate some of the new thinking.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Dornier, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Light and Small Airplanes (open access)

Development of Light and Small Airplanes

Memorandum presenting an overview of the development of light and small airplanes. Some of the characteristics explored include the development of airplanes of medium weight, development in countries other than Germany, development of light airplanes, general constructive fiducial lines, safety problems, the economy problem, and some special structural considerations are provided.
Date: July 1926
Creator: Lachmann, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spindled and Hollow Spars (open access)

Spindled and Hollow Spars

"The most usual method of arriving at the maximum amount of spindling or hollowing out permissible in the case of any particular spar section is by trial and error, a process which is apt to become laborious in the absence of good guessing - or luck. The following tables have been got out with the object of making it possible to arrive with certainty at a suitable section at the first attempt" (p. 1).
Date: October 1926
Creator: Blyth, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0337]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The above photos shows British Marines on duty at barbed wire entanglement and sand bag breast-work at the time of capture of Hankow and Hanyang by the Cantonese troops."
Date: November 1, 1926
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0238.0331]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This exclusive photo shows James T. Wooley , Boston designer and medalist , of the Society of Arts and Crafts, putting the finishing touches on the cross donated by President and Mrs. Coolidge for the altar to be erected at Mercersburg Academy , in memory of their son Calvin Coolidge Jr. , who died while a pupil there. The cross stands 33 inches high."
Date: October 7, 1926
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0044]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "We are in receipt of your telegram of this day requesting us to withhold public announcement"
Date: January 5, 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0233.0377]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Commissioner Landis is attempting to gather together all named in "Swede" Risberg's charges that Detroit "Sloughed" the 1927 series windup."
Date: January 2, 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0049]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Under the terms of our contract with you, it was agreed"
Date: March 9, 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0050]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "In replay to your recent communication, permit me to say that I am still of the opinion"
Date: March 15, 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0422.0054]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Please forward checks and other mail to me at Hobart, Oklahoma"
Date: August 9, 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Commencement Program for North Texas State Teachers College, August 17, 1926] (open access)

[Commencement Program for North Texas State Teachers College, August 17, 1926]

Commencement program for the 1926, class of North Texas State Teachers College, including the order of service and list of graduates.
Date: August 1926
Creator: North Texas State Teachers College
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inoculation of legumes and nonlegumes with nitrogen-fixing and other bacteria. (open access)

Inoculation of legumes and nonlegumes with nitrogen-fixing and other bacteria.

Describes methods of artificial inoculation of legumes with beneficial bacteria for the purpose of improving root development.
Date: August 1926
Creator: Löhnis, Felix, 1874- & Leonard, Lewis T. (Lewis Thompson), 1885-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pander Light Biplane: A School Two-Seater With 45 HP Anzani Engine (open access)

The Pander Light Biplane: A School Two-Seater With 45 HP Anzani Engine

Report presenting a description of the Pander light biplane, including a description of the construction and flying characteristics are provided.
Date: April 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The De Havilland "Moth" (open access)

The De Havilland "Moth"

Officially designated D.H. 60, De Havilland's Moth is a small, simply made, 770 lb. aircraft. It has had it's fittings reduced in number to assist in this, seats 2 (including pilot) and uses a Cirrus 60 HP. engine.
Date: October 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Boulton and Paul "Bugle" Airplane: Day Bomber (open access)

The Boulton and Paul "Bugle" Airplane: Day Bomber

The Bugle is a twin engine tractor biplane. It features two Jupiter engines and oleo-pneumatic landing gear. Its maximum speed is 120 MPH.
Date: December 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Supermarine "Southampton" Seaplane: Observation or Bomber (open access)

The Supermarine "Southampton" Seaplane: Observation or Bomber

Purchased for the British Air Ministry, the Southampton seaplane uses 2 Napier Lion engines and has a boat hull with outriggers mounted on the wings. It was designed as a military aircraft and can be easily converted to a bomber. A description of the design, flight characteristics, and photographs and blueprints are provided.
Date: December 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library