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High-Speed Tests of a Model Twin-Engine Low-Wing Transport Airplane (open access)

High-Speed Tests of a Model Twin-Engine Low-Wing Transport Airplane

"Force tests were made of a 1/8-scale model of a twin-engine low-wing transport airplane in the NACA 8-foot high-speed wind tunnel to investigate compressibility and interference effects at speeds up to 450 miles per hour. In addition to tests of the standard arrangement of the model tests were made with several modifications designed to reduce the drag and to increase the critical speed. The results show serious increases in drag at critical speeds below 450 miles per hour due to the occurrence of compressibility burbles on the standard radial-engine cowlings, on sections of the wing as a result of wing-nacelle interference, and on the semi-retracted main landing wheels" (p. 1).
Date: April 1940
Creator: Becker, John V. & Leonard, Lloyd H.
System: The UNT Digital Library