Travel Air Commercial Airplane - Type 5000 (open access)

Travel Air Commercial Airplane - Type 5000

The 5000 is a semicantilever monoplane, closed cabin type, with pilot about in line with the leading edge of the wing and room for 4 passengers behind him. It is equipped with a Wright Whirlwind engine. A description of the visibility, propeller, power plant, pilot's cockpit, passenger cabin, landing gear, struts, wings, fuselage, empennage, general, characteristics, photographs, and drawings are provided.
Date: September 1927
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lift Theory of Supporting Surfaces: Second Article (open access)

Lift Theory of Supporting Surfaces: Second Article

Memorandum presenting a description of the hydrodynamic lift theory of supporting services. This report is mainly about the task of finding suitable wing sections for given lift conditions. Formulas are given for lift magnitude and moment, which make it possible to obtain solutions of great simplicity and clearness.
Date: September 1921
Creator: von Mises, R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Armstrong Whitworth "Starling" (British) (Single Seat Fighter) (open access)

The Armstrong Whitworth "Starling" (British) (Single Seat Fighter)

Circular describing the Armstrong-Whitworth "Starling", which is a single seat fighter that can be used for day fighting and night fighting. Details of the wings, wing bracing, lift characteristics, construction, internal components, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: September 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The C.A.M.S. 54 G.R. Transatlantic Seaplane (French) (open access)

The C.A.M.S. 54 G.R. Transatlantic Seaplane (French)

Tested at the end of March, 1928, the C.A.M.S. 54 G.R. was built for the purpose of crossing the Atlantic from Europe by way of the azores. It has a biplane construction with wings mounted above the hull. It is powered by two new series 500 HP. geared Hispano Suiza V type engines.
Date: September 1928
Creator: Ide, John Jay
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lecture on Aerodynamics (open access)

Lecture on Aerodynamics

This lecture deals with four main subjects: methods of studying air resistance, experimental aerodynamics, propellers and stability of airplanes.
Date: September 1923
Creator: Toussaint, A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drag Measurements on a Junkers Wing Section: Application of the Betz Method to the Results of Comparative Tests Made on a Model and on an Airplane in Flight (open access)

Drag Measurements on a Junkers Wing Section: Application of the Betz Method to the Results of Comparative Tests Made on a Model and on an Airplane in Flight

The comparison of model tests in flight can be based on the result of such measurements. They are very important from the aerodynamical point of view, as they lead to useful conclusions regarding the behavior of the wing, its best shape and the conformity of theoretical and actual flow. Although there still remains a certain prejudice against such measurements, I have still attempted to make these comparative tests in order to inspire confidence in their reliability.
Date: September 1927
Creator: Weidinger, Hanns
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomization of Liquid Fuels Part 3: Critical Discussion of Experimental Reesults, Mixing the Atomized Fuel with Air (open access)

Atomization of Liquid Fuels Part 3: Critical Discussion of Experimental Reesults, Mixing the Atomized Fuel with Air

This report provides a critical discussion of the results of the experiments conducted in the previous NACA-TM's 329 and 330. The main object of this investigation was to determine the size of the drops in mechanical atomization.
Date: September 1925
Creator: Kuehn, R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motive Power Required to Operate a Wind Tunnel (open access)

Motive Power Required to Operate a Wind Tunnel

The use of exit cones and different blade configurations to reduce the motive power required in wind tunnels is discussed in this report.
Date: September 1924
Creator: Ziembinski, S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aviation Spirit - Past, Present, and Future (open access)

Aviation Spirit - Past, Present, and Future

The volatile fuel of the high-speed internal combustion engine has, in the past, consisted almost exclusively of the lighter distillates from crude petroleum. Alternative and supplementary fuels are discussed such as: tetraline, dekalin, alcohol, cyclo-hexenes.
Date: September 1923
Creator: Dunstan, A. E. & Thole, F. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Travel of the Center of Pressure of Airfoils Transversely to the Air Stream (open access)

Travel of the Center of Pressure of Airfoils Transversely to the Air Stream

The experiments here described were performed for the purpose of obtaining the essential facts concerning the distribution of the air force along the span. We did not follow, however, the time-consuming method of point-to-point measurements of the pressure distribution on the wing surfaces, but determined directly the moment of mean force about an axis passing through the middle of the span parallel to the direction of flight.
Date: September 1929
Creator: Katzmayr, Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digest of Some of the Speeches Made at the Fifteenth Regular Meeting of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Für Luftfahrt: June 17, 1926, in Dusseldorf, Germany (open access)

Digest of Some of the Speeches Made at the Fifteenth Regular Meeting of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Für Luftfahrt: June 17, 1926, in Dusseldorf, Germany

Memorandum presenting a description of some of the speeches made at the fifteenth regular meeting of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Luftfahrt. Many of the speeches were conducted on aircraft design and construction, but some covered topics like statistics.
Date: September 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Relations With Air Traffic Companies and Owners of Touring Airplanes (open access)

Government Relations With Air Traffic Companies and Owners of Touring Airplanes

This report presents a recapitulation of air traffic in France and her colonies as well as a discussion of the subsidies provided by the government.
Date: September 1923
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Belgian Aerotechnical Laboratory at Rhode-Saint-Genèse (open access)

The Belgian Aerotechnical Laboratory at Rhode-Saint-Genèse

This report describes the layout of the laboratory along with the motor and balance for the wind tunnel.
Date: September 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building a Full-Size Glider (open access)

Building a Full-Size Glider

The building and flying of a glider is possible for anyone who can use a few basic tools. This report presents some plans and techniques for building your own glider.
Date: September 1927
Creator: Camm, F. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Farman Commercial Airplane "Jabiru" (open access)

The Farman Commercial Airplane "Jabiru"

Circular presenting a description of the Farman Jabiru F 3X, which was designed to satisfy the requirements of the aerial-navigation companies. Details regarding the power, wing, fuselage, landing gear, construction, engines, fuel tanks, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: September 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Albatros Commercial Airplane L 73 (open access)

Albatros Commercial Airplane L 73

The Albatros was a two engine commercial biplane carrying 2 pilots, eight passengers, and 160 KG of baggage. The framework is metal, the wings having plywood and fabric over the steel tubing. The L 73 was the first 2 engine biplane to be made in Germany.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Rühl, Karl & Wiederhold, Hasso
System: The UNT Digital Library
Control of Airplanes at Low Speeds (open access)

Control of Airplanes at Low Speeds

Loss of control over the orientation of an airplane as the incidence approaches and enters the region of stalled flight is a prolific cause of serious accidents. This report discusses methods of landing at slow speeds approaching stall.
Date: September 1923
Creator: Wood, R. McKinnon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of the Moments of Inertia of Full Scale Airplanes (open access)

Measurement of the Moments of Inertia of Full Scale Airplanes

"This paper contains a description of the method of measuring the moments of inertia of full scale airplanes as practiced by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. The method, while not at all new, is published for the information and guidance of others who may desire to make similar measurements. The paper includes as an appendix the computations for the moments of inertia of 0-2 airplane" (p. 1).
Date: September 1927
Creator: Green, M. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Drag of Airships I (open access)

The Drag of Airships I

Report presenting an examination of the drag of airships in order to design more functional aircraft and to obtain information for future research.
Date: September 1926
Creator: Havill, Clinton H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tests of the N.P.L. airship models in the variable density wind tunnel (open access)

Tests of the N.P.L. airship models in the variable density wind tunnel

Report presenting testing in the variable density wind tunnel on two airship models known as the NPL Standardization Models, long and short. The resistance or shape coefficients were determined for each model through a range of Reynolds numbers. Further work is found to be necessary in the standardization of wind tunnels.
Date: September 1927
Creator: Higgins, George J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Westland "Wapiti" (British) (open access)

Westland "Wapiti" (British)

The Widgeon Wapiti is a military aircraft suitable for a variety of roles. It is a normal tow-bay wire-braced biplane and can be powered by a variety of the Bristol Jupiter series engines.
Date: September 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on British Commercial Aeronautics (open access)

Preliminary Report on British Commercial Aeronautics

This report briefly recounts the history of British commercial aviation and then goes on to look at the equipment, governmental relations, operations, and air traffic.
Date: September 1925
Creator: Van Zandt, J. Parker
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atomization of Liquid Fuels Part 1: Relation Between Atomization and Combustion, Methods Employed for Determining the Size of Particles and Small Drops, Choice of Experimental Method (open access)

Atomization of Liquid Fuels Part 1: Relation Between Atomization and Combustion, Methods Employed for Determining the Size of Particles and Small Drops, Choice of Experimental Method

In the present treatise we will consider chiefly the problem of solid injection in comparison with air injection. On leaving the valve or nozzle through one or more small openings, the fuel is split up into innumerable fine drops, which penetrate the combustion chamber in divergent directions in the form of a conical jet. The efficiency of this jet is judged from the following three viewpoints: 1) with respect to the fineness of atomization; 2) with respect to the direction or distribution of sprayed particles; 3) with respect to the penetration of the particles.
Date: September 1925
Creator: Kuehn
System: The UNT Digital Library