The Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 16 Military Airplane (British): A Single-Seat Biplane (open access)

The Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 16 Military Airplane (British): A Single-Seat Biplane

Circular presenting a description of the A.W. XVI, which is a single-bay staggered biplane of metal construction with a clean external design. A description of the tail unit, control system, cockpit, fuselage, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: January 1932
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turbulence and Mechanism of Resistance on Spheres and Cylinders (open access)

Turbulence and Mechanism of Resistance on Spheres and Cylinders

The nature of turbulent flow through pipes and around obstacles is analyzed and illustrated by photographs of turbulence on screens and straighteners. It is shown that the reversal of flow and of the resistance law on spheres is not explainable by Prandtl's turbulence in the boundary layer. The investigation of the analogous phenomena on the cylinder yields a reversal of the total field of flow.
Date: January 1932
Creator: Ahlborn, F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Testing of Airplane Shock-Absorbing Struts (open access)

Dynamic Testing of Airplane Shock-Absorbing Struts

"Measurement of perpendicular impacts of a landing gear with different shock-absorbing struts against the drum testing stand. Tests were made with pneumatic shock absorbers having various degrees of damping, liquid shock absorbers, steel-spring shock absorbers and rigid struts. Falling tests and rolling tests. Maximum impact and gradual reduction of the impacts in number and time in the falling tests. Maximum impact and number of weaker impacts in rolling tests" (p. 1).
Date: January 1932
Creator: Langer, P. & Thomé, W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tests of N.A.C.A. airfoils in the variable-density wind tunnel Series 24 (open access)

Tests of N.A.C.A. airfoils in the variable-density wind tunnel Series 24

"This note is the fifth of a series covering an investigation of a number of related airfoils. It presents the results obtained from tests of a group of six low-cambered airfoils in the variable-density wind tunnel. The mean camber lines are identical for the six airfoils and are of such a form that the maximum mean camber is 2 per cent of the chord and is at a position 0.4 of the chord behind the loading edge. The airfoils differ in thickness only, the maximum-thickness/chord ratios being 0.06, 0.09, 0.12, 0.15, 0.18, and 0.21" (p. 1).
Date: January 1932
Creator: Jacobs, Eastman N. & Ward, Kenneth E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and Costs of Mining and Preparing Sand and Gravel at the Plant of the Ward Sand and Gravel Co., Oxford, Michigan (open access)

Methods and Costs of Mining and Preparing Sand and Gravel at the Plant of the Ward Sand and Gravel Co., Oxford, Michigan

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the operation and production of the Ward Sand and Gravel Company in Oxford, Michigan. The methods and costs employed by the company are presented. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: January 1932
Creator: Ward, Frederick L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stresses Produced in Airplane Wings by Gusts (open access)

Stresses Produced in Airplane Wings by Gusts

Accurate prediction of gust stress being out of the question because of the multiplicity of the free air movements, the exploration of gust stress is restricted to static method which must be based upon: 1) stress measurements in free flight; 2) check of design specifications of approved type airplanes. With these empirical data the stress must be compared which can be computed for a gust of known intensity and structure. This "maximum gust" then must be so defined as to cover the whole ambit of empiricism and thus serve as prediction for new airplane designs.
Date: January 1932
Creator: Küssner, Hans Georg
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dornier Do K Commercial Airplane (German): A High-Wing Cantilever Monoplane (open access)

The Dornier Do K Commercial Airplane (German): A High-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Report presenting a description of the Dornier Do K commercial airplane. Details of the construction, design, wing, fuselage, tail, and landing gear are provided.
Date: January 1932
Creator: Heinze, Edwin P. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mechanism of Atomization Accompanying Solid Injection (open access)

The Mechanism of Atomization Accompanying Solid Injection

"A brief historical and descriptive account of solid injection is followed by a detailed review of the available theoretical and experimental data that seem to throw light on the mechanism of this form of atomization. It is concluded that this evidence indicates that (1) the atomization accompanying solid injection occurs at the surface of the liquid after it issues as a solid stream from the orifice; and (2) that such atomization has a mechanism physically identical with the atomization which takes place in an air stream, both being due merely to the formation, at the gas-liquid interface, of fine ligaments under the influence of the relative motion of gas and liquid, and to their collapse, under the influence of surface tension, to form the drops in the spray" (p. 735).
Date: January 6, 1932
Creator: Castleman, R. A., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Investigation of Modifications to Conventional Airplanes to Give Nonstalling and Short-Landing Characteristics (open access)

Preliminary Investigation of Modifications to Conventional Airplanes to Give Nonstalling and Short-Landing Characteristics

"This report describes flight and landing tests made on a group of conventional airplanes. The upward deflection of the elevators was limited to the point where the airplanes could not be made to spin without the aid of power. With the elevator travel thus limited, the airplane in every case had good lateral stability and good aileron effectiveness up to the highest angles of attack which could be obtained in a glide, although this was not true in any case without the limited control" (p. 343).
Date: January 25, 1932
Creator: Weick, Fred E.
System: The UNT Digital Library