Aerial Convention of October 13, 1919 (open access)

Aerial Convention of October 13, 1919

The aerial convention delegates are listed as well as the set of rules that were developed during the session.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Roper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Cooling: An Experimental Method of Evaluating the Cooling Effect of Air Streams on Air-Cooled Cylinders (open access)

Air Cooling: An Experimental Method of Evaluating the Cooling Effect of Air Streams on Air-Cooled Cylinders

In this report is described an experimental method which the writer has evolved for dealing with air-cooled engines, and some of the data obtained by its means. Methods of temperature measurement and cooling are provided.
Date: May 1927
Creator: Alcock, J. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air-Flow Experiments (open access)

Air-Flow Experiments

This report describes the apparatus used to take air-flow photographs. The photographs show chiefly the spiral course of the lines of flow near the tip of the wing. They constitute therefore a visual presentation of the phenomena covered by airfoil theory.
Date: May 1924
Creator: Wieselsberger, C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air traffic (open access)

Air traffic

This report presents a recounting of the steps taken by France to establish national and international regulation over air traffic.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Sudre, G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alloys Similar to Duralumin Made in Other Countries Than Germany (open access)

Alloys Similar to Duralumin Made in Other Countries Than Germany

Attempts by other countries to develop patents for alloys similar to duralumin are presented. Duralumin is aluminum alloyed with 3.5-4.5% copper, 0.5% magnesium, and 0.25-1% of manganese. A description of various materials that some have attempted to patent are provided.
Date: May 1925
Creator: Meissner, K. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aviation and Insurance (open access)

Aviation and Insurance

This article considers some of the causes which hinder the development of aircraft insurance. Different risks are discussed as well as the causes of aircraft accidents. Pilot error, poor airdromes, weather conditions, poorly adapted airplanes, and engine failures are all examined and some conclusions are made.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Mayo, R. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Balanced and Servo Control Surfaces (open access)

Balanced and Servo Control Surfaces

"Many reports on various control systems are available, but the results cannot be generally applied since the effect of particular changes of surface-form and mounting are subject to variations depending upon airfoil section and influences of airplane layout. This report presents a simple analysis of several control systems in more general use. Elevators, ailerons, and rudders are all discussed" (p. 1).
Date: May 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boundary Layer (open access)

Boundary Layer

From Introduction: "The fundamental, practically the most important branch of the modern mechanics of a viscous fluid or a gas, is that branch which concerns itself with the study of the boundary layer. The presence of a boundary layer accounts for the origin of the resistance and lift force, the breakdown of the smooth flow about bodies, and other phenomena that are associated with the motion of a body in a real fluid. The concept of boundary layer was clearly formulated by the founder of aerodynamics, N. E. Joukowsky, in his well-known work "On the Form of Ships" published as early as 1890."
Date: May 1956
Creator: Loitsianskii, L. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
British Certificates of Airworthiness (open access)

British Certificates of Airworthiness

This report details the rules and regulations for obtaining a British airworthiness certificate. Aircraft loading and construction are especially important.
Date: May 1921
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chief Characteristics and Advantages of Tailless Airplanes (open access)

Chief Characteristics and Advantages of Tailless Airplanes

This study will be concerned with the critical examination of two main questions, mainly, susceptibility of centering and more generally, the conditions of static stability, longitudinal equilibrium, and the question of dynamic stability, or at least the damping of longitudinal vibrations about a position of equilibrium that may result from a small variation in the angle of attack.
Date: May 1936
Creator: Dufaure De Lajarte, A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Choice of Air Routes (open access)

The Choice of Air Routes

The author lists rules for the development and planning of air routes. He uses as examples India and Texas, as well as discussing the need for more landing fields.
Date: May 1922
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined Pitching and Yawing Motion of Airplanes (open access)

Combined Pitching and Yawing Motion of Airplanes

This report treats the following problems: The beginning of the investigated motions is always a setting of the lateral controls, i.e., the rudder or the ailerons. Now, the first interesting question is how the motion would proceed if these settings were kept unchanged for some time; and particularly, what upward motion would set in, how soon, and for how long, since therein lie the dangers of yawing. Two different motions ensue with a high rate of turn and a steep down slope of flight path in both but a marked difference in angle of attack and consequently different character in the resultant aerodynamic forces: one, the "corkscrew" dive at normal angle, and the other, the "spin" at high angle.
Date: May 1931
Creator: v. Baranoff, A. & Hopf, L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on Crankless Engine Types (open access)

Comments on Crankless Engine Types

This report describes the leading crankless engine types, which have appeared in recent years. These types include: the Mitchell crankless motor car engine and the German Michel engine.
Date: May 1928
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Drop and Wind-Tunnel Experiments on Bomb Drag at High Subsonic Speeds (open access)

Comparison of Drop and Wind-Tunnel Experiments on Bomb Drag at High Subsonic Speeds

The drag coefficients of bombs at high velocities velocity of fall was 97 percent of the speed of sound) (the highest are determined by drop tests and compared with measurements taken in the DVL high-speed closed wind tunnel and the open jet at AVA - Gottingen.
Date: May 1948
Creator: Göthert, B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compression Struts With Nonprogressively Variable Moment of Inertia (open access)

Compression Struts With Nonprogressively Variable Moment of Inertia

The buckling failure conditions for a bar with nonprogressively variable moment of inertia J(sub n), although constant over length l(sub n), are developed.
Date: May 1938
Creator: Radomski, B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contribution to the Technique of Landing Large Airships: Part 1 (open access)

Contribution to the Technique of Landing Large Airships: Part 1

Many treatises in regard to construction of airship sheds are lacking in data on air currents, for which reason this phase of the problem will be here thoroughly discussed in connection with the accompanying photographs of currents.
Date: May 1929
Creator: Krell, O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contribution to the Technique of Landing Large Airships: Part 2 (open access)

Contribution to the Technique of Landing Large Airships: Part 2

Memorandum presenting a description of the development of the mooring mast and how it contributes to the technique of landing large airships. Some of its fundamental requirements and how it can factor into safe landings are provided.
Date: May 1929
Creator: Krell, O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of Resistance and Trimming Moment of Planing Water Craft (open access)

Determination of Resistance and Trimming Moment of Planing Water Craft

This report presents a new theory which makes it possible to interpret the resistance and the trimming moment for any loading of a planing aircraft when these values are given for one load. This application of the new theory forms the basis of the present paper. Derivations of various conversion formulas are given as well as numerous examples.
Date: May 1931
Creator: Schröder, P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of Stresses and Deformations of Aircraft Propellers (open access)

Determination of Stresses and Deformations of Aircraft Propellers

A method is described for testing the strength of propellers of any shape. It is shown that the shape of the propeller greatly affects the stresses, and that great caution must be exercised if the relieving effect of the centrifugal force, which exists in every propeller with a straight blade axis, is to be increased by curving the blade axis. In a numerical example, the calculation is made for a certain revolution speed at which the actual distortion is then measured. The results of the calculation agree satisfactorily with the experimental results.
Date: May 1932
Creator: Seewald, Friedrich
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining the Velocity Distribution in the Boundary Layer of an Airfoil Fitted With a Rotary Cylinder (open access)

Determining the Velocity Distribution in the Boundary Layer of an Airfoil Fitted With a Rotary Cylinder

In the closer investigation of the results obtained from a wing model with a rotary cylinder mounted in its leading edge (NACA TM's 307 and 354), the velocity distribution in the vicinity of the surface of the model was determined by a hot-wire anemometer. The results confirmed the belief that the rotary cylinder had considerable effect on the air flow, but demonstrated the fact that the direct influence of the cylinder is confined to a very thin layer in immediate proximity to the surface.
Date: May 1927
Creator: Van der Hegge Zijnen, B. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of the Junkers-Diesel Aircraft Engine (open access)

Development of the Junkers-Diesel Aircraft Engine

The working process of the Junkers engine has resulted from a series of attempts to attain high performance and to control the necessarily rapid and complete combustion at extremely high speeds. The two main problems of Diesel engines in aircraft are addressed; namely, incomplete combustion and the greater weight of Diesel engine parts compared to gasoline engines.
Date: May 1930
Creator: Gasterstädt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion of problems relating to the safety of aviation. Part 1 (open access)

Discussion of problems relating to the safety of aviation. Part 1

The object of the present treatise is to examine the present status of aerial safety and to review the efforts of various commissions to promote safety.
Date: May 1928
Creator: Sabatier, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion of problems relating to the safety of aviation. Part 2 (open access)

Discussion of problems relating to the safety of aviation. Part 2

This report focuses on structural strength and engine design in building and designing safer aircraft.
Date: May 1928
Creator: Sabatier, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Drag of Airplane Radiators With Special Reference to Air Heating (Comparison of Theory and Experiment) (open access)

The Drag of Airplane Radiators With Special Reference to Air Heating (Comparison of Theory and Experiment)

This report contains a survey of past radiator research. This report also is intended as a systematic comparison of theoretical and experimental radiator drag, with the object of ascertaining the most important loss sources and their interaction in different cases of installation, and to separate the radiator systems which are amenable to calculation, both as regards axial flow and drag. The sources of loss due to the diffuser are to be looked into closely as in many cases they can be of preeminent magnitude and their customary appraisal, according to Fliegner's formula, does not meet actual conditions.
Date: May 1939
Creator: Göthert, B.
System: The UNT Digital Library