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Report presenting data to determine the component and overall engine performance up to an altitude limit for the J71-A-11 (600-B36) turbojet engine. Engine operation using JP-4 fuel at Mach number 0.8 was satisfactory up to an altitude of about 60,000 to 65,000 feet, and engine operation with marginal combustion stability was maintained to an altitude of about 80,000 feet. Results regarding the altitude operating limits, component performance, overall engine performance, contribution of individual component losses to overall engine performance losses, exhaust-nozzle-area requirements, and altitude performance at rated engine conditions are provided.

Memorandum presenting an investigation of the J71-A-11 (600-B36) turbojet engine conducted in an altitude wind tunnel, and more specifically the component and overall engine performance up to the altitude limit imposed by the use of MIL-F-5624A, grade JP-4, fuel. The data were then extended to higher altitudes by the use of gaseous-hydrogen fuel. Results regarding altitude operating limits, component performance, overall engine performance, contribution of individual component losses to overall engine performance losses, exhaust-nozzle-area requirements, and altitude performance at rated engine conditions are provided.

Abstract: "Two transistor plug-in decade counters are described, one of which operates over the SCS-7 temperature range. A transistor digital scanner with storage and parallel readout is described. It utilizes one of the plug-in decades. A simple design procedure for flip-flops is presented."

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"A 49 degree swept-wing complete model equipped for high-pressure blowing full span at two chordwise locations at the leading edge of a full-span wing and over a half-span flap has been tested in the Langley full-scale tunnel to determine the effectiveness of blowing at the leading edge as a supplementary leading-edge stall control at high lift coefficients." The effect of blowing on the lift characteristics, pitching-moment characteristics, and drag characteristics of this particular model is described.

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The Nevada Test Site (NTS) Use Committee met Tuesday morning, May 28, 1957, at Mercury, Nevada. This document provides a summary of the meeting.

The following report describes a gaseous scintillation counting system, including the production and operation of the counter.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of Appropriation contained in Section 7 of Senate Bill 222 of the 55th Legislature - the insurance reorganization bill.

Report presenting an investigation in the transonic tunnel to determine the aerodynamic loading characteristics of a 3-percent-thick, aspect-ratio-2.06, 60 degree delta-wing-body combination at a range of Mach numbers and angles of attack. Results regarding pressure distributions, spanwise loadings, integrated wing coefficients, and tabulated pressure coefficients are provided.

"The phase and amplitude functions describing the betatron oscillations in the synchrotron are calculated using the revised parameters of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. The results are given numerically and plotted in a graph for one machine period."

This report addresses the constitution of zirconium-uranium alloys containing oxygen or nitrogen.

Since the installation of Ball 3X equipment on the older reactors, several inadvertent ball drops have been experienced, many of which have required considerable recovery time. Furthermore, it is very probable that these recovery times be significantly increased subsequent to the proposed installation of air accelerated vertical safety rods. Because of this, interest has been expressed by reactor operations personnel toward provision of a ball recovery system which would substantially reduce these outages.

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The construction of a critical assembly is proposed for determining the characteristics of the PWAC Na-cooled, heterogeneous aircraft reactor design. The experimental facility would be located at the CANEL site. The site meteorology, hydrology, geology, and topography are considered; the facility and critical assembly design is shown, and the extent of hazards from accidents and sabotage is evaluated. (D.E.B.)

Current Panellit protection procedures, termed instability limits, come from calculations based on steady state experiments. However, the actual conditions in a process tube following a plugging occurrence sufficient to cause unstable flow are transient rather than steady state, and cannot be determined with great precision except by transient state experimentation. As a result, a program was initiated by the thermal Hydraulics Operation of HLO to perform a series of transient heat transfer experiments which would define the process tube response to (1) rapid plugging in the process tube assembly, (2) slow plugging in the process tube assembly, and (3) power excursions above normal of varying amounts. Transient heat transfer experimentation on a large scale is not common and many difficulties have been encountered. After preliminary runs were made and reported, a further series of runs were planned and run which would include K as well as BDF type data and would define more closely the upper limit of the panellit protection. During the test runs, data from these transient experiments are recorded on high speed recording instruments, each of which has a calibration which is subject to change regardless of the efforts expended by the experimenters. This means that checking …

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether additional ad valorem taxes may be collected when the property was undervalued on the rendition sheet by the dropping of a digit and related question.

This report describes the operation of the fuels preparation department for the month of April 1957. Manufacturing, employee relations, process development, plant improvements, and financial operations are described.

"A convenient summary is given of useful formulas on the kinematics of high energy electron scattering together with a derivation of the relevant formulas for transforming from the center of mass to the laboratory system such parameters as scattering cross sections. The formulas derived hold for any two- body collision: the approximation (m = 0) employed for the electron scattering calculations is rigorously true for the elastic scattering of photons."

Two new production records were set during April, for processed U and Pu production. 0.9 tons sheared NRX fuel were dissolved in Redox. Discrepancies in Pu yield are being studied. Alternate methods of recovering Np are being evaluated. The Purex prototype facility will be converted to the anion exchange process. Alternate designs for a Purex miniature service dissolver were reviewed. The Purex HA column will be replaced.

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A full-scale turbojet engine was operated with pentaborane fuel continuously for 22 minutes at conditions simulating flight at a Mach number of 0.8 at an altitude of 50,000 feet. This period of operation is approximately three times longer than previously reported operation times. Although the specific fuel consumption was reduced from 1.3 with JP-4 fuel to 0.98 with pentaborane, a 13.2-percent reduction in net thrust was also encountered. A portion of this thrust loss is potentially recoverable with proper design of the engine components. The boron oxide deposition and erosion processes within the engine approached an equilibrium condition after approximately 22 minutes of operation with pentaborane.