Investigation of the Loads on a Typical Bubble-Type Canopy (open access)

Investigation of the Loads on a Typical Bubble-Type Canopy

Report presenting an investigation of the surface pressures of the outer and inner surface of the bubble-type canopy in order to determine their load requirements. Testing was performed on a Grumman F8F-1 airplane. The forces on the canopy was found to be the highest when the airplane is operating at high speed with the canopy closed.
Date: July 10, 1947
Creator: Cocke, Bennie W., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tuft Studies of the Flow over a Wing at Four Angles of Sweep (open access)

Tuft Studies of the Flow over a Wing at Four Angles of Sweep

Studies of the stalling characteristics show that the stall begins at the tip and moves inboard with increasing angle of attack at positive sweep; the sta11 begins at root and moves outboard at negative sweep (sweepforward). At +/-45 deg sweep the stall was less sharply defined than at the lower angles of sweep. No effect of Mach number on the.flow patterns as indicated by tufts was found in the speed range of these tests which extended to a Mach number of 0.55.
Date: July 10, 1947
Creator: Hieser, Gerald
System: The UNT Digital Library