Describes the necessity of water in everyday life, the water cycle, and provides suggestions for the management of watersheds.

Discusses the importance of snap beans as a crop, its adaptability and varieties, its planting and care, as well as its disease and insect enemies and how to control them.

A guide to the basic principles of forest management, for use by small forest owners.

Memorandum presenting a wing-root inlet configuration in which inlet components were varied and was tested in the 4- by 4-foot supersonic pressure tunnel at 3 Mach numbers. Angles of attack and sideslip ranges were also varied. Inlet performance and engine-flow distortions as affected by pitch, sideslip, inlet-lip sweep, contraction ratio, boundary-layer control, and engine bypass are presented and discussed.

"The trajectories of droplets in the air flowing past a 36.5-percent-thick Joukowski airfoil at zero angle of attack were determined. The amount of water in droplet form impinging on the airfoil, the area of droplet impingement, and the rate of droplet impingement per unit area on the airfoil surface were calculated from the trajectories and cover a large range of flight and atmospheric conditions. With the detailed impingement information available, the 36.5-percent-thick Joukowski airfoil can serve the dual purpose of use as the principal element in instruments for making measurements in clouds and of a basic shape for estimating impingement on a thick streamlined body" (p. 1).

Report presenting flight testing of a rocket-powered model of a cruciform canard missile configuration with a low-aspect-ratio wing and blunt nose. Results regarding the lift coefficient, dynamic stability, static stability, control effectiveness, and drag are provided.

Report presenting the lift and drag characteristics of a 60-degree delta-wing interceptor airplane with fuselage extension and indentation at a range of Mach numbers and altitudes. A comparison with a prototype airplane and a comparison of the flight results with the model tests are provided.

Note presenting a thermal system that can be used to determine whether the boundary layer on a wing in flight is turbulent or laminar. Tests were made of the system in the low-turbulence pressure tunnel. Other instruments and materials that could be used to enhance the system are described.

Memorandum presenting two turbine stator configurations designed to investigate the effect on turbine performance of either reducing or eliminating stator-blade wakes, secondary-flow loss accumulations, and circumferential variations in total pressure at the stator exits. Results regarding stator surveys, overall performance with the semivaneless stator, overall performance with the standard stator with spacer, rotor-exit surveys, and rotor-blade momentum loss are provided.

Memorandum presenting a performance investigation using hydrogen fuel in a full-scale afterburner conducted with particular study of fuel-injector configurations and afterburner length. A total of seven fuel-injector configurations, grouped by type as concentric ring or radial bar, were investigated at a specified burner-inlet velocity and range of burner-inlet total pressures.

"As a continuation of an investigation of the ejection release characteristics of an internally carried MB-1 rocket in the Convair F-106A airplane, fin modifications at additional Mach numbers and simulated altitudes have been studied in the 27- by 27-inch preflight jet of the Langley Pilotless Aircraft Research Station at Wallops Island, Va. The MB-1 rocket was ejected with fins open, fins closed, fins closed with a shroud around the fins, and fins folded with a "boattail" placed in between the fins. Dynamically scaled models (0.0^956 scale) were tested at simulated altitudes of 12,000, 18,850, and 27,500 feet at subsonic Mach numbers and at 18,850, 27,500, and 40,000 feet for Mach numbers of 1-39, 1-59, and 1.98" (p. 1).

Memorandum presenting an investigation of ice formation on a full-scale unheated supersonic nose inlet in the icing tunnel to determine its effect on compressor-face total-pressure distortion and recovery. Inlet angle of attack was varied from 0 to 12 degrees, free-stream Mach number from 0.17 to 0.28, and compressor-face Mach number from 0.10 to 0.47. The addition of ice to the inlet components was found to increase total-pressure-distortion levels and decreased recovery values compared with clear-air results, the losses increasing with time in ice.

Report presenting an investigation of an axial-flow turbojet engine in the altitude wind tunnel, including limitations on transient operation of the engine in relation to two altitudes and exhaust-nozzle-areas. Results regarding hysteresis, frequency of surge and stall, altitude effect, exhaust-nozzle-area effect, and a comparison of steady-state and transient surge lines are provided.

"The literature on turbulent heat transfer has in the course of years attained a considerable volume. Since this very complicated problem has not as yet found a complete solution, further studies in this field may be expected. The heat engineer must therefore accommodate himself to a constantly increasing number of theories and formulas. Since the theories generally start from hypothetical assumptions, and since they contain true and false assertions, verified knowledge and pure suppositions often being intermingled in a manner difficult to tell them apart, the specialist had difficulty in forming a correct evaluation of the individual studies" (p. 1).

Report presenting equations, tables, and figures for use in the analysis of helium flow at supersonic and hypersonic speeds. Tables are provided for useful dimensionless ratios for continuous one-dimensional flow and normal-shock waves as functions of Mach number. The oblique-shock characteristics of wedges and cones in helium at various Mach numbers are also presented.

Report presenting a method by which the residual stress distribution in a disk can be determined with the aid of the obliquely mounted strain gage when the directions of the principal stresses are radial and tangential. The strain gages are mounted in such a way as to make them sensitive only to the tangential stresses in the disk. Results regarding cutting procedure, accuracy of the method, and an independent check of the method are required.

Report presenting a flight investigation of a large swept-wing bomber airplane in rough air at 5,000 feet to determine the effects of wing flexibility on wing bending and shear strains. Aeroelastic effects were found to be large, particularly at the outboard measuring stations. Results regarding the bending strains and shear strains are provided.

Note presenting a thermal system which could be used to determine whether the boundary layer on a wing in flight is turbulent or laminar. Tests were made using this system in the low-turbulence pressure tunnel.

Note presenting an investigation of hydrodynamic impact loads on chine-immersed bodies of heavy beam loading, which has been expanded to include transversely curved models in addition to models of prismatic shape. The paper presents the results from tests of a chine-immersed model with a circular-arc cross section with a radius of 1 beam. The data are presented in tables, and the coefficients of loads and motion are presented in figures as a function of trim and initial flightpath angles.

Note presenting testing of a V-bottom model with a dead-rise angle of 30 degrees and the forward half longitudinally curved upward on a radius of 10 beams in the impact basin as part of a program to study the effects of transverse and longitudinal curvature on impact loads of chine-immersed models. The data are presented and analyzed to determine the extent of bow immersion during the impacts.

Note presenting an analysis made to determine the effect of configuration parameters and valve area-time operating relations on the speed of response of the liquid flow and the suppressed suction head of the pump in a rocket motor. The configuration consisted of tank, pump, combustion chamber, valves, and lines, including a bypass line with a valve around the pump. Results regarding the effect of valve resistance-time history on pump suppression head and flow response time and effect of configuration parameters are provided.

A wind-tunnel investigation has been made to determine the characteristics of external-flow jet-augmented double slotted flaps which appear suitable for application to airplanes with pod-mounted engines. The investigation included tests of the rectangular wing with an aspect ratio of 6 over a momentum-coefficient range from 0 to 28. Lift coefficients larger than the jet reaction in the lift direction were obtained with the external-flow jet-augmented double slotted flaps.

Report presenting a compilation of most of the zero-lift drag obtained from free-flight measurements on fin-stabilized bodies of revolution. Results regarding friction drag, base pressure and base drag, pressures on a forward facing step, and fin pressure drag are provided.

A practical method for solving plastic deformation problems in the elastic-plastic range is presented. The method is one of successive approximations and is illustrated by four examples which include a flat plate with temperature distribution across the width, a thin shell with axial temperature distribution, a solid cylinder with radial temperature distribution, and a rotating disk with radial temperature distribution.