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Fairey "Battle" Medium Bomber Airplane (British): An All-Metal Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane (open access)

Fairey "Battle" Medium Bomber Airplane (British): An All-Metal Low-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the Fairey "Battle", which is the first stressed-skin aircraft they have constructed and is also an all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane. Details of the fuselage, wings, skin, design, flaps, landing gear, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: November 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Production of Kale. (open access)

Production of Kale.

Describes the varieties of kale and best practices for growing and marketing it.
Date: November 1937
Creator: Thompson, Ross C. (Ross Calvin), 1896-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of feeds and saw speeds on cotton turn-out and quality. (open access)

Effects of feeds and saw speeds on cotton turn-out and quality.

Leaflet discussing the effect of seed role density and the speed of the ginning process on cotton quality. Argues for quality rather than quantity in cotton ginning.
Date: November 1937
Creator: Bennett, Charles A. (Charles Abel), b. 1889 & Gerdes, Francis L. (Francis Leo), 1907-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maximum Forces Applied by Pilots to Wheel-Type Controls (open access)

Maximum Forces Applied by Pilots to Wheel-Type Controls

"Measurements were made of the maximum push, pull, and tangential forces that could be applied to airplane wheel-type controls for a wide range of fore-and-aft positions of the wheel. The measurements were conducted with several sizes of wheels and several heights of the center of the wheel above the seat. Various one and two-hand grips with pilots both secure and free were studied for each of the two pilots used in the investigation" (p. 1).
Date: November 1937
Creator: McAvoy, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance Characteristics of Venturi Tubes Used in Aircraft for Operating Air-Driven Gyroscopic Instruments (open access)

Performance Characteristics of Venturi Tubes Used in Aircraft for Operating Air-Driven Gyroscopic Instruments

"Wind tunnel and flight tests were made to determine the performance characteristics of two designs of commercially available venturi tubes used in airplanes to operate air-driven gyroscopic instruments. Data obtained at sea level may be used to make approximate predictions of performance at higher altitudes. There is some indication that this may also be done for single venturi tubes" (p. 1).
Date: November 1937
Creator: Sontag, Harcourt & Johnson, Daniel P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pressure drop across finned cylinders enclosed in a jacket (open access)

Pressure drop across finned cylinders enclosed in a jacket

The pressure drop across finned cylinders in a jacket for a range of air speeds from approximately 13 to 230 miles per hour has been investigated. Tests were made to determine the effect on the pressure drop of changes in fin space, fin width, jacket entrance and exit areas, skirt-approach radius, and the use of fillets and a separator plate at the rear of the cylinder. The pressure drop across the cylinder increased as the fin space decreased, the increase being very rapid at fin spaces smaller than approximately 0.20 inch. Fin width had little effect on the pressure drop for the range of widths tested. The pressure drop across the cylinder was nearly halved by increasing the skirt-approach radius from 3/4 inch to 1-1/4 inches, but fillets and a separator plate at the rear of the cylinder had little effect on the pressure drop. The pressure drop across a cylinder with tapered fins was greater than that for a cylinder having rectangular fins with the same effective fin spacing.
Date: November 1937
Creator: Rollin, Vern G. & Ellerbrock, Herman H., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flight tests of an airplane showing dependence of the maximum lift coefficient on the test conditions (open access)

Flight tests of an airplane showing dependence of the maximum lift coefficient on the test conditions

"Data are presented to show the extent to which the maximum lift coefficient and consequently the minimum speed of an airplane, determined by flight tests, may vary with test conditions. The data show that cl-max may vary as much as 14 percent, depending on the altitude and wing loading at which the tests were made, the position or motion of the propeller, and the rate at which the angle of attack is changing when the maximum lift coefficient is obtained. The variation of the maximum lift coefficient with these factors, which are under the control of the test engineer, shows the need of standardizing the test procedure. A further variation is shown with wing conditions as affected by weathering and vibration, factors that cannot be completely controlled" (p. 1).
Date: November 1937
Creator: Soulé, H. A. & Hootman, James A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compression-ignition engine performance at altitudes and at various air pressures and temperatures (open access)

Compression-ignition engine performance at altitudes and at various air pressures and temperatures

From Summary: "Engine test results are presented for simulated altitude conditions. A displaced-piston combustion chamber on a 5- by 7-inch single cylinder compression-ignition engine operating at 2,000 r.p.m. was used. Inlet air temperature equivalent to standard altitudes up to 14,000 feet were obtained. Comparison between performance at altitude of the unsupercharged compression-ignition engine compared favorably with the carburetor engine."
Date: November 1937
Creator: Moore, Charles S. & Collins, John H., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tapered Wings, Tip Stalling, and Preliminary Results From Tests of the Stall-Control Flap (open access)

Tapered Wings, Tip Stalling, and Preliminary Results From Tests of the Stall-Control Flap

Report presenting a consideration of the general problem of stalling as affecting the safety of airplanes. The increased difficulties associated with modern efficient wings, particularly highly tapered wings and high-life devices, are discussed and means are considered for avoiding these difficulties.
Date: November 1937
Creator: Jacobs, Eastman N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Universal Logarithmic Law of Velocity Distribution as Applied to the Investigation of Boundary Layer and Drag of Streamline Bodies at Large Reynolds Number (open access)

Universal Logarithmic Law of Velocity Distribution as Applied to the Investigation of Boundary Layer and Drag of Streamline Bodies at Large Reynolds Number

In the present paper we shall consider a figure of revolution, so that the formulas applicable to the more simple cases as, for example, a wing or flat plate will follow from our equations as corollaries. For checking the results of our theory, we made use of the data derived from the tests of Freeman on a 1/40-scale model of the airship "Akron" conducted in the large NACA wind tunnel. In the first part we shall derive the fundamental equation for a body of revolution according to the Karman theory in its original form, and in the second part we shall give all the comparisons of the results of tests with the modified theory.
Date: November 1937
Creator: Gurjienko, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthetic Resins in Aircraft Construction - Their Composition, Properties, Present State of Development and Application to Light Structures (open access)

Synthetic Resins in Aircraft Construction - Their Composition, Properties, Present State of Development and Application to Light Structures

This report gives a brief review of the properties that have been attained with the synthetic materials with which we are at present familiar. Results of investigations are presented as well as possibilities for construction applications. Endurance strength and bonding tests are also presented.
Date: November 1937
Creator: Riechers, K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pressure Distribution Over Airfoils With Fowler Flaps (open access)

Pressure Distribution Over Airfoils With Fowler Flaps

Report presents the results of tests made of a Clark y airfoil with a Clark y Fowler flap and of an NACA 23012 airfoil with NACA Fowler flaps. Some of the tests were made in the 7 by 10-foot wind tunnel and others in the 5-foot vertical wind tunnel. The pressures were measured on the upper and lower surfaces at one chord section both on the main airfoils and on the flaps for several angles of attack with the flaps located at the maximum-lift settings.
Date: November 24, 1937
Creator: Wenzinger, Carl J. & Anderson, Walter B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compressible Flow About Symmetrical Joukowski Profiles (open access)

Compressible Flow About Symmetrical Joukowski Profiles

"The method of Poggi is employed for the determination of the effects of compressibility upon the flow past an obstacle. A general expression for the velocity increment due to compressibility is obtained. The general result holds whatever the shape of the obstacle; but, in order to obtain the complete solution, it is necessary to know a certain Fourier expansion of the square of the velocity of flow past the obstacle. An application is made to the case flow of a symmetrical Joukowski profile with a sharp trailing edge, fixed in a stream of an arbitrary angle of attack and with the circulation determined by the Kutta condition" (p. 197).
Date: November 19, 1937
Creator: Kaplan, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A discussion of certain problems connected with the design of hulls of flying boats and the use of general test data (open access)

A discussion of certain problems connected with the design of hulls of flying boats and the use of general test data

Report presents the results of a survey of problems encountered in applying general test data to the design of flying-boat hulls. It is shown how basic design features may be readily determined from special plots of test data. A study of the effect of the size of a flying boat on the probable limits to be covered by the general test data is included and recommendations for special tests and new methods of presenting test data for direct use in design are given.
Date: November 1937
Creator: Diehl, Walter S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The experimental and calculated characteristics of 22 tapered wings (open access)

The experimental and calculated characteristics of 22 tapered wings

From Summary: "The experimental and calculated aerodynamic characteristics of 22 tapered wings are compared, using tests made in the variable-density wind tunnel. The wings had aspect ratios from 6 to 12 and taper ratios from 1:6:1 and 5:1. The compared characteristics are the pitching moment, the aerodynamic-center position, the lift-curve slope, the maximum lift coefficient, and the curves of drag. The method of obtaining the calculated values is based on the use of wing theory and experimentally determined airfoil section data. In general, the experimental and calculated characteristics are in sufficiently good agreement that the method may be applied to many problems of airplane design."
Date: November 17, 1937
Creator: Anderson, Raymond F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Glasscock County, Texas: Records of wells, drillers' logs, and water analyses, and map showing location of wells (open access)

Glasscock County, Texas: Records of wells, drillers' logs, and water analyses, and map showing location of wells

Data complied regarding wells and other water resources, including water quality analysis, measurements, and other relevant information.
Date: November 22, 1937
Creator: United States. Work Projects Administration.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History