Some Recent Contributions to the Study of Transition and Turbulent Boundary Layers (open access)

Some Recent Contributions to the Study of Transition and Turbulent Boundary Layers

Report presenting a paper in two parts about transition and turbulent boundary layers. The first part reviews the current problem of the instability of laminar boundary layers. The second part reviews the current state of knowledge of the mechanics of turbulent boundary layers and of the methods now being used for fundamental studies of the turbulent fluctuations in turbulent boundary layers.
Date: April 1947
Creator: Dryden, Hugh L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of B. M. W. 185-horsepower airplane engine (open access)

Performance of B. M. W. 185-horsepower airplane engine

Report discusses the results of testing on a B.M.W. engine in an altitude chamber where temperature and pressure can be controlled to simulate flight at various altitudes. Results for various engine speeds, altitudes, and propeller speeds are provided.
Date: April 13, 1922
Creator: Sparrow, Stanwood Willston
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intercooler cooling-air weight flow and pressure drop for minimum drag loss (open access)

Intercooler cooling-air weight flow and pressure drop for minimum drag loss

Report presenting an analysis of the power losses in airplane flight of cross-flow plate and tubular intercoolers to determine the cooling-air weight flow and pressure drop that give minimum total power loss for any given cooling effectiveness. The investigation covers a range of flight conditions of altitude, airspeed, lift-drag ratio, supercharger-pressure ratio, and adiabatic efficiency.
Date: April 1944
Creator: Reuter, J. George & Valerino, Michael F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lioré-Olivier LeO 194 Seaplane (open access)

Lioré-Olivier LeO 194 Seaplane

Report presenting a description of the Lioré-Olivier LeO 194 seaplane and a particular series of flights made over several months. Its fuselage is made entirely of wood. It has 6 gasoline tanks each with a capacity of 255 liters. It is a single engine biplane with wings mounted above the body of the seaplane.
Date: April 1927
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Flight Tests of NACA C and D Cowlings on the XP-42 Airplane (open access)

Review of Flight Tests of NACA C and D Cowlings on the XP-42 Airplane

Report presenting the results of flight tests of the performance and cooling characteristics of three NACA D cowlings and of a conventional NACA C cowling on the XP-42 airplane. The D cowling is, generally, characterized by the use of an annular inlet and diffuser section for the engine-cooling air. An increase in maximum speed was noted in the XP-42 airplane due to the change from a C cowling to a D cowling.
Date: April 1943
Creator: Johnston, J. Ford
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Transformation of Heat in an Engine (open access)

The Transformation of Heat in an Engine

This report presents a thermodynamic basis for rating heat engines. The production of work by a heat engine rests on the operation of supplying heat, under favorable conditions, to a working fluid and then taking it away.
Date: April 1929
Creator: Neumann, Kurt
System: The UNT Digital Library
The C.A.M.S. 60 Seaplane (French): A Twin-Engine Bombing and Torpedo Monoplane (open access)

The C.A.M.S. 60 Seaplane (French): A Twin-Engine Bombing and Torpedo Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the C.A.M.S. 60, which is a twin-engine monoplane with a medium-thickness wing and two floats. Details of the wings, engines, fuselages, floor, rear cabin, floats, and flying qualities are provided.
Date: April 1931
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The S.A.B.C.A. "S.XI" Commercial Airplane (Belgian): A High-Wing Semicantilever Monoplane (open access)

The S.A.B.C.A. "S.XI" Commercial Airplane (Belgian): A High-Wing Semicantilever Monoplane

Circular describing the S.A.B.C.A. S.XI commercial airplane, which is a high-wing semicantilever monoplane. Details of the history of its creation, its design, components, engines, fuel tanks, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1932
Creator: Frachet, André
System: The UNT Digital Library
D.H. 86 "Express Air Liner" (British): A Four-Engine Biplane (open access)

D.H. 86 "Express Air Liner" (British): A Four-Engine Biplane

Circular describing the De Havilland Express Air Liner, which is a four-engine two-bay biplane of clean and well-streamlined form. Details of the cabin, controls, fuselage, tail, wings, engines, cockpit, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1934
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The S.P.C.A. 40 T Commercial Airplane (French): An All-Metal Cantilever Monoplane (open access)

The S.P.C.A. 40 T Commercial Airplane (French): An All-Metal Cantilever Monoplane

Circular describing the S.P.C.A. 40 T, which is a commercial all-metal cantilever airplane that was guided by the two essential requirements of economy and safety in its design. Details of the design, power, test results, fuel tanks, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1931
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Farman "F.300" Commercial Airplane (French): A High-Wing Semicantilever Monoplane (open access)

The Farman "F.300" Commercial Airplane (French): A High-Wing Semicantilever Monoplane

Circular describing the Farman F.300 airplane, which is a high-wing semicantilever monoplane. Details of the wings, engine, equipment, safety, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Westland Iv Commercial Monoplane (British): Three "Cirrus III" Engine (open access)

The Westland Iv Commercial Monoplane (British): Three "Cirrus III" Engine

Circular presenting a description of the Westland IV, which is a high-wing monoplane with strut bracing, two outboard engines, a fairly large fuselage that provides comfortable cabin accommodation, and wide-track landing gear. Details of the design, flight characteristics, blueprints, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Boulton and Paul P.64 Mail-Carrier: A Two-Engine All-Metal Biplane (open access)

The Boulton and Paul P.64 Mail-Carrier: A Two-Engine All-Metal Biplane

Circular presenting a description of the Boulton and Paul P.64 high-performance mail-carrier. It is a two-engine tractor biplane that has been designed to give the specified normal speed with each engine throttled down to approximately half its output. Details of the landing gear, structural features, pilots' compartment, accommodation for mails, controls, power plant, and some flying qualities are provided.
Date: April 1933
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
NACA Investigation of a Jet-Propulsion System Applicable to Flight (open access)

NACA Investigation of a Jet-Propulsion System Applicable to Flight

"Following a brief history of the NACA investigation of jet-propulsion, a discussion is given of the general investigation and analyses leading to the construction of the jet-propulsion ground-test mock-up. The results of burning experiments and of test measurements designed to allow quantitative flight-performance predictions of the system are presented and correlated with calculations. These calculations are then used to determine the performance of the system on the ground and in the air at various speeds and altitudes under various burning conditions. The application of the system to an experimental airplane is described and some performance predictions for this airplane are made" (p. 1).
Date: April 1944
Creator: Brown, Clinton E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The "Potez 39" Observation Airplane (French): An All-Metal High-Wing Two-Seat Monoplane (open access)

The "Potez 39" Observation Airplane (French): An All-Metal High-Wing Two-Seat Monoplane

Circular describing the Potez 39, which is an all-metal high-wing two-seat observation monoplane. Details regarding the design, construction, components, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Blackburn "Bluebird" Mark IV (British): All-Metal Biplane (open access)

The Blackburn "Bluebird" Mark IV (British): All-Metal Biplane

Circular presenting a description of the Blackburn Bluebird Mark IV, which is an all-metal airplane. Details are provided regarding constructional features, the cockpit, the gasoline system, and the flight characteristics.
Date: April 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wind-Tunnel Procedure for Determination of Critical Stability and Control Characteristics of Airplanes (open access)

Wind-Tunnel Procedure for Determination of Critical Stability and Control Characteristics of Airplanes

"This report outlines the flight conditions that are usually critical in determining the design of components of an airplane which affect its stability and control characteristics. The wind-tunnel tests necessary to determine the pertinent data for these conditions are indicated, and the methods of computation used to translate these data into characteristics which define the flying qualities of the airplane are illustrated" (p. 1).
Date: April 1944
Creator: Goett, Harry J.; Jackson, Roy P. & Belsley, Steven E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nitrided-steel piston rings for engines of high specific power (open access)

Nitrided-steel piston rings for engines of high specific power

Report presenting testing of several designs of nitrided-steel piston rings under variable conditions of output. Testing indicated the importance of good surface finish and conformity of the ring to the bore. Results regarding temperature tests, single-cylinder-engine tests, and multicylinder-engine tests are provided.
Date: April 1944
Creator: Collins, John H., Jr.; Bisson, Edmond E. & Schmiedlin, Ralph F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pander Light Biplane: A School Two-Seater With 45 HP Anzani Engine (open access)

The Pander Light Biplane: A School Two-Seater With 45 HP Anzani Engine

Report presenting a description of the Pander light biplane, including a description of the construction and flying characteristics are provided.
Date: April 1926
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laminar-boundary-layer oscillations and transition on a flat plate (open access)

Laminar-boundary-layer oscillations and transition on a flat plate

Report presenting an investigation of oscillations in the laminar boundary layer on a flat plate and their relation to transition to turbulent flow. The characteristics of boundary-layer oscillations were studied most successfully when the oscillations were artificially produced by a vibrating ribbon placed in the boundary layer near the surface. A review of theory regarding laminar-boundary-layer oscillations is provided.
Date: April 1943
Creator: Schubauer, G. B. & Skramstad, H. K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Caudron P.V. 200 Touring Airplane (French): An All-Metal Amphibian Monoplane (open access)

The Caudron P.V. 200 Touring Airplane (French): An All-Metal Amphibian Monoplane

Circular presenting a description of the Caudron P.V. 200 touring amphibian, which is a two-place cantilever monoplane with folding wings and dual controls. Details of the wing, fuselage, controls, landing gear, flying qualities, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1933
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mureaux 111 R.2 Military Airplane (French): A Long-Distance All-Metal Observation Monoplane (open access)

The Mureaux 111 R.2 Military Airplane (French): A Long-Distance All-Metal Observation Monoplane

Circular describing the Ateliers des Mureaux 111 R.2 military airplane, which is a long-distance all-metal observation monoplane. A description of the design and construction, characteristics, flying qualities, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1931
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Francois Villiers Marine Pursuit Airplane (open access)

The Francois Villiers Marine Pursuit Airplane

A traditional biplane design allows this craft to function with the speed and maneuverability necessary to perform as a pursuit aircraft while also being able to land on water. It featured retractable landing gear for water landings. It was powered with a 450 HP. Lorraine-Dietrich engine.
Date: April 1927
Creator: Serryer, J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of Nozzles for the Individual Cylinder Exhaust Jet Propulsion System (open access)

Design of Nozzles for the Individual Cylinder Exhaust Jet Propulsion System

Report presenting an examination of the design of exhaust-stack nozzles for individual cylinder exhaust-gas jet propulsion and the results of tests on the effect of nozzle area on jet thrust and engine power. A satisfactory method of correlatig the test data for various engine-operating conditions is developed.
Date: April 1941
Creator: Pinkel, Benjamin; Turner, L. Richard & Voss, Fred
System: The UNT Digital Library