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Twenty-fifth annual report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1939. Including technical reports Nos. 645 to 680. [electronic resource]

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Corporate Authors:	United States. Congress. Senate, United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Other Authors:	Abbott, Ira H. A., Aitchison, C.S. (Clyde Stanley), 1893-1991, Anderson, Raymond F., Bicknell, Joseph, Biermann, Arnold E., Biermann, David, Brevoort, Maurice John, 1900-, Bullivant, W. Kenneth, Caplan, Karl, Derring, Eldridge H., Ellerbrock, Herman H., Gauvain, William E., Goett, Harry J., Greenberg, Harry, Harris, Thomas A., Hartman, Edwin Phelps, 1905-, Holt, M. (Marshall), Jacobs, Eastman N. (Eastman Nixon), 1902-1987, Johnson, Daniel Palmer, Joyner, Upshur T., Katzoff, S. (Samuel), 1909-, Kies, J.A, Lee, Dana W., Lindsey, W. F., Littell, Robert E., McAdam, D. J. (Dunlap Jamison), 1843-, McHugh, James G., Mebs, R. W. (Russell William), 1906-, Mutchler, Willard, Niehouse, A. I. (Anshal I.), Osgood, William R., Pearson, Henry A. (Henry Adolph), 1906-, Pinkel, Benjamin, 1909-, Quick, G. Willard (George Willard), 1892-, Reeder, John P., Rockefeller, W. C., Rothrock, A. M. (Addison May), 1903-1971, Schey, Oscar W., Schubauer, Galen B. (Galen Brandt), 1904-, Seidman, Oscar, Sherman, Albert, Silverstein, Abe, Spencer, Robert C. (Robert Champlin), 1926-, Stack, John, 1906-1972, Stickle, George W., Tuckerman, L. B. (Louis Bryant), 1879-1962, Wenzinger, Carl J. (Carl Joseph), 1903-1988
Format:	Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC, 1940.
Series:	United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 10471. Senate document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 76th Congress, no. 138.
Subjects:	United States. > National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Aeronautics. Aircraft construction. Aircraft engines. Aircraft parts. Airplanes. Strength of materials. Transportation research. Wind tunnels. Annual Reports. Monographs.

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Item Description:	List of technical reports, p. III. Correction of temperatures of air-cooled engine cylinders for variation in engine and cooling conditions, by Oscar W. Schey, Benjamin Pinkel, and Herman H. Ellerbrock, Jr. [No. 645], p. 49. Appendix, p. 69. The compressibility burble and the effect of compressibility on pressures and forces acting on an airfoil, by John Stack, W.F. Lindsey, and Robert E. Littell [No. 646], p. 73. Tests of N.A.C.A. 0009, 0012, and 0018 airfoils in the full-scale tunnel, by Harry J. Goett and W. Kenneth Bullivant [No. 647], p. 97. Design charts for predicting downwash angles and wake characteristics behind plain and flapped wings, by Abe Silverstein and S. Katzoff [No. 648], p. 107. The "pack" method for compressive tests of thin specimens of materials used in thin-wall structures, by C.S. Aitchison and L.B. Tuckerman [No. 649], p. 133. The aerodynamic characteristics of six full-scale propellers having different airfoil sections, by David Biermann and Edwin P. Hartman [No. 650], p. 145. Downwash and wake behind plain and flapped airfoils, by Abe Silverstein, S. Katzoff, and W. Kenneth Bullivant [No. 651], p. 179. Air flow in the boundary layer of an elliptic cylinder, by G.B. Schubauer [No. 652], p. 207. A study of air flow in an engine cylinder, by Dana W. Lee [No. 653], p. 227. General airplane performance, by W.C. Rockefeller [No. 654], p. 241. The knocking characteristics of fuels in relation to maximum permissible performance of aircraft engines, by A.M. Rothrock and Arnold E. Biermann [No. 655], p. 267. The column strength of two extruded aluminum-alloy h-sections, by William R. Osgood and Marshall Holt [No. 656], p. 289. The influence of directed air flow on combustion in a spark-ignition engine, by A.M. Rothrock and R.C. Spencer [No. 657], p. 313. Tests of two full-scale propellers with different pitch distributions, at blade angles up to 60 degrees, by David Biermann and Edwin P. Hartman [No. 658], p. 327. Effect of service stresses on impact resistance, x-ray diffraction patterns and microstructure of 258 aluminum alloy, by J.A. Keyes and G.W. Quick [No. 659], p. 343. Experimental investigation of the momentum method for determining profile drag, by Harry J. Goett [No. 660], p. 643. Tests in the variable-density wind tunnel of the N.A.C.A. 23012 airfoil with plain and split flaps, by Ira H. Abbott and Harry Greenberg [No. 661], p. 373. Design of N.A.C.A. cowlings for radial air-cooled engines, by George W. Stickle [No. 662], p. 383. The effect of continuous weathering of light metal alloys used in aircraft, by Willard Mutchler [No. 663], p. 395. Wind-tunnel investigation of an N.A.C.A. 23102 airfoil with various arrangements of slotted flaps, by Carl J. Wenzinger, and Thomas A. Harris [No. 664], p. 423. Calculation of the aerodynamic characteristics of tapered wings with partial-span flaps, by Henry A. Pearson and Raymond F. Anderson [No. 665], p. 455. Aircraft rate-of-climb indicators, by Daniel P. Johnson [No. 666], p. 473. Determination of the profile drag of an airplane wing in flight at high Reynolds numbers, by Joseph Bicknell [No. 667], p. 483. Wind-tunnel investigation of N.A.C.A. 23012, 23021, 23030 airfoils with various sizes of split flap, by Carl J. Wenzinger and Thomas A. Harris [No. 668], p. 493. Airfoil section data obtained in the N.A.C.A. variable-density tunnel as affected by support interference and other corrections, by Eastman N. Jacobs and Ira H. Abbott [No. 669], p. 507. Tensile elastic properties of 18:8 chromium-nickel steel as affected by plastic deformation, by D.J. McAdam, Jr. and R.W. Mebs [No. 670], p. 539. A theoretical study of the moment on a body in a compressible fluid, by Karl Caplan [No. 671], p. 581. Freen-spinning wind-tunnel tests in a low-wing monoplane with systematic changes in wings and tails -- IV. Effect of center-of-gravity location, by Oscar Seidman and A.I. Niehouse [No. 672], p. 599. Experimental verification of the theory of oscillating airfoils, by Abe Silverstein and Upshur T. Joyner [No. 673], p. 619. Cooling on the front of an air-cooled engine cylinder in a conventional engine cowling, by M.J. Brevoort and U.T. Joyner [No. 674], p. 625. Effects of elevator nose shape, gap, balance, and tabs, on the aerodynamic characteristics of a horizontal tail surface, by Harry J. Goett and J.P. Reeder [No. 675], p. 639. Surface heat-transfer coefficients of finned cylinders, by Herman H. Ellerbrock, Jr. and Arnold E. Biermann [No. 676], p. 651. Wind-tunnel investigation of an N.A.C.A. 23021 airfoil with various arrangements of slotted flaps, by Carl J. Wenzinger and Thomas A. Harry [No. 677], p. 665. Interference with tail surface and wing and fuselage from tests of 17 combinations in the N.A.C.A. variable-density tunnel, by Albert Sherman [No. 678], p. 689. Wind-tunnel investigation of an N.A.C.A. 23012 airfoil with a slotted flap and three types of auxiliary flap, by Carl J. Wenzinger and William E. Gauvain [No. 679], p. 699. The effect of Nacelle-propeller diameter ratio on body interference and on propeller and cooling characteristics, by James G. McHugh and Eldridge H. Derring [No. 680], p. 727.
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