Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Issues 159-185U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Aeronautics Includes the Committee's Technical reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37. |
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22 Angle aerodynamic aileron aircraft airfoils airplane airship airspeed altitude aneroid Angle of Attack Army Air Service Attack in Degrees axis beam blade Bureau of Aeronautics Bureau of Standards cent Center of Pressure Chord from leading Chord N.A.C.A. Committee for Aeronautics compression computed constant cylinder damping deflection density determined diameter diaphragm Drag Coefficient Absolute effect efficiency engine equation Figure formula ft./sec fuel Göttingen horsepower hysteresis inches instruments investigation JN4h Langley Field Langley Memorial Aeronautical leading Edge Lift Coefficient Absolute Lift to Drag load longitudinal maximum measured Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory method modulus modulus of elasticity moment of inertia Name of section National Advisory Committee obstruction obtained oscillation Percent of Chord propeller Ratio of Lift scale shear slip curve slipstream span spar spark spark gap speed sphere stress Table temperature thrust torque Translated wind tunnel Wind velocity wing
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Page 355 - The report has been divided into three parts ; the first part deals with the...
Page 2 - Standards, together with not more than five additional persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering -or its allied sciences...
Page 1 - Created by act of Congress approved March 3, 1915, for the supervision and direction of the scientific study of the problems of flight (US Code, Title 50, Sec.
Page 1 - States, provided that such individual, firm, association or corporation defray the actual cost involved. Third. The committee institutes research, investigation, and study of problems which, in the judgment of its members or of the members of its various subcommittees, are needful and timely for the advance of the science and art of aeronautics in its various branches.
Page 1 - Fifth. The information thus gathered is brought to the attention of the various subcommittees for consideration in connection with the preparation of programs for research and experimental work in this country. This information is also made available promptly to the military and naval air organizations and other branches of the Government...
Page 345 - This report presents the results of an investigation carried on at the Bureau of Standards at the request of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...
Page 1 - Sixth: The committee holds itself at the service of the President, the Congress, and the executive departments of the Government for the consideration of special problems which may be referred to it.
Page 376 - These fibers when all stressed alike offer little support one to the other, but when the stress is nonuniform as in a bent beam the fibers nearer the neutral axis being less stressed will not buckle, and will therefore lend lateral support to the extreme fibers causing them to take a higher load.
Page 1 - Under the law the committee holds itself at the service of any department or agency of the Government interested in aeronautics, for the furnishing of information or assistance in regard to scientific or technical matters relating to aeronautics, and in particular for the investigation and study of problems in this field with a view to their practical solution.