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The Aerade Reports Archive incorporates more than ten thousand, historically significant, digitised reports from: The Aeronautical Research Council (ARC) - the principal agency in Great Britain with a major output of reports on matters aeronautical, which existed from 1909-1979, and published reports until 1980 and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) - chartered in 1915 and operational from 1917-1958.

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  • Some experiments with fluidic devices in aviation kerosene 
    Taylor, A. F. (College of Aeronautics, )
    Comparatively little has been published on ‘heavy current’ fluidic devices yet their advantages suggest that they have a place in aircraft fluid systems. As a first brief step towards assessing their value to the aircraft ...
  • Calibration of the flow in the channel of the whirling arm 
    Ashill, P. R.; Osbourn, E. W. (College of Aeronautics, )
    The calibration of the flow in the channel of the Whirling Arm is described and results for pitch yaw and wind speed are presented. These indicate that the flow is quite acceptable for the type of model tests envisaged.
  • Development of a 3-component strain-gauge for use on the whirling arm 
    Holloway, W. G.; Kumar, P. E.; Osbourn, W. (College of Aeronautics, )
    This note covers the development of two strain-gauge balances for use on the Whirling Arm Facility of the College. The main requirements for this balance were:- (a) to withstand 700 lbs of sideload without it interfering ...
  • 'A design method for the dilution zones of gas turbine combustion chambers' 
    Lefebvre, Arthur Henry; Norster, E. R. (College of Aeronautics, )
    Introduction and Summary Perhaps the most important and, at the same time, most difficult Problem in the design and development of gas turbine combustion chambers, is that of achieving a satisfactory and consistent ...
  • On the flow along swept leading edges 
    Gaster, M. (College of Aeronautics, )
    Flight tests on the Handley Page suction wing showed that turbulence, generated at the wing root, can propagate along the leading edge and cause the whole flow to be turbulent. The flow on the attachment line of a swept ...

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