Browsing by Author "R. H. Plascott"

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Flight tests on Hurricane II, Z.3687 fitted with special wings of 'low-drag' design

R. H. Plascott; D. J. Higton; F. Smith; A. R. Bramwell (1946)

This report describes flight tests to investigate the proNe-drag characteristics of a 'low-drag' section wing built by Armstrong Whitworth, Ltd., using a new type of construction of their own design. During the first series ...
The measurement of the overall drag of an aircraft at High Mach Numbers

D. J. Higton; R. H. Plascott; D. A. Clarke (1949)

This report describes the technique which has been developed to measure the overall drag of an aircraft at high Mach numbers in both level flight and dives. It shows how improvements have been made both in flight and tunnel ...
Measurements of the paths of the vortex cores shed from the wings of a typical guided-missile model at M = 1.57

R. H. Plascott (1954)

The paths of the cores of the vortex sheets shed from the wings of a typical guided-missile model, having cruciform rectangular wings mounted on a long cone-cylinder body, have been traced in their movement downstream over ...

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