The area-rule, moment of area-rule and transfer-rule methods for estimating the wave drag Of wing-body combinations are discussed. It is pointed out that the moment of area rule and the transfer rule are different forms ...
Methods recently developed for estimating distributions and intensities of sonic bangs are described. They are applied to several interesting flight manoeuvres and the results discussed in detail. The effect on sonic-bang ...
There is a great need for more accurate data on the aerodynamic derivatives of swept-back wings in order to solve problems of stability, control and flutter. As one step in the search for these data the estimation of the ...
PART I. Measurement of Tensile Strength. An experimental comparison has been made between five types of tensile tests including novel types designed to enable axial loading conditions to be approached more readily than is ...
The two-dimensional surface giving minimum pressure drag for given lift coefficient in supersonic flow is considered. The method adopted is a small perturbation of a plane surface; the pressure is expressed as a power ...
Axially-symmetrical, supersonic, fully-expanded jets of diameter about 0.75 in. and of Mach number 1.40 issuing into an atmosphere at rest were investigated by schlieren and shadow photography and by pressure traversing. ...
A description is given of the various techniques evolved in recent years to provide model data as a basis for predicting the full-scale behaviour of a seaplane. The seaplane tank and associated equipment is described in ...
For some time now, it has been recommended that mechanical assistance be incorporated in jettisonable cockpit-hood designs. Some firms have preferred designs in which the hood is constrained to rotate through a definite ...
Model tests have been made to investigate the functioning of an air interchange system for removing from a return-circuit wind tunnel a high proportion of the exhaust products from propulsive units under test. The tests ...
In twin air-intake systems (i.e., a pair of intakes discharging into a common duct or chamber) in which the losses are affected by external boundary layers; asymmetry of flow between the two ducts occurs below a certain ...
Systematic wind-tunnel tests have been made to investigate the effects of slipstream on the flow near the tailplane of a typical civil transport with four contra-rotating propellers. Tailplane height has been varied for ...
Momentum considerations are used to derive relationships between the lifting efficieny of a wing having an attached shock system and properties of the flow field around it. Optimum two-dimensional flow fields are derived ...
A draft of this theory was completed by H. Multhopp during 1950, before he left the Ministry of Supply. It has been edited by the writer, who is responsible for the calculated examples. This report is an extension of ...
Descriptions are given of equipment devised for the generation of fairly large quantities of an optically dense white smoke and special attention has been paid to the need for delivering this through long ducts or against ...
This report catalogues aerofoils which have been designed (or substantially modified) at the N.P.L., and which have been the subject of theoretical investigations, aircraft design studies or wind-tunnel tests. A full ...
The Report describes an analyser which was developed for finding the power spectra of waveforms derived from vibrating axial compressor blades due to random excitation. The bandwidth of the instrument goes down to about ...
Resonance tests on a model delta wing are described. Consideration is given to the effect of inertia distribution on the first three normal symmetric modes of vibration. The mean centre of gravity position, fuselage pitching ...
It is shown that, in a plane sheet under any particular loading system, certain reinforced holes may be made which do not alter the stress distribution in the main body of the sheet. These reinforced holes (hereafter called ...
A new law of similarity is given, valid for slender profiles in mixed transonic flow with negligible viscosity, according to which the cube of the Prandtl factor of any critical Mach number is proportional to the thickness ...