Browsing Aeronautical Research Council Reports & Memoranda by Author "J. Picken"

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Notes on the progress of free-flight trials to measure heat transfer at Mach numbers up to 5

J. Picken; R. Harmer (1958)

A summary of the first ten flights made with a heat-transfer vehicle is given together with some of the salient features of the results relative to conical and hemispherical heads. The method of reducing the temperature ...
Wing parachutes for recovery from the spin. Part I - General design requirements. Part II - Wake Phenomena.

G. E. Pringle; T. V. Somerville; D. J. Harper; J. R. Mitchell; J. Picken; G. E. Pringle (1947)

Part I. The suggestion to use parachutes attached near the wing tips for recovery from bad spins is not news, but was considered -before tail parachutes were introduced. With the increasing interest in tailless types it ...

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