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 ...
The suggestion that the sonic bang may be alleviated by electrostatic means is examined and several objections to the idea are put forward. At the same time, some theoretical aspects of supersonic electrogasdynamics are ...
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 ...