This report describes a frost-point hygrometer suitable for measuring the water-vapour content of the air in supersonic wind tunnels at any stagnation pressure within their present range of operatiom It uses CO2 as a coolant ...
This paper presents an account of the whole of the work which has been done at the National Gas Turbine Establishment on the problem of air cooling gas-turbine combustion systems. Each of the different methods, of wall ...
In studying anct comparing various theories for the determination of the distribution of loading on wings, Garner has given values for the lift slope of several families of swept-back and delta wings deduced from several ...
The effects of shock-induced separation of turbulent boundary layers on two-dimensional aerofoils are introduced by considering the development of the surface-pressure distribution and flow pattern as the free-stream speed ...
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 ...
Part 1. The subject of the present note is the increase of the drag of an aerofoil which arises from the presence of limited shock waves when the forward speed lies between the so-called shock stalling speed and the velocity ...
Technical Staffs of de Havilland Propellers; Limited; Rotol; Limited.(1957)
Tests were conducted on two similar full-scale propellers in tim 24-ft Wind Tunnel at the Royal Aircraft Establishment by representatives of Rotol, Ltd. and de Havilland Propellers, Ltd. to measure the aerodynamic ...
This report describes, the design and construction of an electronic simulator for flutter investigations in any number of degrees of freedom not exceeding six. Tile principles of the simulation are discussed, and the actual ...
This report gives the results of cascade tests on blades of aspect ratio varying from 3.0 to 1.5, with particular reference to stalling flutter. It is concluded that the influence of aspect ratio on stalling flutter cannot ...
The equations of motion of the helicopter are presented and reduced to non-dimensional form. The force and moment derivatives for the single-rotor helicopter (including tailplane if required) are given as simple formulae ...
The present investigation was designed primarily to check the validity of a simple method which had been suggested for designing an aerofoil section on which, for a limited range of incidence, turbulent boundary-layer ...
A method is developed for designing the centre portion of a cambered and twisted swept-back wing to have the same chordwise load distribution at all spanwise stations. For this purpose the downwash field induced by a doublet ...
The essential features of a practical method of determining gas turbine performance are that it shall be suitable for accurate routine calculation, and that it is capable of simple modification in order to deal with a range ...
Tests have been made on a series of high length/beam ratio seaplane hulls with high beam loadings. The effects of varying the hull parameters, forebody warp, afterbody length and afterbody angle, together with the interaction ...
Griffith's proposal to achieve vertical take-off and landing at the usual attitude demands sea-level thrust considerably greater than the weight and continuously rotatable through 90 deg. A study of the steady states of ...
A series of tests Was undertaken on a simple, two-dimensional, variable Mach-number effuser, or nozzle, designed for the range of supersonic flows up to Mach number 3.0. The performance of the nozzle was assessed from the ...
Flight measurements have been made of the phugoid motion of the Hoverfly Mk. I helicopter, following an arbitrary longitudinal displacement of the control, the latter being returned to its initial position and held fixed. ...
Flow photographs and detailed pressure distributions for a 4 per cent thick circular-arc biconvex aerofoil at high subsonic speeds and high incidences have been analysed and the divergence boundary (defining the onset of ...
S. Neumark; J. Collingbourne; H. H. B. M. Thomas(1954)
Following flight experience of a particular aircraft, the effect of including a bob-weight and feel spring in the circuit of a power-operated longitudinal control on the dynamic stability of the aircraft is investigated. ...
Direct-shadow and schlieren photographs and pressure distributions of the flow past a two-dimensional 4 per cent thick biconvex aerofoil for a limited range of incidences at Mach numbers of 1.40 and 1.63 are presented. ...