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Glues Used in Airplane Parts

Description: This report was prepared for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and presents the results of investigations conducted by the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Forest Service on the manufacture, preparation, application, testing and physical properties of the different types of glues used in wood airplane parts.
Date: 1920
Creator: Allen, S. W. & Truax, T. R.
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The Effect of Kiln Drying on the Strength of Airplane Woods

Description: This report is a very complete treatise on the comparative strength of air and kiln dried wood. The series of tests includes 26 species of wood, approximately 100 kiln runs, and over 10,000 mechanical tests.
Date: 1920
Creator: Wilson, T. R. C.
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A Study of Airplane Ranges and Useful Loads

Description: This report is an analysis of the maximum flight radii of typical large airplanes and a discussion of the way in which the possible length of flight is affected by the change of weight by consumption of fuel during the flight.
Date: 1920
Creator: Coffin, J. G.
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Preliminary Report on Free Flight Tests

Description: Results are presented for a series of tests made by the Advisory Committee's staff at Langley Field during the summer of 1919 with the objectives of determining the characteristics of airplanes in flight and the extent to which the actual characteristics differ from those predicted from tests on models in the wind tunnel, and of studying the balance of the machines and the forces which must be applied to the controls in order to maintain longitudinal equilibrium.
Date: 1920
Creator: Warner, E. P. & Norton, F. H.
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Slip-Stream Corrections in Performance Computation

Description: This report is an analysis of experiments performed by Eiffel on the air velocity in slip stream of a propeller, and also includes a theoretical discussion of the magnitude of the velocity in different propellers.
Date: 1920
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
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Wind Tunnel Balances

Description: Report embodies a description of the balance designed and constructed for the use of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, and also deals with the theory of sensitivity of balances and with the errors to which wind tunnel balances of various types are subject.
Date: 1920
Creator: Warner, Edward P. & Norton, F. H.
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Construction of Models for Tests in Wind Tunnels

Description: Report deals with the methods of constructing aerofoils and all other parts of a model airplane, including discussion of the degree of accuracy.
Date: 1920
Creator: Norton, F. H.
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Analyses of Air from Burning Buildings

Description: This report provides results of analyses and pertinent fata regarding eleven samples taken from the composition of the air in burning buildings.
Date: November 1920
Creator: Katz, S. H.
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