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Baynes Bee Light Airplane (British): A Two-Seat High-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Baynes Bee, which is a light two-seat high-wing monoplane. Details of its unique qualities, design, components, flying qualities, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: June 1937
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Nieuport-Delage 590 Military Airplane (French): A Two-Place High-Wing Cantilever Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Nieuport-Delage 590 three-engine colonial cantilever monoplane, which meets the requirements of the program established by the French Government. Information is provided regarding the design, construction, and instruments are provided.
Date: November 1932
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The Bleriot 110 Airplane (French): A Long-Distance High-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Bleriot 110 which is a long-distance airplane mainly distinguished by its fineness and lightness. Details of the fuselage, shape, wing, and power plant are provided.
Date: March 1931
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Breguet 390 T Commercial Airplane (French): A Ten-Seat All-Steel Sesquiplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Breguet 390 T, which is a three-engine all-metal transport sesquiplane with the same structural principles as the Breguet military airplane. This aircraft design replaces a girder fuselage with an orthodox rectangular fuselage with accommodations for ten passengers and baggage. Details of the design, components, flying qualities, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: August 1931
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The Dewoitine D.332 Commercial Airplane (French): A Three-Engine All-Metal Low-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Dewoitine D.332, which is a commercial three-engine all-metal low-wing monoplane form France. Details of the construction history, wing, fuselage, power plant, landing gear, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: December 1933
Creator: Victor, Maurice
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The Boulton and Paul P.64 Mail-Carrier: A Two-Engine All-Metal Biplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Boulton and Paul P.64 high-performance mail-carrier. It is a two-engine tractor biplane that has been designed to give the specified normal speed with each engine throttled down to approximately half its output. Details of the landing gear, structural features, pilots' compartment, accommodation for mails, controls, power plant, and some flying qualities are provided.
Date: April 1933
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The Avia 51 Commercial Airplane (Czechoslovakian): A Cantilever High-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Avia 51 commercial airplane, which is a Czechoslovakian cantilever high-wing monoplane with a fairly orthodox design. Details of the performance, construction, wing, ailerons, fuselage, landing gear, engines, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: February 1934
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The Avro 631 Training Airplane (British): A Two-Seat Light Biplane

Description: Circular describing the Avro 631 training airplane, which is a British two-seat light biplane that is meant to be affordable and small. Details regarding the wings, fuselage, tail unit, landing gear, power plant, accommodation, characteristics, performance, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1932
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Further Measurements of Normal Accelerations on Racing Airplanes

Description: This report details the acceleration data collected from racing airplanes during actual races. The data was collected in order to make recommendations regarding the structural safety of racing airplanes and the methods of operating racing airplanes that reduces the probability of subjecting them to extreme air loads. The records do not lead to any conclusions regarding maximum air loads.
Date: February 1936
Creator: Kirschbaum, H. W. & Scudder, N. F.
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The Comper C(La)7 "Swift" Airplane (English): A High-Wing Single-Seat Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Comper C(La)7 Swift airplane, which is a high-wing single-seat monoplane with performance equal to that of a modern two-seat light airplane. Details of the view, aerodynamic design, wing, landing gear, cockpit, fuel tanks, engine, characteristics, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: February 1930
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The Short "Scylla" Commercial Airplane (British): An All-Metal Biplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Short Scylla, which is a 39-passenger landplane with four Bristol Jupiter XF BM engines. A description of the characteristics, blueprints, and photographs of the aircraft are provided.
Date: May 1934
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Pressure drop in tank and float vent tubes on diving airplanes

Description: Report presenting an experiment regarding tank and float venting conditions that exist on diving airplanes undergoing rapid changes in altitude. The results indicated that large pressure differences build up between the outside and inside of tanks and floats on diving airplanes unless the correct size of venting tube is used.
Date: January 1939
Creator: Waldron, C. D.
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The Mauboussin M 11 Touring Airplane (French): A Two-Place High-Wing Monoplane

Description: Circular describing the Mauboussin M 11 touring airplane, which is a two-place high-wing monoplane that is an enlargement of the M 10. Details of the wing, ailerons, fuselage, cockpit, fuel tanks, landing gear, tail, characteristics, performances, drawings, and photographs are provided.
Date: May 1931
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Boulton Paul P.71a Commercial Airplane (British): A Two-Engine Biplane

Description: Circular presenting a description of the Boulton Paul P.71A, which is a new type of two-engine biplane. Details of the design, fuel tanks, materials, fuselage, passenger seating, tail, and flying qualities are provided.
Date: March 1935
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