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An investigation was made to determine the aerodynamic characteristics of three planing-tail flying-boat hulls which differed only in the amount of step fairing. The hulls were derived by altering the step and afterbody of a conventional flying-boat hull having a transverse step.
An investigation was made to determine the reduction in drag that could be obtained for a conventional-type flying-boat hull by means of aerodynamic refinements. For comparisons, tests were made on a streamline body simulating the fuselage of a modern transport airplane.
A comparison was made the results obtained previously for hulls with wing interference.
An approximate method for determining the convective cooling requirement in the laminar-boundary-layer region of a body of revolution in high-speed flight was developed and applied to an example body. The cooling requirement for the example body was determined as a function of Mach number, altitude, size, and a surface-temperature parameter. The maximum value of Mach number considered was 3.0 and the altitudes considered were those within the lower constant-temperature region of the atmosphere (40,000 to 120,000 ft). The extent of the laminar boundary layer was determined approximately at each condition as a function of the variables considered.
A brief study has been made to evaluate the importance of the type of air-compression process on the loads produced on an oleo-pneumatic landing gear during impact and to determine the type of air compression process actually obtained during drop tests. A simplified analysis to determine the effect which different air-compression processes might have indicates that the value of the air-compression exponent should have relatively little effect on the landing-gear loads throughout most of the impact. The analysis of experimental data obtained in these tests shows that the polytropic exponent ranged from 1.01 to 1.10 for the condtions tested. The general trend of the data appears relatively independent of vertical contact velocity.
An experimental investigation of the PV-2 helicopter rotor has been conducted at the Langley Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to determine the basic characteristics of a fully articulated rotor.

Report

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 34


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