On a new type of wind tunnel / by Max Munk.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Munk, Max M. (Max Michael), 1890- author.

Contributor:

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, issuing body.

Series:

Technical note (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ; 60.

Technical notes / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; No. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wind tunnel testing.

Wind tunnels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (19 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1921.

Summary:

The difficulties involved in conducting tests on airplanes and airships in actual flight, difficulties greater in the early years of aviation than now, and the matter of expense also, induced investigators to seek for information through tests upon models. The first of such tests was made by moving the model thorugh stationary air either by means of a whirling arm or in a straight line. Later the method adopted was to susped the model in a current of air flowing in a large tube. Wind tunnels of this type have become a increasingly great importance. At first the tunnels were only small peices of physical apparatus in a laboratory, but at last they require an entire building. The latest wind tunnel of the Zeppelin Company in Germany provides a current of air ten feet in diameter, which has a velocity of 110 mi/hr and absorbs 500 H.P.

The results obtained with this type of wind tunnel are of very great value and at the present time they are the chief source of information for the aircraft designer.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed July 1, 2019).

"May, 1921."

No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.

Electronic reproduction. Denton, Texas : University of North Texas, 2011. Electronic reproduction from print master produced by University of North Texas.

Other Format:

Print version: Munk, Max M. On a New type of wind tunnel

OCLC:

1107323700