Measuring an airplane's true speed in flight testing / by W.G. Brown.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Brown, W. G., author.

Contributor:

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

Series:

Technical note (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ; 135.

Technical notes / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; No. 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Airplanes--Speed--Measurement.

Airplanes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 pages, 4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1923.

Summary:

For the ordinary range of flying where the pilot never knows the exact velocity and direction of the wind, the airspeed meter serves more as a stability indicator than it does as a true instrument of navigation. The pilot depends upon it as he depends upon the sound of the interplane wires or the stiffness of the controls to tell in what part of the flying range the airplane is operating. Except possibly in navigating over the sea where the winds are steady and can be allowed for, an error of a few miles per hour is of no great consequence.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed August 9, 2019).

"April 1923."

No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Brown, W.G. Measuring an airplane's true speed in flight testing

OCLC:

1117765861