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Drag and cooling with various forms of cowling for a "Whirlwind" engine in a cabin fuselage / by Fred E. Weick.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Weick, Fred E., author.
- Series:
- Technical note (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ; 301.
- Technical notes / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; No. 301
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airplanes--Motors--Cowlings.
- Airplanes.
- Drag (Aerodynamics).
- Cooling.
- Wind tunnel testing.
- cooling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (25 pages, 20 unnumbered pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, [D.C.] : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1928.
- Summary:
- The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has undertaken an investigation, in the 20-foot Propeller Research Tunnel at Langley Field, on the cowling of radial air-cooled engines. A portion of the investigation has been completed, in which several forms and degrees of cowling were tested on a Wright "Whirlwind" J-5 engine mounted in the nose of a cabin fuselage. The cowlings varied from the one extreme of an entirely exposed engine to the other in which the engine was entirely enclosed. Cooling tests were made and each cowling modified if necessary until the engine cooled approximately as satisfactorily as when it was entirely exposed. Drag tests were then made with each form of cowling, and the effect of the cowling on the propulsive efficiency determined with a metal propeller.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (TRAIL, viewed June 8, 2020).
- "November 1928."
- "Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory."
- Contains an appendix titled "Flight Tests of No. 10 Cowling" by Thomas Carroll.
- No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.
- Includes bibliographical reference (page 22).
- Electronic reproduction. Denton, Texas : University of North Texas, 2011. Electronic reproduction from print master produced by University of North Texas.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Weick, Fred E. Drag and cooling with various forms of cowling for a "Whirlwind" engine in a cabin fuselage
- OCLC:
- 1127388989
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