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Drag determinations of the forward component of a tricycle landing gear / by Hubert N. Harmon.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Harmon, Hubert N., author.
- Series:
- Technical note (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ; 788.
- Technical note / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; no. 788
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airplanes--Landing gear.
- Airplanes.
- Drag (Aerodynamics).
- Wind tunnel testing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (7 pages, 20 unnumbered pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, [D.C.] : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1940.
- Summary:
- Wind-tunnel tests were performed to determine the drag of the front-wheel arrangements of several types of tricycle landing gear. One wheel was tested in arrangements to simulated both nonretracted and partly retracted types. The landing gears were tested in conjuction with a fuselage, and the effects of wheel extension and longitudinal location were determined.
- The drag changed very little with either longitudinal location or where extension for the landing gear with the lowest drag; a completely faired landing gear of the wheel-spat, single-strut type. THe drag of the trouser-type landing gear increased considerably, however, with an increase in the wheel extension. The wheel of the unfaired retractable landing gear was at least one-half retracted into the fuselage before the drag became less than that of the best nonretracted landing gears for the present tests was about the same as that found for similar landing gears in earlier tests.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (TRAIL, viewed February 18, 2022).
- "December 1940."
- "Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory."
- No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 5).
- Electronic reproduction. Denton, Texas : University of North Texas, 2011. Electronic reproduction from print master produced by University of North Texas
- Other Format:
- Print version: Harmon, Hubert N. Drag determinations of the forward component of a tricycle landing gear
- OCLC:
- 1158388804
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