Investigation of the longitudinal stability at high speeds of a 1/5-scale model of a tailless pursuit airplane / by Edmund V. Laitone.
Tests of a tailless pursuit airplane model at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory have shown that in conditions corresponding to level flight at a Mach number less than 0.7 and at an altitude under 35,000 feet, no serious compressibility effects occurred and that no sudden adverse diving moments were e...
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| Other title: | NACA Wartime Reports. Series A. |
| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
[1943]
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| Series: | Wartime Reports (United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) ;
no. A77. |
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| Summary: | Tests of a tailless pursuit airplane model at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory have shown that in conditions corresponding to level flight at a Mach number less than 0.7 and at an altitude under 35,000 feet, no serious compressibility effects occurred and that no sudden adverse diving moments were encountered up to a Mach number of 0.74, the maximum speed of the tests. However, there were indications that the elevons might lose their effectiveness for longitudinal control during a pull-out from a steep dive. |
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| Item Description: | NACA Wartime Report A-77. Originally issued as NACA as a Memorandum Report (March 1943) Prepared at the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. |
| Physical Description: | 4 pages, 19 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |