Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Issues 1-7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - Aeronautics Includes the Committee's Technical reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acceleration advisory committee aero engines aeroplane air-cooled anemometer angle arithmetical mean aviation Balloon fabric brake horsepower carburetor Cast iron cellulose cellulose acetate cent coats varnish coefficient combustion Committee for Aeronautics cooling cord cotton crank curve cylinder engines cylinders in line Daimler damping density diameter Doped equation factor feet ferrule figure flight fluid foot-seconds friction fuel gasoline Gnome Gross Net force gust head head-on heat horsepower inch increase investigation Linen long oscillation lubrication machine material mean effective pressure metal meter miles per hour mixture motion obtained ounces per square permeability piston pitch pitching moment Pitot tube plate pounds practice radial star ratio resistance rotating cylinder rubber shaft short oscillation skin friction spar varnish square foot square yard stay steel strand surface temperature tensile strength tests tion uncoated valve varnish velocity Venturi Warp weight wind wing chord wire
Popular passages
Page 9 - Committee (1) to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution...
Page 8 - President or to the heads of executive departments upon special inquiries or subjects appropriate thereto, and an annual report to the Congress shall be submitted through the President, including as full a statement of the activities of the council and the agencies subordinate to it as is consistent with the public interest, including an itemized account...
Page 9 - That the sum of $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available for experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council...
Page 9 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions.
Page 11 - ... authorized in 5 USC 5703 while away from their homes or regular places of business. (c) Payments made under this section shall not render members of the Committee employees or officials of the United States for any purpose. § 7.24 Organization. (a) The Chairman, or alternate to the Chairman in his absence, shall preside at all meetings of the Committee and shall have the usual powers of a presidIng officer.
Page 9 - In the event of a laboratory or laboratories, either in whole or in part, being placed under the direction of the committee, the committee may direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics in such laboratory or laboratories.
Page 7 - ... carry out provisions of the act of Congress approved August 29, 1916, relative to the establishment of navy yards, naval stations, and submarine and aviation bases. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was appointed by the President, pursuant to act of Congress approved March 3, 1915 (naval appropriation act, public No. 273, Sixty-third Congress). Its membership consists of two officers of the Army, two officers of the Navy, a representative...
Page 9 - Standards; together with not more than five additional persons who shall be acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences.
Page 10 - Second. The committee may also exercise its functions for any individual, firm, association, or corporation within the United States, provided that such individual, firm, association, or corporation defray the actual cost involved. Third. The committee institutes research, investigation, and study of...
Page 7 - There are many practical problems in aeronautics now in too indefinite a form to enable their solution to be undertaken. The committee is of the opinion that one of the first and most important steps to be taken in connection with the committee's work is the provision and equipment of a flying field together with aeroplanes and suitable testing gear for determining the forces acting on fullsized machines in constrained and in free flight, and to this end the estimates submitted contemplate the development...