Airship Aerodynamics
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1941
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Description: TM 1-320 Airship Aerodynamics 1941-02-11

Prepared under direction of the Chief of the Air Corps
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Paragraph Page; title: Section I. General. Paragraph; title: Definition of aerodynamics 1; title: Purpose and scope 2; title: Importance 3; title: Glossary of terms 4; title: Types of airships 6; title: Aerodynamic forces 6; title: II. Resistance.; title: Fluid resistance 7; title: Shape coefficients 8; title: Coefficient of skin friction 9; title: Resistance of streamlined body 10; title: Prismatic coefficient 11; title: Index of form efficiency 12; title: Illustrative resistance problem 13; title: Scale effect 14; title: Resistance of completely rigged airship 13; title: Deceleration test 16; title: III. Power requirements.; title: Power required to OTercoine airship resistance 17; title: Results of various speed trials 18; title: Burgess formula for horsepower 19; title: Speed developed by given horsepower 20; title: Summary 21; title: IV. Stability.; title: Variation of pressure distribution on airship hull 22; title: Specific stability and center of gravity of airship 23; title: Center of buoyancy 24; title: Description of major axis of airship 25; title: Types of stability 26; title: Forces and moments acting on airship 27; title: Damping moment 28; title: Longitudinal stability 29; title: Directional stability 30; title: Lateral stability 31; title: Summary 32