NASA Memorandum

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1958 - Aeronautics

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Page 20 - Chemical solids as diffusible coating films for visual indication of boundary layer transition in air and water. R. & M.
Page 20 - The use of a luminescent lacquer for the visual indication of boundary-layer transition.
Page 20 - ... and Cruciform-Wing and Body Combinations. NACA Rep. 962, 1950. B-3. Heaslet, Max A.; Lomax, Harvard; and Spreiter, John R.: Linearized Compressible-Flow Theory for Sonic Flight Speeds. NACA Rep. 956, 1950. B-4. Jones, Robert T.: Estimated Lift-Drag Ratios at Supersonic Speed. NACATN 1350, 1947. B-5. Vincenti, Walter G.; Nielsen, Jack N.; and Matteson, Frederick H.: Investigation of Wing Characteristics at a Mach Number of 1.53. I— Triangular Wings of Aspect Ratio 2. NACA RM A7I10, 1947. B-6....
Page 20 - The Observation of Temperature Distributions and of Thermal Radiation by Means of Non-Linear Phosphors," /. Opt. Soc. Am., 39, no. 12, pp. 1011-1019 (December, 1949). 59. LC Bradley, "A Temperature-Sensitive Phosphor Used to Measure Surface Temperatures in Aerodynamics,
Page 8 - Boundary-layer flow patterns on a wing were observed and photographed in the Langley high-speed 7- by 10-foot tunnel for a Mach number range from 0.6 to 0.92, with the angle of attack fixed for each test.
Page 20 - Investigation at Transonic Speeds of Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Unswept Semielliptical Air Inlet in the Root of a U5° Sweptback Wing.
Page 4 - Where emphasis is on determining the direction of boundary -layer crossflows, it may help to apply the oil in small discrete dabs which then stretch out into lines that show the direction of the surface shear.

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