Guide to the Herb Rawdon Papers

Collection Summary

Title: Herb Rawdon Papers
Call Number: MS 81-6
Size: 15.0 linear feet
Acquisition: Gift of Mrs. Herb Rawdon and Mr. and Mrs. Herb Rawdon Jr. to Wichita State University.
Processed by: RJK, 12/1981; Reprocessed by JEF, 5/1999


Literary Rights

Literary rights were granted to Wichita State University. When permission is granted to examine manuscripts, it is not an authorization to publish them. Manuscripts cannot be used for publication without regard for common law literary rights, copyright laws and the laws of libel. It is the responsibility of the researcher and his/her publisher to obtain permission to publish. Scholars and students who eventually plan to have their work published are urged to make inquiry regarding overall restrictions on publication before initial research.

Content Note

The Herb Rawdon Papers include notebooks, engineering drawings, photographs, speeches, and memorabilia relating primarily to his professional career as an aviation engineer.

Biography

Herbert M. Rawdon, Wichita aviation pioneer, was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1904. He attended public school in Woodward and Sharon, Oklahoma, graduating from high school in 1921. Rawdon attended Ohio Northern University for a short time, but soon transferred to Tri-State College at Angola, Indiana, where he received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1925.

Upon graduation, Rawdon went to work for the Travel Air Company in Wichita. He remained with Travel Air for the next six years, rising to the position of chief engineer. Rawdon left Travel Air when the company merged with Curtiss-Wright in 1931. He formed the Rawdon-Christopher Aircraft Company, specializing in aircraft maintenance and modification, but this venture lasted only one year. He then worked as a draftsman for Lockheed and Boeing from 1933 to 1934. In 1935, Rawdon accepted a one year teaching position as an engineering instructor for the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute in California. He then served as production manager and superintendent for Spartan Aircraft Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From 1937 to 1940, Rawdon worked as a design engineer for Douglas Aircraft in El Segundo, California. During these three years he also served as a consultant for the National Aircraft Company in San Antonio, Texas.

In 1940, Rawdon returned to Wichita to work for Beech Aircraft Company. He served as chief engineer for the Design and Research Division until he left the company in 1960. After leaving Beech, Rawdon was associated with Boeing, Cessna, and Lycoming on a consulting basis while engaged in advance design work of his own.

Herb Rawdon is perhaps best known as the designer, in collaboration with Walter Burnham, of the Travel Air Model R, or "Mystery Ship." In 1929, the "Mystery-S," as it came to be known, became the first civilian aircraft to win the Thompson Trophy. Rawdon and Burnham were both employees of Walter Beech at the Travel Air Company. Beech had been consistently frustrated in his attempts to defeat the military planes in the National Air Races and win the Thompson Trophy. After the 1928 races, Beech lamented the poor showing of the commercial entries. In response to Beech's remarks, Rawdon and Burnham designed the Model R. They worked on the project totally in their spare time and totally in secret. When they finished, they showed the plans to Beech who immediately ordered the plane in to production. The entire project was kept under wraps, hence the designation "Mystery Ship." At Cleveland in 1929 the plane easily outdistanced all other entries in the National Air Races. Although it was never put into full-scale production, the "Mystery Ship" helped bring about fundamental changes in aircraft design.

At the time of his death on December 2, 1975, Rawdon was president of Rawdon Brothers Aircraft and owner of the Rawdon Airfield in east Wichita.

Series Listing

Series 1 Box 1 FF 1 Personal Notebook
Series 2 Box 1 FF 2 - Box 3 FF 2 Literary Productions
Series 3 Box 3 FF 3-6 Speeches and Speech Materials
Series 4 Box 3 FF 7 - Box 7 Business Papers
Series 5 Box 8 FF 1-6 Miscellaneous Rawdon Documents
Series 6 Box 8 FF 7 - Box 10 FF 3 General Files
Series 7 Box 10 FF 4 - Box 12 Photographs
Series 8 Box 13 - Box 17 FF 13 NACA Reports, Research Memoranda and Technical Notes
Series 9 Box 17 FF 14 - Box 18 NASA Reports, Research Memoranda and Technical Notes
Series 10 Box 19 - Box 20 FF 10 Miscellaneous Documents
Series 11 Box 20 FF 11-14 U.S. Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics Technical Notes
Series 12 Box 20 FF 15-27 War Department Technical Manuals
Series 13 Box 20 FF 28-29 Air Corps Information Circulars, Vols. VI and VII
Series 14 Box 20 FF 30-34 Air Service Information Circulars, Vols. II - VI
Series 15 Box 20 FF 35-39 Miscellaneous Reports and Journals
Series 16 Box 21-26 and Oversized Blueprints and Drawings
 

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1 -- Personal Notebook
     
Box 1 FF 1 Personal Notebook
 
Series 2 -- Literary Productions
     
Box 1 FF 2 Literary Productions: Design Data and Charts
Box 1 FF 3 Literary Productions: "The Design of an Airplane"
Box 1 FF 4 Literary Productions: "Development of the Beech Bonanza"
Box 1 FF 5 Literary Productions: "Estimating Airplane Development Costs"
Box 1 FF 6 Literary Productions: "The Gas Turbine and Jet Propulsion"
Box 1 FF 7 Literary Productions: "The Landing Gear"
Box 1 FF 8 Literary Productions: Photographs for "The Landing Gear" article
Box 2 FF 1 Literary Productions: "An Operator's Observations on the Flying Business"
Box 2 FF 2 Literary Productions: "Preliminary Design Processes"
Box 2 FF 3 Literary Productions: "Personal Aircraft - Problems and Progress"
Box 2 FF 4 Literary Productions: Research Data for "Personal Aircraft - Problems and Progress" article
Box 3 FF 1 Literary Productions: "Requirements of the Feeder Line Airplane"
Box 3 FF 2 Literary Productions: Review of Wm. Lear's "The Modern Executive Airplane as a Medium of Transportation"
 
Series 3 -- Speeches and Speech Materials
     
Box 3 FF 3 Speech Materials
Box 3 FF 4 Speeches: "The Travel Air Mystery Ship"
Box 3 FF 5 Speeches: "Wing and Tail Surface Structures"
Box 3 FF 6 Speeches: "Wood vs. Metal Aircraft Construction"
 
Series 4 -- Business Papers
     
Box 3 FF 7 Business Papers: Beech Aircraft Company: Comments on "Simplified Requirements...CAR Part 3"
Box 3 FF 8 Business Papers: Beech Aircraft Company: Model A35 - Weight Control Report and Drawings
Box 4 FF 1 Business Papers: Boeing: Model 909 - Preliminary Study
Box 4 FF 2 Business Papers: National Aircraft Company: Basic Trainer - Schematics and Monoplane Design
Box 4 FF 3 Business Papers: Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company: Torque Arm Blueprints
Box 4 FF 4 Business Papers: Rawdon Aircraft Company: Engineering Department - Organization and Management Data
Box 4 FF 5 Business Papers: Rawdon Aircraft Company: Practical Designs and Organizations
Box 5 FF 1 Business Papers: Rawdon Brothers Aircraft: Cabin Airplane - 3 View Drawing
Box 5 FF 2 Business Papers: Rawdon Brothers Aircraft: Model R-1 - Structural Analysis
Box 5 FF 3 Business Papers: Rawdon Brothers Aircraft: Model R-2 - Inboard Profile
Box 5 FF 4 Business Papers: Rawdon Brothers Aircraft: Organizational Plans
Box 5 FF 5 Business Papers: Rawdon Brothers Aircraft: Report DL-501 - The Rawdon Series "C4" Aircraft
Box 5 FF 6 Business Papers: Rawdon-Burnham Company: Tri-State College Wind Tunnel
Box 6 FF 1 Business Papers: Rawdon-Christopher Aircraft: Instrument Board
Box 6 FF 2 Business Papers: Rawdon-Christopher Aircraft: Model 2B-3 View Drawing
Box 6 FF 3 Business Papers: Rawdon-Christopher Aircraft: U.S. Army Air Corps Drafting Room Manual
Box 6 FF 4 Business Papers: Rawdon-Christopher Aircraft: U.S. Army Air Corps Standards
Box 6 FF 5 Business Papers: Travel Air: Appendix to Model R Analysis
Box 6 FF 6 Business Papers: Travel Air: Model R and R105 - Miscellaneous Data
Box 6 FF 7 Business Papers: Travel Air: Model RD - 3 View Drawing
Box 7 FF 1 Business Papers: Travel Air: Model 4000 - Stress Analysis
Box 7 FF 2 Business Papers: Travel Air: Model 6000 - Stress Analysis
Box 7 FF 3 Business Papers: Travel Air: Model 7000 - Stress Analysis
 
Series 5 -- Miscellaneous Rawdon Documents
     
Box 8 FF 1 Rawdon Miscellaneous: Dayton University Tire Test Machine
Box 8 FF 2 Rawdon Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous Sketches
Box 8 FF 3 Rawdon Miscellaneous: Sketch - Unidentified Airplane
Box 8 FF 4 Rawdon Miscellaneous: Tri-State College: Descriptive Geometry - Miscellaneouns Problems
Box 8 FF 5 Rawdon Miscellaneous: Tri-State College: "The Design of a Gas Engine"
Box 8 FF 6 Rawdon Miscellaneous: Tri-State College: Fuselage Joint Sketch
 
Series 6 -- General Files
     
Box 8 FF 7 General Files: Bellanca Aircraft Corporation
Box 8 FF 8 General Files: Carter Engineering Company
Box 8 FF 9 General Files: Curtiss-Wright - Fuel Tanks
Box 8 FF 10 General Files: Design Information (File 1)
Box 8 FF 11 General Files: Design Information (File 2)
Box 9 FF 1 General Files: Dimensions of an Average-Size Man
Box 9 FF 2 General Files: "An Engineer's Nightmare"
Box 9 FF 3 General Files: Federal Aviation Agency/Industry Agricultural Aviation Meeting
Box 9 FF 4 General Files: Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Box 9 FF 5 General Files: Graphical Determination of Veliocity and Acceleration
Box 9 FF 6 General Files: Hamilton Standard Propellers
Box 9 FF 7 General Files: Lauson-Power Products
Box 9 FF 8 General Files: Lycoming
Box 9 FF 9 General Files: Miscellaneous Aircraft Standards
Box 9 FF 10 General Files: Navy Department - Miscellaneous Technical Notes
Box 10 FF 1 General Files: Society of Automotive Engineers - Announcements
Box 10 FF 2 General Files: Unidentified Drawing
Box 10 FF 3 General Files: U.S. Army Air Corps Material Division Standards
 
Series 7 -- Photographs
     
Box 10 FF 4 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Bonanza (File 1)
Box 10 FF 5 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Bonanza (File 2)
Box 10 FF 6 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Continental Motor
Box 10 FF 7 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Landing Gear Test
Box 10 FF 8 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Miscellaneous Propellers
Box 11 FF 1 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Model AT10 and Model 18
Box 11 FF 2 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Model AT10 - Jigs and Tools
Box 11 FF 3 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Model AT11
Box 11 FF 4 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Model 17
Box 11 FF 5 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Model T1
Box 11 FF 6 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Model 34 "Twin Quad"
Box 11 FF 7 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Twin Bonanza (File 1)
Box 11 FF 8 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Twin Bonanza (File 2)
Box 11 FF 9 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Type F2 Photographic Plane
Box 11 FF 10 Photographs: Beech Aircraft Company: Vibration Test Set-Up
Box 12 FF 1 Photographs: Miscellaneous Aircraft
Box 12 FF 2 Photographs: Miscellaneous Photographs from Rawdon's Articles
Box 12 FF 3 Photographs: Nutt, Arthur
Box 12 FF 4 Photographs: Rawdon, Herb
Box 12 FF 5 Photographs: Roby Propeller
Box 12 FF 6 Photographs: Travel Air (File 1)
Box 12 FF 7 Photographs: Travel Air (File 2)
Box 12 FF 8 Photographs: "The Mystery Ship"
 
Series 8 -- NACA Reports, Research Memoranda and Technical Notes
     
Box 13 FF 1 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Report 1135. Equations, Tables, and Charts for Compressible Flow. By Ames Research Staff. 1953.
Box 13 FF 2 NACA Report 1154. Analysis of Landing-Gear Behavior. By Benjamin Milwitzky and Francis E. Cook. 1953.
Box 13 FF 3 NACA Report 1339. A Summary and Analysis of the Low-Speed Longitudinal Characteristics of Swept Wings at High Reynolds Number. By G. Chester Furlong and James G. McHugh. 1953.
Box 13 FF 4 NACA Research Memorandum L8D09. Summary of Section Data on Trailing-Edge High-Lift Devices. By Jones F. Cahill. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. August 20, 1948.
Box 13 FF 5 NACA Research Memorandum L55D21. Velocity Distributions Measured in the Slipstream of Eight-Blade and Six-Blade Dual-Rotating Propellers at Zero Advance. By Leland B. Salters, Jr. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. June 21, 1955.
Box 13 FF 6 NACA Research Memorandum L55E12c. Vertical and Drag Ground-Reaction Forces Developed in Landing Impacts of a Large Airplane. By Richard H. Sawyer, Albert W. Hall, and James M. McKay. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. June 21, 1955.
Box 13 FF 7 NACA Technical Note 1245. Summary of Lateral-Control Research. By Langley Research Department. Compiled by Thomas A. Toll. Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. March 1947.
Box 13 FF 8 NACA Technical Note 1404. Collection of Test Data for Lateral Control with Full-Span Flaps. By Jack Fischel and Margaret F. Ivey. Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. April 1948.
Box 13 FF 9 NACA Technical Note 2201. Measurement of the Moments of Inertia of an Airplane by a Simplified Method. By Howard L. Turner. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Ca. October 1950.
Box 13 FF 10 NACA Technical Note 2596. An Impulse-Momentum Method for Calculating Landing-Gear Contact Conditions in Eccentric Landings. By Robert T. Yntema and Benjamin Milwitzky. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. January 1952.
Box 13 FF 11 NACA Technical Note 2645. Effects of Wing Lift and Weight on Landing-Gear Loads. By Dean C. Lindquist. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. March 1952.
Box 13 FF 12 NACA Technical Note 2661. A Summary of Diagonal Tension Part I - Methods of Analysis. By Paul Kuhn, James P. Peterson and L. Ross Levin. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1952.
Box 13 FF 13 NACA Technical Note 2662. A Summary of Diagonal Tension Part II - Experimental Evidence. By Paul Kuhn, James P. Peterson and L. Ross Levin. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1952.
Box 13 FF 14 NACA Technical Note 2670. High-Speed Subsonic Characteristics of 16 NACA 6-Series Airfoil Sections. By Milton D. Van Dyke. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Ca. March 1952.
Box 13 FF 15 NACA Technical Note 2775. Analysis of Landing-Gear Behavior. By Benjamin Milwitzky and Francis E. Cook. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. August 1952.
Box 13 FF 16 NACA Technical Note 2926. Static Force-Deflection Characteristics of Six Aircraft Tires Under Combined Loading. By Walter B. Horne. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1953.
Box 13 FF 17 NACA Technical Note 2930. Strength Analysis of Stiffened Thick Beam Webs with Ratios of Web Depth to Web Thickness of Approximately 60. By L. Ross Levin. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1953.
Box 14 FF 1 NACA Technical Note 3023. Results of Edge-Compression Tests on Stiffened Flat-Sheet Panels of Alclad and Nonclad 14S-T6, 24S-T3 and 75S-T6 Aluminum Alloys. By Marshall Holt. Aluminum Company of America. April 1954.
Box 14 FF 2 NACA Technical Note 3182. Manual of the ICAO Standard Atmosphere, Calculations by the NACA. International Civil Aviation Organization, Montreal, Canada and Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1954.
Box 14 FF 3 NACA Technical Note 3246. An Experimental Investigation of Wheel Spin-Up Drag Loads. By Benjamin Milwitzky, Dean C. Lindquist and Dexter M. Potter. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1954.
Box 14 FF 4 NACA Technical Note 3294. Friction Study of Aircraft Tire Material on Concrete. By W.G. Hample. Boeing Aircraft Company. September 1955.
Box 14 FF 5 NACA Technical Note 3413. Investigation of the Use of a Rubber Analog in the Study of Stress Distribution in Riveted and Cemented Joints. By Louis R. Demarkles. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. November 1955.
Box 14 FF 6 NACA Technical Note 3415. A Universal Column Formula for Load at Which Yielding Starts. By L.H. Donnell and V.C. Tsien. Illinois Institute of Technology. October 1955.
Box 14 FF 7 NACA Technical Note 3435. A Statistical Study of Wing Lift at Ground Contact for Four Transport Airplanes. By Dean C. Lindquist. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. April 1955.
Box 14 FF 8 NACA Technical Note 3475. An Analysis of Acceleration, Airspeed and Gust-Velocity Data from One Type of Four-Engine Transport Airplane Operated Over Two Domestic Routes. By Martin R. Copp and Thomas L. Coleman. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. October 1955.
Box 14 FF 9 NACA Technical Note 3476. Calculated Spanwise Lift Distributions and Aerodynamic Influence Coefficients for Swept Wings in Subsonic Flow. By Franklin W. Diederich and Martin Zlotnick. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. October 1955.
Box 14 FF 10 NACA Technical Note 3495. Failure of Materials Under Combined Repeated Stresses with Superimposed Static Stresses. By George Sines. University of California at Los Angeles. November 1955.
Box 14 FF 11 NACA Technical Note 3497. Summary of Results of a Wind-Tunnel Investigation of Nine Related Horizontal Tails. By Jules B. Dods, Jr. and Bruce E. Tinling. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Ca. July 1955.
Box 14 FF 12 NACA Technical Note 3502. The Transonic Characteristics of 38 Cambered Rectangular Wings of Varying Aspect Ratio and Thickness as Determined by the Transonic-Bump Technique. By Warren H. Nelson and Walter J. Krumm. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. June 1955.
Box 14 FF 13 NACA Technical Note 3541. A Method for Obtaining Statistical Data on Airplane Vertical Velocity at Ground Contact Acceleration. By Robert C. Dreher. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. February 1956.
Box 14 FF 14 NACA Technical Note 3564. Effect of Pneumatic De-Icers and Ice Formations on Aerodynamice Characteristics of an Airfoil. By Dean T. Bowden. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. February 1956.
Box 14 FF 15 NACA Technical Note 3600. Correlation of Crippling Strength of Plate Structures with Material Properties. By Roger A. Anderson and Melvin S. Anderson. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. January 1956.
Box 14 FF 16 NACA Technical Note 3603. Theoretical Study of the Lateral Frequency Response to Gusts of a Fighter Airplane, Both with Controls Fixed and with Several Types of Autopilots. By James J. Adams and Charles W. Mathews. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. March 1956.
Box 14 FF 17 NACA Technical Note 3604. Low-Speed Yawed-Rolling Characteristics and Other Elastic Properties of a pair of 26-Inch-Diameter, 12-Ply-Rating, Type Vii Aircraft Tires. By Walter B. Horne, Robert F. Smiley and Bertrand H. Stephenson. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1956.
Box 14 FF 18 NACA Technical Note 3610. Comparison of Landing-Impact Velocities of First and Second Wheel to Contact from Statistical Measurements of Transport Airplane Landings. By Eziaslav N. Harrin. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. February 1956.
Box 14 FF 19 NACA Technical Note 3615. An Experimental Investigation of the Scale Relations for the Impinging Water Spray Generated by a Planing Surface. By Ellis E. McBride. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. February 1956.
Box 14 FF 20 NACA Technical Note 3619. Effect of Carriage Mass Upon the Loads and Motions of a Prismatic Body During Hydrodynamic Impact. By Melvin F. Markey. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. March 1956.
Box 14 FF 21 NACA Technical Note 3629. Investigation of the Effects of Ground Proximity and Propeller Position on the Effectiveness of a Wing with Large-Chord Slotted Flaps in Redirecting Propeller Slipstreams Downward for Vertical Take-Off. By Richard E. Kuhn. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. March 1956.
Box 15 FF 1 NACA Technical Note 3633. Analysis of the Ultimate Strength and Optimum Proportions of Multiweb Wing Structures. By B. Walter Rosen. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. March 1956.
Box 15 FF 2 NACA Technical Note 3637. Flight Investigation of the Effectiveness of an Automatic Aileron Trim Control Device for Personal Airplanes. By William H. Phillips, Helmut A. Kuehnel and James B. Whitten. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. April 1956.
Box 15 FF 3 NACA Technical Note 3642. Effect of Shallow Water on the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Flat-Bottom Planing Surface. By Kenneth W. Christopher. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. April 1956.
Box 15 FF 4 NACA Technical Note 3646. A Theory for the Elastic Deflections of Plates Integrally Stiffened on One Side. By Robert F. Crawford. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. April 1956.
Box 15 FF 5 NACA Technical Note 3676. Investigation of Lateral Control Near the Stall: Flight Tests with High-Wing and Low-Wing Monoplanes of Various Configurations. By Fred E. Weick and H. Norman Abramson. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. June 1956.
Box 15 FF 6 NACA Technical Note 3698. Preliminary Investigation of Self-Excited Vibrations of Single Planing Surfaces. By Elmo J. Mottard. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Virgina. June 1956.
Box 15 FF 7 NACA Technical Note 3781. Handbook of Structural Stability Part I - Buckling of Flat Plates. By George Gerard and Herbert Becker. New York University. July 1957.
Box 15 FF 8 NACA Technical Note 3782. Handbook of Structural Stability Part II - Buckling of Composite Elements. By Herbert Becker. New York University. July 1957.
Box 15 FF 9 NACA Technical Note 3783. Handbook of Structural Stability Part III - Buckling of Curved Plates and Shells. By George Gerard and Herbert Becker. New York University. August 1957.
Box 15 FF 10 NACA Technical Note 3784. Handbook of Structural Stability Part IV - Failure of Plates and Composite Elements. By George Gerard. New York University. August 1957.
Box 15 FF 11 NACA Technical Note 3785. Handbook of Structural Stability Part V - Compressive Strength of Flat Stiffened Panels. By George Gerard. New York University. August 1957.
Box 15 FF 12 NACA Technical Note 3786. Handbook of Structural Stability Part VI - Strength of Stiffened Curved Plates and Shells. By Herbert Becker. New York University. July 1958.
Box 15 FF 13 NACA Technical Note 4109. Low-Speed Yawned-Rolling Characteristics and Other Elastic Properties of a Pair of 40-inch-Diameter, 14-Ply-Rating, Type VII Aircraft Tires. By Walter B. Horne and Robert F. Smiley. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. January 1958.
Box 15 FF 14 NACA Technical Note 4110. Mechanical Properties of Pneumatic Tires with Special Reference to Modern Aircraft Tires. By Robert F. Smiley and Walter B. Horne. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. January 1958.
Box 15 FF 15 NACA Technical Note 4126. Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Some Shroud Design Variables on the Static Thrust Characteristics of a Small-Scale Shrouded Propeller Submerged in a Wing. By Robert T. Taylor. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. January 1958.
Box 15 FF 16 NACA Technical Note 4137. Fatigue Behavior of Aircraft Structural Beams. By W.S. Hyler, H.G. Popp, D.N. Gideon, S.A. Gordon and H.J. Grover. Battelle Memorial Institute. January 1958.
Box 15 FF 17 NACA Technical Note 4147. Measured and Predicted Dynamic Response Characteristics of a Flexible Airplane to Elevator Control Over a Frequency Range Including Three Structural Modes. By Henry A. Cole, Jr. and Euclid C. Holleman. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Ca. February 1958.
Box 15 FF 18 NACA Technical Note 4151. Correlations Among Ice Measurements, Inpingement Rates Icing Conditions, and Drag Coefficients for Unswept NACA 65A004 Airfoil. By Vernon H. Gray. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. February 1958.
Box 15 FF 19 NACA Technical Note 4155. Aerodynamic Effects Caused by Icing of an Unswept NACA 65A004 Airfoil. By Vernon H. Gray. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. February 1958.
Box 15 FF 20 NACA Technical Note 4158. Accelerations in Transport-Airplane Crashes. By G. Merritt Preston and Gerard J. Pesman. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. February 1958.
Box 15 FF 21 NACA Technical Note 4168. A Method for Calculation of Hydrodynamic Lift for Submerged and Planing Rectangular Lifting Surfaces. By Kennet L. Wadlin and Kenneth W. Christopher. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. January 1958.
Box 15 FF 22 NACA Technical Note 4177. Wind-Tunnel Investigation of the Static Longitudinal Stability and Trim Characteristics of a Sweptback-Wing Jet-Transport Model Equipped with an External-Flow Jet-Augumented Flap. By Joseph L. Johnson, Jr. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. January 1958.
Box 16 FF 1 NACA Technical Note 4188. Charts Relating the Compressive and Shear Buckling Stresses of Longitudinally Supported Plates to the Effective Deflectional Stiffness of the Supports. By Aldie E. Johnson, Jr. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. February 1958.
Box 16 FF 2 NACA Technical Note 4200. Effectiveness of Boundary-Layer Control, Obtained by Blowing Over a Plain Rear Flap in Combination with a Forward Slotted Flap, in Deflecting a Slipstream Downward for Vertical Take-Off. By Kenneth P. Spreemann. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. February 1958.
Box 16 FF 3 NACA Technical Note 4203. Flight Investigation of Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence and Moderate Maneuvers on Bending and Torsional Moments Encountered by a Helicopter Rotor Blade. By LeRoy H. Ludi. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. February 1958.
Box 16 FF 4 NACA Technical Note 4205. Transient Heating Effects on the Bending Strength of Integral Alumnium-Alloy Box Beams. By Richard A. Pride and John B. Hall, Jr. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. March 1958.
Box 16 FF 5 NACA Technical Note 4220. A Flight Evaluation and Analysis of the Effect of Icing Conditions on the ZPG-2 Airship. By William Lewis and Porter J. Perkins, Jr. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. April 1958.
Box 16 FF 6 NACA Technical Note 4237. General Instability of Stiffened Cylinders. By Herbert Becker. Ne York University. July 1958.
Box 16 FF 7 NACA Technical Note 4247. Study of Ground-Reaction Forces Measured During Landing Impacts of a Large Airplane. By Albert W. Hall, Richard H. Sawyer and James M. McKay. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1958.
Box 16 FF 8 NACA Technical Note 4251. An Experimental Investigation of Wake Effects on Hydro-Skis. By Ellis E. McBride and Lloyd J. Fisher. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1958.
Box 16 FF 9 NACA Technical Note 4254. Flight Investigation on Effects of Retreating-Blade Stall on Bending and Torsional Moments Encountered by a Helicopter Rotor Blade. By LeRoy H. Ludi. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. May 1958.
Box 16 FF 10 NACA Technical Note 4255. Wind-Tunnel Investigation at Low-Speeds of Flight Characteristics of a Sweptback-Wing Jet-Transport Airplane Model Equipped with an External-Flow Jet-Augmented Slotted Flap. By Joseph L. Johnson, Jr. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. July 1958.
Box 16 FF 11 NACA Technical Note 4261. Acoustic, Thrust, and Drag Characteristics of Several Full-Scale Noise Suppressors for Turbojet Engines. By Carl C. Ciepluch, Warren J. North, Willard D. Coles and Robert J. Antl. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. April 1958.
Box 16 FF 12 NACA Technical Note 4276. An Approximate Analytical Method for Studying Entry Into Planetary Atmospheres. By Dean R. Chapman. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Ca. May 1958.
Box 16 FF 13 NACA Technical Note 4283. Full-Scale Wind-Tunnel Tests of a 35o Sweptback-Wing Airplane with Blowing from the Shroud Ahead of the Trailing-Edge Flaps. By William H. Tolhurst, Jr. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Ca. July 1958.
Box 16 FF 14 NACA Technical Note 4290. A Fuselage Addition to Increase Drag-Rise Mach Number of Subsonic Airplanes at Lifting Conditions. By Richard T. Whitcomb. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. June 1958.
Box 16 FF 15 NACA Technical Note 4291. An Evaluation of Effects of Flexibility on Wing Strains in RoughAir for a Large Swept-Wing Airplane by Means of Experimentally Determined Frequency-Response Functions with an Assessment of Random-Process Techniques Employed. By Thomas L. Coleman, Harry Press and May T. Meadows. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. July 1958.
Box 16 FF 16 NACA Technical Note 4292. Local Instability of the Elements of a Truss-Core Sandwich Plate. By Melvin S. Anderson. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. July 1958.
Box 16 FF 17 NACA Technical Note 4293. Special Bodies Added on a Wing to Reduce Shock-Induced Boundary-Layer Separation at High Subsonic Speeds. By Richard T. Whitcomb. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. June 1958.
Box 16 FF 18 NACA Technical Note 4294. Effects of Nose Shape and Spray Control Strips on Emergence and Planing Spray of Hydro-Ski Models. By John R. McGehee. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. July 1958.
Box 16 FF 19 NACA Technical Note 4297. Flight Investigation of the Acceptability of a Small Side-Located Controller Used with an Irreversible Hydraulic Control System. By Helmut A. Kuehnel and Robert W. Sommer. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. July 1958.
Box 16 FF 20 NACA Technical Note 4304. Matrix Method for Obtaining Spanwise Moments and Deflections of Torsionally Rigid Motor Blades with Arbitrary Loadings. By Alton P. Mayo. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. August 1958.
Box 16 FF 21 NACA Technical Note 4307. Experimental Measurements of the Effects of Airplane Motions on Wing and Tail Angles of Attack of a Swept-Wing Bomber in Rough Air. By Jerome N. Engel. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. August 1958.
Box 16 FF 22 NACA Technical Note 4310. Measurements of the Motions of a Large Swept-Wing Airplane in Rough Air. By Richard H. Rhyne. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 16 FF 23 NACA Technical Note 4317. Turbojet Engine Noise Reduction with Mixing Nozzle-Ejector Combinations. By Willard D. Coles, John A. Mihaloew and Edmund E. Callaghan. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio. August 1958.
Box 16 FF 24 NACA Technical Note 4322. Ordinates and Theoretical Pressure-Distribution Data for NACA 6-and 6A-Series Airfoil Sections with Thickness from 2 to 21 and from 2 to 15 Percent Chord, Respectively. By Elizabeth W. Patterson and Albert L. Braslow. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 16 FF 25 NACA Technical Note 4339. Hydrodynamic Impact Loads of a -20o Dead-Rise Inverted-V Model and Comparisons with Loads of a Flat-Bottom Model. By Philip M. Edge, Jr. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. August 1958.
Box 16 FF 26 NACA Technical Note 4351. Summary of Methods of Measuring Angle of Attack on Aircraft. By William Gracey. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. August 1958.
Box 17 FF 1 NACA Technical Note 4355. Low Tip Mach Number Stall Characteristics and High Tip Mach Number Compressibility Effects on a Helicopter Rotor Having an NACA 0009 Tip Airfoil Section. By Robert D. Powell, Jr. and Paul J. Carpenter. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. July 1958.
Box 17 FF 2 NACA Technical Note 4356. Effects of Compressibility on Rotor Hovering Performance and Synthesized Blade-Section Characteristics Derived from Measured Rotor Performance of Blades Having NACA 0015 Airfoil Tip Sections. By James P. Shivers and Paul J. Carpenter. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 3 NACA Technical Note 4357. Lift and Profile-Drag Characteristics of an NACA 0012 Airfoil Section as Derived from Measured Helicopter-Rotor Hovering Performance. By Paul J. Carpenter. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 4 NACA Technical Note 4367. Wind-Tunnel Tests of a Full-Scale Helicopter Rotor with Symmetrical and with Cambered Blade Sections at Advance Ratios from 0.3 to 0.4. By John L. McCloud III and George B. McCullough. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, Ca. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 5 NACA Technical Note 4389. Effect of Advance Ratio on Flight Performance of a Modified Supersonic Propeller. By Jerome B. Hammack and Thomas C. O'Bryan. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 6 NACA Technical Note 4393. Some Static Longitudinal Stability Characteristics of an Overlapped-Type Tandem-Rotor Helicopter at Low Airspeeds. By Robert J. Tapscott. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 7 NACA Technical Note 4400. Measurements of Ground-Reaction Forces and Vertical Center-of-Gravity Accelerations of a Bomber Airplane Taxiing Over Obstacles. By James M. McKay, Richard H. Sawyer and Albert W. Hall. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 8 NACA Technical Note 4401. Hydrodynamic Impact Loads on 30° and 60° V-Step Plan-Form Models with and without Dead Rise. By Philip M. Edge, Jr. and Jean P. Mason. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 9 NACA Technical Note 4403. Tests of Ring-Stiffened Circular Cylinders Subjected to a Transverse Shear Load. By James P. Peterson and Richard G. Updegraff. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 10 NACA Technical Note 4406. Low Tire Friction and Cornering Forces on a Wet Surface. By Eziaslav N. Harrin. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 11 NACA Technical Note 4407. Effects of Ground Proximity on the Thrust of a Simple Downward-Directed Jet Beneath a Flat Surface. By Kenneth P. Spreemann and Irving R. Sherman. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 12 NACA Technical Note 4409. Flight Measurements of the Vibration Experienced by a Tandem Helicopter in Transition, Vortex-Ring State, Landing Approach, and Yawed Flight. By John E. Yeates. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
Box 17 FF 13 NACA Technical Note 4410. Flight Measurements of the Vibratory Stresses on a Propeller Designed for an Advance Ratio of 4.0 and a Mach Number of 0.82. By Thomas C. O'Bryan. Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Langley Field, Va. September 1958.
 
Series 9 -- NASA Reports, Research Memoranda and Technical Notes
     
Box 17 FF 14 NASA Technical Note D-4. Influence of Shaft Deflection and Surface Roughness on Load-Carrying Capacity of Plain Journal Bearings. By F.H. Raven and R.L. Wehe. Cornell University. August 1959.
Box 17 FF 15 NASA Technical Note D-35. Full-Scale Wind-Tunnel Investigation of the Longitudinal Characteristics of a Tilting-Rotor Convertiplane. By David G. Koenig, Richard K. Greif and Mark W. Kelly. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Ca. December 1959.
Box 17 FF 16 NASA Technical Note D-44. Force-Test Investigation of the Stability and Control Characteristics of a 1/8-Scale Model of a Tilt-Wing Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Airplane. By Louis P. Tosti. Langley Research Center, Langley Field, Va. March 1960.
Box 17 FF 17 NASA Technical Note D-45. Flight Investigation of Stability and Control Characteristics of a 1/8-Scale Model of a Tilt-Wing Vertical-Take-Off-and-Landing Airplane. By Louis P. Tosti. Langley Research Center, Langley Field, Va. March 1960.
Box 17 FF 18 NASA Technical Note D-51. The Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Submerged Lifting Surface Having a Shape Suitable for Hydro-Ski Application. By Victor L. Vaughan, Jr. Langley Research Center, Langley Field, Va. October 1959.
Box 17 FF 19 NASA Technical Note D-89. Wind-Tunnel and Piloted Flight Simulator Investigation of a Deflected-Slipstream VTOL Airplane, the Ryan VZ-3RY. By Harry A. James, Rodney C. Wingrove, Curt A. Holzhauser and Fred J. Drinkwater III. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Ca. November 1959.
Box 17 FF 20 NASA Technical Note D-103. Investigation of Double Slotted Flaps on a Swept-Wing Transport Model. By Rodger L. Naseth and Edwin E. Davenport. Langley Research Center, Langley Field, Va. October 1959.
Box 17 FF 21 NASA Technical Note D-110. Method for Predicting Off-Design Performance of Axial-Flow Compressor Blade Rows. By George K. Serovy and E.W. Anderson. Iowa State College. August 1959.