The Aviation Historian — January 2018

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 41 and wrote a letter of recommendation to the Consul. Riiser-Larsen also advised Gunnestad n ...

42 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 ABOVE Gunnestad (in cockpit) and Thor Bernhoft prepare Lockheed Vega LN-ABD for the flight ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 43 Meanwhile, the Vega, stored at the naval air base at Horten, was transported to Kjeller fo ...

44 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 In conditions of little to no visibility, the pair worked their way up to Skagen on the ve ...

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streamlining and the root cause of drag tunnel vision streamlining and the of drag In the second article in his three-part serie ...

O NE SPRING MORNING in April 1926 Oswald and Eustace Short trolleyed their latest advance in aircraft engineering down the slipw ...

48 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 needed to feel they were going somewhere fast: fast communications, fast cars, fast boats ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 49 fudge on this issue, stating that “the reasons for this drag rise are not fully understood ...

50 Issue No 22 21, 1930, Junkers-F 13 G-AAZK was carrying four socialites back from a party in Le Touquet, France, when it crash ...

Issue No 22 51 NACA set up a series of tests in 1934 on the sole McDonnell Doodlebug, with similar geometry to that of the Junke ...

52 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 on convection for meteorologists throwing in a line explaining that thunder is just the so ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 53 big push, designing the future from the California coast (as often happened in the last ce ...

1 2 3 4 54 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 the heavily-faired Bellanca 28-70, Irish Swoop, that had been assembled at Eastlei ...

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56 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 was just the rate of change of the velocity (and the pressure gradient) that was reduced. ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 57 formal concession to supersonic flows, this big two-seater slipped through Mach 1 smoothly ...

58 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 Without getting into arcane supersonic aero- dynamics, the explanation for supersonic shoc ...

Issue No 22 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 59 1 Fozard, J.W. (Ed); Sydney Camm and the Hurricane (Airlife Publishing, 1991) 2 Ackroyd, J ...

THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 22 In the early 1970s it was decided to establish an air component to serve the requirements of ...