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The Cowling and Cooling of Radial Air-Cooled Aircraft Engines*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Rex B. Beisel ,
A. Lewis MacClain  and
F. M. Thomas
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This paper presents the results of co-ordinated research by The Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co. (engines), the Chance Vought Corp. (airplanes), and the U.A.T. Research Division, all subsidiaries of the United Aircraft and Transport Corp. These studies were directed toward improving the performance of airplanes through reducing the drag of radial air-cooled powerplant installations as nearly as possible to the minimum necessary for adequate cooling.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 283 , July 1934 , pp. 613 - 650
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1934

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Footnotes

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This paper was presented at the 1934 Annual Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Detroit. Mr. Beisel is connected with the Chance Vought Corp; Mr. MacClain with The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co.; and Mr. Thomas with the Research Division of the United Aircraft & Transport Corp. Reprinted by kind permission of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and of the authors.

References

Note on Page 614 * See Aircraft Engineering, February, March and April, 1932: The Theory and Practice of Air Cooling, by D. R. Pye.

Note on Page 623 * See S.A.E. Journal, July, 1933, p. 245.

Note on Page 623 † See N.A.C.A. Technical Note No. 429, Aug. 1, 1932: Heat Dissipation from a Finned Cylinder at Different Fin-Plane to Airstream Angles.