Abstract
Inte of the widespread interest in airships, actual experience in their construction and operation is accessible only to a rather limited number of engineers, so that it is not surprising that scientific literature regarding the aerodynamic performance characteristics of airships is scanty and mostly scattered through disconnected monographs, cumbersome to collect and not readily available to the student. It was therefore felt that the General Editor’s desire to include a comprehensive survey of this knowledge in the present series of volumes is eagerly shared by all aeronautical students interested in lighter-than-air craft. The present authors accepted the invitation to contribute to this work with a full realization that they can do only partial justice to the presentation of such a vast and intricate subject.
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References
In addition to the many references supplied directly in connection with the text, the following more general references are given.
The U.S. N.A.C.A. Bibliographies of Aeronautics, and the indices of the Reports, Notes and Memoranda of the N.A.C.A.
The Index of the Reports and Memoranda (R. and M.’s) of the British Aeronautical Research Comittee.
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The two principal British design texts are: Cox, H. R., and Collins, T. S. D., Airship Design, in Handbook of Aeronautics, London 1931.
The two principal British design texts are: Following is a series of references to Wind Tunnel Tests on Airship Models, covering various phases and problems connected with pressure distribution, drag, control, etc.
American
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British
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German
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Italian
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French
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Japanese
The Resistance of the Airship Models Measured in the Wind Tunnels of Japan, Aero. Res. Inst. Tokyo Imp. Univ., No. 15, March 1926.
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Arnstein, K., Klemperer, W. (1936). Performance of Airships. In: Durand, W.F. (eds) Aerodynamic Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91484-3_3
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