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Methods of Measuring Aircraft Performances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2017

H.T. Tizard
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The accurate testing of aeroplanes is one of the many branches of aeronauticswhich have been greatly developed during the war, and especially during the last year. For some months after the war began a climb to 3,000 to 5,000 feet by aneroid and a run over a speed course was considered quite a sufficient test of a new aeroplane ; now we all realise that for military reasons certainly, and probably for commercial reasons in the future, it is the performance of a machine at far greater heights with which we are mainly concerned.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 82 , June 1917 , pp. 108 - 122
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1917

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Note on page 110 * 6,500 feet is introduced as corresponding roughly to the French test height of 2,000 metres. 10,000 feet similarly corresponds roughly to comparing aeroplane test performances to the French standard of 3,000 metres, and similarly for 13,000 and 16,500 feet.