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The Spinning of Aeroplanes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

L. W. Bryant  and
S. B. Gates
L. W. Bryant
Affiliation:
The National Physical Laboratory
S. B. Gates
Affiliation:
The Royal Aircraft Establishment
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Extract

We should like to preface our essay on the subject of spinning by mentioning the circumstances under which our investigations were carried out and the sources of our information. The Panel of the Aeronautical Research Committee which has been appointed to deal with all questions connected with the stability and control of aeroplanes was requested in 1924 to consider the urgent problems connected with the alarming accidents due to certain machines failing to retover from a spin. After the issue of a preliminary report on the situation by the Panel, the writers of this paper were asked to go into the whole question as far as existing information from full-scale and wind tunnel experiments would permit. We have had ready access to all available data, coming chiefly from Farnborough on the full-scale side, and from the N.P.L. on the model side.

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Proceedings
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 199 , July 1927 , pp. 619 - 688
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1927

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Note on page 619 * Unpublished.

Note on page 624 * It is found that λ increases in general with a1

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