Recent Aeronautic Investigations and the Aeroplane Industry

Abstract

The industries offer better illustrations than the manufacture of aeroplanes of the intimate relation between purely scientific investigations and the practical application of their results. As an example of this fact, attention may be directed to three experimental researches in progress at the laboratories and flying-station of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Virginia. These researches were begun and are being conducted in order to add to our knowledge of the science of aeronautics, but their results are of the utmost importance to the industry and also to the art of aviation. Other illustrations might well have been selected, but these are, in many respects, of “actual” importance. The first research deals with the pressure distribu-wind-tunnel experiments a number of liquid manometers are used.)