Various - Collection of papers on Aerodynamics - War Office Translations

VARIOUS.

Collection of papers on Aerodynamics.

London: The War Office, no date [circa 1937].

WAR OFFICE TRANSLATIONS. Quarto (35 x 24cm), pp.15, pp.18, pp.28, pp.11, pp.19, pp.20, pp.15. Six typewritten translations from French and Italian papers on aerodynamics, contained within a green Perry & Co., Instantaneous Binder. Undated but presumably 1937/38. The papers consist of:

Carlo Ferrari: The aerodynamic Field for Supersonic Velocities Around a Revolving Solid with Pointed Nose.

Carlo Ferrari: Fields of a Supersonic Current around Revolving Solids.

Professor Luigi Crocco: Characteristics of a Supersonic Gaseous Flow around a Dihedral Nose.

M. W. Margoulis & M. M. d'Ocagne: Aerodynamic Wind-tunnel for Testing High Velocity  Models.

Anonymous: New Researches on Air Resistance, Wave and Wake Resistance.

Anonymous: Wake Resistance.

Some annotation throughout, paperstock toned, sometimes quite heavily. Light wear. An interesting collection. Very good.