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Annual report - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915)

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics · Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off · leaf 508

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ons of the engine and flashed a light in a standard photographic type recording instrument. These light flashes were recorded on a moving film as a series of dots and knowing the film speed enabled the computation of engine revolutions per minute. Film speed was determined from timing lines placed… … The photographic records of all of the above instruments were synchronized by means of timing lines placed simultaneously on all the records at definite time intervals by an N. A. C . A. timer. (Reference 4.) Flight Tests. — Preliminary tests were made in level flight to determine the airworthiness…

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