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• Measurement of Blast-Induced Ground Vibrations and Seismograph Calibration (report of investigations #8506; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Mark S. Stagg and Alvin J. Engler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Manhattan Engineer District (Gutenberg text)

• Flight-Determined Aerodynamic Properties of a Jet-Augmented, Auxiliary-Flap, Direct-Lift-Control System Including Correlation With Wind-Tunnel Results (NASA Technical Note D-5128, corrected copy; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969), by L. Stewart Rolls, Anthony M. Cook, and Robert C. Innis
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fluid-Dynamic Drag: Practical Information on Aerodynamic Drag and Hydrodynamic Resistance (revised and expanded from author's 1951 "Aerodynamic Drag"; Midland Park, NJ: The author, 1958), by Sighard F. Hoerner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flight-Determined Aerodynamic Properties of a Jet-Augmented, Auxiliary-Flap, Direct-Lift-Control System Including Correlation With Wind-Tunnel Results (NASA Technical Note D-5128, corrected copy; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969), by L. Stewart Rolls, Anthony M. Cook, and Robert C. Innis
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Flight-Determined Aerodynamic Properties of a Jet-Augmented, Auxiliary-Flap, Direct-Lift-Control System Including Correlation With Wind-Tunnel Results (NASA Technical Note D-5128, corrected copy; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969), by L. Stewart Rolls, Anthony M. Cook, and Robert C. Innis
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• V/STOLAND Avionics System Flight-Test Data on a UH-1H Helicopter (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1980), by Fredric A. Baker, Dean N. Jaynes, Lloyd D. Corliss, Sam Liden, Robert B. Merrick, and Daniel C. Dugan
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Elements of Propeller and Helicopter Aerodynamics (New York: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1953), by Daniel O. Dommasch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Airmobility, 1961-1971 (Washington: Department of the Army, 1999), by John J. Tolson (PDF at US Army CMH)

• On a Steel Horse I Ride: A History of the MH-53 Pave Low Helicopters in War and Peace (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2012), by Darrel D. Whitcomb (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• A Computer Program for the Determination of the Acoustic Pressure Signature of Helicopter Rotors Due to Blade Thickness (NASA Technical Memorandum X-3323; 1976), by Gerald H. Mall, F. Farassat, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Ways: Tiltrotor Aircraft and Magnetically Levitated Vehicles (OTA-SET-507; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• A Computer Program for the Determination of the Acoustic Pressure Signature of Helicopter Rotors Due to Blade Thickness (NASA Technical Memorandum X-3323; 1976), by Gerald H. Mall, F. Farassat, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trandes: A Fortran Program for Transonic Airfoil Analysis or Design (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977), by Leland A. Carlson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Experimental Results of a Heat-Transfer Study from a Full-Scale Pebble-bed Heater (NASA Technical Note D-265; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Richard B. Lancashire, Erwin A. Lezberg, and James F. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hypersonic Technology for Military Application (1989), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Engineering Supersonic Aerodynamics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1950), by Everard Arthur Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vector Polar Method for Shock Interactions With Area Disturbances (technical note DR 4; Berkeley: University of California, 1959), by Antoni K. Oppenheim and Paul A. Urtiew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind-Tunnel Investigation at Supersonic Speeds of a Canard-Controlled Missile with Fixed and Free-Rolling Tail Fins (NASA Technical Paper 1316; 1978), by A. B. Blair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tables of Supersonic Flow Around Cones (technical report #1, 1947), by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center of Analysis Computing Section, contrib. by Zdeněk Kopal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Project Daedalus (c1991), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• Toward Mach 2: The Douglas D-558 Program (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1999), ed. by J. D. Hunley
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• U.S. Supersonic Commercial Aircraft: Assessing NASA's High Speed Research Program, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Heating and Ventilating (full serial archives)

• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theory and Design of Steam and Gas Turbines (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954), by John F. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials: Trends and Opportunities (1996), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Control of Aircraft and Missile Powerplants: An Introduction to the Analysis and Design of Engine Control Systems (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1963), by Albert J. Sobey and Alfred M. Suggs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spontaneous Oxidation and Combustion of Sulfide Ores in Underground Mines: A Literature Survey (information circular 8775; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1978), by Donald J. Ninteman
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Fundamentals of Stress Analysis (second edition; Los Angeles: Aero Publishers, 1960), by Albert Deyarmond and Albert Arslan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Translation of The Stability of Elastic Equilibrium (uncredited translator; technical report AFFDL-TR-70-25; 1970), by W. T. Koiter (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962), by Joseph Marin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A.C.S.R. Graphic Method for Sag-Tension Calculations (Pittsburgh: Aluminum Company of America, 1927), by Theodore Varney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stresses in Aircraft and Shell Structures (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1956), by Paul Kuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Theory for the Effect of Mean Stress on Fatigue of Metals Under Combined Torsion and Axial Load or Bending (1958), by William N. Findley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torsion Analysis of Rolled Steel Sections (New York: Bethlehem Steel Corp., 1963), by Conrad P. Heins and P. A. Seaburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Engineering Properties of Clay Shales, Report 2: Residual Shear Strength and Classification Indexes of Clay Shales (Vicksburg, MS: Dept. of Defense, Dept. of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Soils and Pavements Laboratory, 1974), by Frank C. Townsend and Paul A. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vector Polar Method for Shock Interactions With Area Disturbances (technical note DR 4; Berkeley: University of California, 1959), by Antoni K. Oppenheim and Paul A. Urtiew (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Decay of Plane Shock Waves (Ballistic Research Laboratories report #423, 1943), by S. Chandrasekhar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effects of Federal Policies on Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation: A Contribution Towards a System of Aviation, Compiled from the Results of Numerous Experiments Made by O. and G. Lilienthal (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911), by Otto Lilienthal, trans. by A. W. Isenthal, contrib. by Gustav Lilienthal
  • page images at lindahall.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Torsion Analysis of Rolled Steel Sections (New York: Bethlehem Steel Corp., 1963), by Conrad P. Heins and P. A. Seaburg (page images at HathiTrust)