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• Molecular Flow of Gases (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1956), by Gordon N. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abriss der Strömungslehre (second edition, in German; Gottingen: Gottingen University Press, 2017), by Ludwig Prandtl (PDF at Gottingen University Press)
• Aerodynamic Design Guidelines and Computer Program for Estimation of Subsonic Wind Tunnel Performance (Washington: NASA, 1976), by William T. Eckert and Kenneth W. Mort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Airplane Aerodynamics (third edition; New York et al.: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1961), by Daniel O. Dommasch, Sydney S. Sherby, and Thomas F. Connolly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Interaction and Breakdown Characteristics of Slender-Wing Vortices at Subsonic, Transonic, and Supersonic Speeds (NASA Technical Paper 3114; 1991), by Gary E. Erickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of Practical Aerodynamics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1936), by Bradley Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engineering Aerodynamics (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1928), by Walter S. Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural Aerodynamics (New York et al.: Pergamon Press, c1958), by R. S. Scorer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight, by Theodore A. Talay (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• NASA SC(2)-0714 Airfoil Data Corrected for Sidewall Boundary-Layer Effects in the Langley 0.3-Meter Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel (NASA technical paper 2890, 1989), by Renaldo V. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Flow of Gases Through Beds of Broken Solids (Bureau of Mines bulletin #307; Washington: GPO, 1929), by C. C. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles and Practice of Flow Meter Engineering (seventh edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1949), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• NASA SC(2)-0714 Airfoil Data Corrected for Sidewall Boundary-Layer Effects in the Langley 0.3-Meter Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel (NASA technical paper 2890, 1989), by Renaldo V. Jenkins (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)

• Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Interaction and Breakdown Characteristics of Slender-Wing Vortices at Subsonic, Transonic, and Supersonic Speeds (NASA Technical Paper 3114; 1991), by Gary E. Erickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kinematics of Vorticity (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1954), by C. Truesdell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vortex Tubes: A Bibliography (Livermore, CA: University of California Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1964), by Brigitta Dobratz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wind- und Wasserhosen in Europa (in German; Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1917), by Alfred Wegener
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated transcription: PDF files in Germany

• The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado (c1913), by Logan Marshall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Wind- und Wasserhosen in Europa (in German; Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1917), by Alfred Wegener
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated transcription: PDF files in Germany

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