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• Pressure and heat-transfer distribution on the afterbody of a lifting Mercury-type capsule at Mach number 15 in helium / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1963), by Joseph G. Marvin and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Static longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics at a Mach number of 10.03 of low-aspect-ratio wing-body configurations suitable for reentry / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1962), by Lawrence E. Putnam, Cuyler W. Brooks, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enhancing U.S. competitiveness : NASA hypersonics research and wind tunnel programs : hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, March 15, 1994. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1994), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental data on stagnation-point gas injection cooling on a hemisphere-cone in a hypersonic arc tunnel / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Office of Technical Services, Department of Commerce [distributor], 1964), by John E. Grimaud, Leonard C. McRee, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A preliminary theoretical study of the expansion tube, a new device for producing high-enthalpy short-duration hypersonic gas flows/ (Washington, D. C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 1962), by Robert L. Trimpi and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of vibrational nonequilibrium on the inviscid design of an axisymmetric nozzle for hypersonic flow / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1975), by John Benjamin Anders and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of a continuous flow electromagnetic alternating current traveling wave accelerator for high-density, hypervelocity wind tunnel applications, ([Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, 1967), by John A. Thornton, Alan S. Penfold, and Gerald R. Seemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ames M-50 helium tunnel / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration : [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1970), by Joseph H. Kemp, Ames Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Effect of geometric modifications on the maximum lift-drag ratios of slender wing-body configurations at hypersonic speeds / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration : [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1966), by William J. Small, Mitchel H. Bertram, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Simulation of blunt body pressure distributions ([Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Research and Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, 1966]), by S. L. Petrie and G. M. Gregorek (page images at HathiTrust)
• A summary of similitude studies for high enthalpy hypersonic test facilities ([Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Research and Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, 1966]), by S. L. Petrie and G. M. Gregorek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instrumentation studies for plasma jet and hypersonic wind tunnel, ([Lafayette, Ind., Purdue University, School of Aeronautical Engineering, 1959]), by William W. Hill and Paul E. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A variable atmosphere hypersonic wind tunnel for similitude studies ([Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Research and Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, 1966]), by G. M. Gregorek and S. L. Petrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heat-transfer measurements on a low-fineness-ratio cylinder at a mach number of 10.4 and angles of attack from 0° to 90° / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information [distributor], 1967), by Philip E. Everhart and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computational method to predict thermodynamic, transport, and flow properties for the modified Langley 8-foot high-temperature tunnel / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1992), by S. Venkateswaran, Ramadas K. Prabhu, L. Roane Hunt, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operating characteristics of the Langley Mach 10 high Reynolds number helium tunnel / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1974), by Ralph D. Watson, Michael C. Fischer, Dana J. Morris, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparison of thin-film resistance heat-transfer gages with thin-skin transient calorimeter gages in conventional hypersonic wind tunnels / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1981), by Charles G. Miller, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamic characteristics at Mach number 0.2 of a wing-body concept for a hypersonic research airplane / ([Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1978), by James L. Dillon, Theodore R. Creel, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transition fixing for hypersonic flow / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, [1967]), by James R. Sterrett and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spectroscopic analysis of electron-beam-induced fluorescence in hypersonic helium flow / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration : [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151], 1970), by Mervin E. Hillard, Richard W. Storey, Stewart L. Ocheltree, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Velocity measurements in the Langley 1-foot (0.305-meter) hypersonic arc tunnel / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, [1966]), by Roy James Duckett, Daniel I. Sebacher, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wind-tunnel investigation at Mach numbers from 3.0 to 6.8 of the static aerodynamic characteristics of modified Mercury exit and escape capsule configurations / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Albin O. Pearson, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and calibration of the Langley hypersonic CF₄ tunnel : a facility for simulating low [gamma] flow as occurs for a real gas / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1985), by Raymond E. Midden, Charles G. Miller, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mach 4 free-jet tunnel-starting experiments for a hypersonic research engine model causing high blockage / (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1976), by George T. Carson, Raymond E. Midden, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Design and performance of the University of Michigan 6.6-inch hypersonic wind tunnel / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service], 1975), by James L. Amick, Langley Research Center, and University of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Method for obtaining aerodynamic data on hypersonic configurations with scramjet exhaust flow simulation / (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service, 1977), by William R. Hartill and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of a 2-foot hypersonic facility at the Langley Research Center / (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [1961]), by George M. Stokes and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free-stream electron concentration in an arc-heated wind tunnel and correlation of Langmuir probe and microwave interferometer measurements / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [Springfield, Va. : For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, 1969]), by Roy James Duckett, William Linwood Jones, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some aspects of air-helium simulation and hypersonic approximations / (Washington : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [1959]), by Eugene S. Love, Mitchel H. Bertram, Arthur Henderson, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental operating performance of a single-stage annular air ejector / (Washington, [D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by Robert R. Howell and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• A spectrographic analysis of a 1-foot hypersonic-arc-tunnel airstream using an electron beam probe / (Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1964), by Daniel I. Sebacher, Roy J. Duckett, Langley Research Center, and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heat transfer on a flat plate in continuum to rarefied hypersonic flows at Mach numbers of 19.2 and 25.4, (Washington, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; [for sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.], 1970), by Henry T. Nagamatsu, R. E. Sheer, W. T. Pettit, and General Electric Company. Research and Development Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pursuit of power : NASA's Propulsion Systems Laboratory, No. 1 & 2 /, by Robert S. Arrighi and United States. NASA History Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hypersonic facility of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and its application to problems of hypersonic flight /, by Antonio Ferri, Paul A. Libby, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command. sponsor, Wright Air Development Center issuing body, and Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performance capability of the NOL hypersonic tunnel /, by Frank P. Baltakis and Md.) Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cold flow field experimental study associated with a two-dimensional multiple nozzle /, by Jerry L. Wagner and Md.) Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak (page images at HathiTrust)
• NOL hypervelocity wind tunnel, report. (White Oak, 1971-), by Md.) Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak, W. J. Glowacki, and E. L. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Status of Sandia Laboratory hypersonic facilities /, by R. C. Maydew, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Sandia Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• NOL hypersonic tunnel no. 4 /, by James E Danberg, Francis W. Brown, Ada P. Jackson, Robert T. Schroth, and Md.) Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sonic throat method and real gas one-dimensional flow : an application to air and nitrogen /, by Richard L. Humphrey, Jerry L. Wagner, and Md.) Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak (page images at HathiTrust)
• NOL mach 18 hypervelocity research tunnel / (Ft. Belvoir Defense Technical Information Center, 29 AUG 1974), by Ray H. Cornett, Alton G Keel, and Md.) Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of dynamic stability derivatives of vehicles flying at hypersonic velocity /, by Arthur Gilmore, Donald Mackenzie, Vladimir Seredinsky, issuing agency United States. Air Force. Systems Command. Aeronautical Systems Division, and sponsor Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The High-Temperature Hypersonic Gasdynamics Facility estimated Mach number 6 through 14 performance / (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Directorate of Engineering Test, Deputy for Test and Support, Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, [1963]), by Paul Czysz and issuing body United States. Air Force. Systems Command. Aeronautical Systems Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• A theoretical analysis of a new type of heater for an intermittent hypersonic wind tunnel /, by Antonio Ferri, Victor Zakkay, Paul A. Libby, sponsor United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, and issuing body Wright Air Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn hypersonic facility : (an interim report on Contract AF 33(616)-17 for the period 15 January 1952 to 31 July 1955) /, by Antonio Ferri, Victor Zakkay, Martin H. Bloom, Paul A. Libby, sponsor United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, issuing body Wright Air Development Center, and sponsor Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Development of a small Mach 10 hypersonic wind tunnel /, by Neil A. Zarin, I. E. Vas, United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research. issuing body, and Princeton University. Department of Aeronautical Engineering. sponsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the overall problems of the true-temperature, hypersonic wind tunnel having semi-continuous operation and the preferred methods of solution. ([Lafayette, Ind., Purdue University, School of Aeronautical Engineering, 1959]), by George M. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recent developments connected with the hypersonic facility of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Pt. I: Tests of the compression heater. Pt. II: Aspects of the design, construction and installation of a multiple-outlet collector for the convection heater /, by Sergio R. Panunzio, Aerospace Medical Laboratory. sponsor, sponsor United States. Wright Air Development Division, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command. issuing body, and sponsor Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dynamic stability characteristics of a 10-deg cone at Mach number 20 /, by R. H. Urban, R. J. Shanahan, Inc. sponsor ARO, Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.). sponsor, and Arnold Engineering Development Center. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captive trajectory system for AEDC supersonic wind tunnel (A) and hypersonic wind tunnels (B) and (C) /, by T. D. Buchanan, W. A. Crosby, United States. Air Force. Arnold Air Force Base. sponsor, Arnold Engineering Development Center. issuing body, and Calspan Field Services. sponsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flow visualization techniques for use in hypersonic wind tunnels /, by R. W. Rhudy, Inc. ARO, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low-density hypervelocity wind tunnel diffuser performance /, by M. W. Milligan, J. F. Bailey, Knoxville. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering niversity of Tennessee, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Towards high-Reynolds number quiet flow in hypersonic tunnels /, by Doyle D. Knight, Hadassah Naiman, sponsor Rutgers University. Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and issuing body United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparison of hotshot tunnel force, pressure heat-transfer and shock shape data with shock tunnel data /, by E. E. Edenfield, Inc. ARO, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of initial static pressure probe measurements in a low-density hypervelocity wind tunnel /, by David E. Boylan, Inc. ARO, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laser-Raman flow-field diagnostics of two large hypersonic test facilities /, by W. D. Williams, L. L. Price, H. M. Powell, D. A. Wagner, Inc. ARO, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sting interference effects as determined by measurements of dynamic stability derivatives, surface pressure, and base pressure for Mach numbers 2 through 8 /, by Bob L. Uselton, Frederick B. Cyran, Inc. ARO, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inviscid and viscous hypersonic nozzle flow with finite rate chemical reactions /, by E. S. Levinsky, Jerome James Brainerd, sponsor General Dynamics Corporation. Astronautics Division, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low-density boundary-layer modulation by suction in a hypersonic nozzle /, by M. Kinslow, J. Leith Potter, M. R. Busby, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body, and Inc. ARO (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chemical kinetic regimes of hypersonic flight simulation /, by Donald J. Harney, Arnold Engineering Development Center. sponsor, and United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• The High temperature hypersonic gasdynamics facility /, by Robert W. Milling, sponsor United States. Air Force. Systems Command. Aeronautical Systems Division, and issuing agency United States. Air Force. Systems Command (page images at HathiTrust)
• The high temperature heater and evaporative film cooling of nozzle throat sections of the Rosemount Aeronautical Laboratories' hypersonic facility /, by Rudolf Hermann, Walter L. Melnik, Hans Leitinger, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command. issuing body, Wright Air Development Center sponsor, sponsor Rosemount Aeronautical Laboratories, and sponsor University of Minnesota. Institute of Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental studies of high temperature hypersonic diffusers /, by Richard T. Smith, United States. Air Force. Systems Command. issuing body, and Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.). sponsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary of instrumentation development and aerodynamic research in a hypersonic shock tunnel., by Charles E. Wittliff, Merle R. Wilson, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command. issuing body, Wright Air Development Center sponsor, and sponsor Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Force and pressure tests of two elliptic ogive body shapes at Mach numbers 5, 6, and 8 /, by Jack L. Burk, Inc. sponsor ARO, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command. sponsor, and Arnold Engineering Development Center. issuing body (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development and testing of a new optimum design code for hypersonic wind tunnel nozzles, including boundary layer, turbulence, and real gas effects /, by Ralph C. Tolle, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories. issuing body, and Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.). sponsor (page images at HathiTrust)

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