Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory Projects

[hesham]

Hi,

In 1962,the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory studied a Lifting VTOL propellers
and ground effect project,what was it ?.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822019293950&view=1up&seq=1

 

[hesham]

I don't know direct link to this,

but what was those ?.

 

[hesham]

From Bernard Collection,

what was this ?

 

[Apophenia]

From Bernard Collection,

what was this ?

The guy to search is Robert (R. G.) Loewy who was at CAL in 1949-1952 and again in 1954-1957. It was Loewy who first applied unsteady airfoil theory to rotor blades. Apparently, this was prompted, in part, by problems with the Hughes XH-17 Sky Crane.

https://archive.org/stream/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110014589/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110014589_djvu.txt

 

[hesham]

From this report.

 

[hesham]

From Interavia 1958

 

[hesham]

From Interavia 1968/2

 

[hesham]

Also from Technika Lotnicza 1968