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1943
ORIGINALLY ISSUED
January 1943 as
Memorandm Report
WASHINGTON
NACA WARTIME REPORTS a r e reprints of papers originally issued t u provide rapid distribution of
advance research results to an authorized group requiring them for the w a r effort. They were pre-
viously held under a security status but are now unclassified. Some of these reports were not tech-
nically edited. A l l have been reproduced without change in order to expedite general distribution.
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The r e s u l t s of f l i g h t i n v e s t i g a t i o n s showed that
a beT7910d t r a i l i n g - e d g e a i l e r o n gave as l o w o r a l o w e r
contrary t o t h e g e n e r a l e x p e c t a t i o n , i t was f e l t
desirable t o conduct a wilid-tumel i n v e s t i g a t i o n of a
s c a l e model o f the wing section used i n flight. Section
p r o f i l e d r s g and section l i f t a t f l i g h t i",eyilolds numbers
were t o be obtained with t h e two t y p e s o f ailerons.
S e c t i m 3 r o f i l e d r n e and l i f t c c e f f l c i e n t s at i f e j n o l d s
numbers of a?proximately 6 , 0 0 0 ~ ~ 0 0 ,9,OOO,OOO, and
l3,OOOYClOO a r e preser,ted herein from t h e t e s t s Tn t h e WACA
t w o - d i m n s i o n a l 'low-turbulence p r e s s u r e t u n n e l .
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