Liberator wind tunnel tests

[Franek Grabowski]

Hello
Does anyone have wind tunnel test results for B-24 Liberator or know where to look for them? NASA archive presumably?
Thanks

[Bill Walker]

Hi Franek;

try Googling for "NACA reports". I have found several interesting documents this way.

[Bruce Dennis]

Franek,
I think you will find that at that time the official body responsible for setting industry standards was National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA as it was known. NASA came much later. Most of NACA was dedicated to theoretical research, not producing an end product (like NASA).

It is very possible that Consolidated engineers carried out the tests using NACA facilities, or that Consolidated had their own wind tunnel. If that is what happened, Consolidated then would have had the results for their own purposes, and it is possible that NACA would not have been entitled to keep them: they were not the all-powerful organisation that NASA became.

I believe Consolidated used a lot of wind tunnel time on the B-36. The wing on that aircraft, and the earlier PBY, then the B-24, all had a very similar thick cross section.

Anyway, if the results were handed to NACA, they may have survived in the US National Archives.


Hope this helps,

Bruce

(Bill posted while I was writing this)

[Franek Grabowski]

I am afraid it is not there or I cannot find it. Google search provides lots of results describing those tests, but I cannot nail down the report itself. Finding Davis airfoil characteristics was a hard nut as well.
Me too was writing.
Yes, I know that NACA turned NASA, but finding no information on their site, I am not sure where else to look.

[Bruce Dennis]

Franek,
You might find some of these interesting.

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=0&...chall&Ntt=B-24

Bruce

[Revi16]

I may be able to help,

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=15094

You can PM me with what information you are trying to find.

Regards,
Mike

[Franek Grabowski]

Mike
I will drop you an email, but I am not sure if it will be any feasible.
Meanwhile, I have found that C-V archive is at San Diego AM. I need to get through their catalogue, first search providing no results.