Melvin N. Gough Papers (1919-71)

Ms87-057, 22.0 cu. ft.

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Contents List:

Box 1

• Folder 1: "Report of Flight Test on Moss Supercharger" [1919]
• Folder 2: Miscellaneous photographs [ca. 1920-29]
• Folder 3: Spoiler-Aileron control system [1921-1926]
• Folder 4: "Fifty Hour Endurance Test on Liberty Twelve (1921 model) Aviation Engine" [1922]
• Folder 5: "Investigation of a Pressure-Type Fog Landing device" (Carroll and Crowley) [1922]
• Folder 6: "Standard Method of Engine Calculations" (Caminez and Iseler) [1922]
• Folder 7: "Control of Aeroplanes at Low Speeds" (Jones)[1923]
• Folder 8: Official Performance Test of Curtiss NBS-4 Equipped with two 400 HP Liberty Twelve Engines [1924]
• Folder 9: "World Cruise Liberty Engine Performance" [1924]
• Folder 10: "Aeronautique militaire" (Letournernir) [ca. 1925]
• Folder 11: Chapter V of "Airplane Design"--The Prediction of Performance [1925]
• Folder 12: N.A.C.A. reports [1925]
• Folder 13: Notes on the Measurement of Maximum Level Flight Speed of an Airplane" (Vensel) [1925]
• Folder 14: Official Performance Test of Atlantic DH4M-2 Equipped with Liberty Twelve Engine [1925]
• Folder 15: "Report on Part V--Appendix to Airplane Design"[1925]
• Folder 16: "Report on Part VI--Appendix to Airplane Design" [1925]
• Folder 17: "The Spinning of Aeroplanes" (Bryant, advance proof) [1927]
• Folder 18: "A Warning Concerning the Takeoff with Heavy Load" (Reid and Carroll) [1927]
• Folder 19: Sketches of airplanes [1927-1929]
• Folder 20: "The Formation of Ice Upon Exposed Parts of an Airplane in Flight" (Carroll and McAvoy) [1928]
• Folder 21: "The Effect of Fillets Between Wings and Fuselage on the Drag and Propulsive Efficiency of an Airplane" (Gough) [1928]
• Folder 22: N.A.C.A. reports [1928]
• Folder 23: Cowling [1928-1930]
• Folder 24: "Adoption of the N.A.C.A. Low Drag Cowling..." [1929]
• Folder 25: Daily log sheets [1929]
• Folder 26: "Notes on the Design of the N.A.C.A. Cowling" [1929]
• Folder 27: "Report on N.A.C.A. Low Drag Cowling" (Carroll) [1929]
• Folder 28: "Spiral Tendency in Blind Flying" (Carroll and McAvoy) [1929]
• Folder 29: XF7C-1--data and photos [1929]
• Folder 30: Speed courses--use and data [1929-1936]
• Folder 31: Blind flying [1929-1938]
• Folder 32: Address book [1930]
• Folder 33: "Comparative Performance Obtained with XF70-1 Airplane Using Several Different Engine Cowlings (Shey, Johnson, Gough) [1930]
• Folder 34: Daily log sheets [1930]
• Folder 35: "Effect of the Angular Position of the Section of a Ring Cowling on the High-Speed of an XF7C-1 Airplane" (Gough) [1930]
• Folder 36: Effect of humidity on engine performance [1930]
• Folder 37: Fairchild comparison tunnel [1930]
• Folder 38: "Fire and Life Safety in Aviation" [1930]
• Folder 39: N.A.C.A. reports [1930]
• Folder 40: Miscellaneous photographs [ca. 1930-39]
• Folder 41: Miscellaneous publications [1930-39]
• Folder 42: Names and addresses [1930-1950]
• Folder 43: Aviation engine log book--McDonnell O2U-1 F-22 #60 [1931]
• Folder 44: Daily log [1931]
• Folder 45: Directional stability [1931]
• Folder 46: Instruments--memo [1931]
• Folder 47: "...Low-Drag Cowling for Radial Air-Cooled Engines" (McAvoy, Shey, Young) [1931]
• Folder 48: N.A.C.A. reports [1931]

Box 2

• Folder 1: Report on a flight of an NSC-2 airplane [1931]
• Folder 2: XSL-1--report [1931]
• Folder 3: "Variation in Pressure in the Cabin of an Airplane in Flight" (Gough) [1931]
• Folder 4: McDonnell test [1931-1932]
• Folder 5: Smoke flow research [1931-1932]
• Folder 6: "The Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Model Wing..." (Weick and Harris) [1932]
• Folder 7: Daily log [1932]
• Folder 8: "Methods of Visually Determining the Air Flow Around Airplanes" (Gough and Johnson) [1932]
• Folder 9: N.A.C.A. reports [1932]
• Folder 10: "The Nature of Air Flow About the Tail of an Airplane in a Spin" (Scudder and Miller) [1932]
• Folder 11: Report of a flight test of a Lockheed Altair type C-23 [1932]
• Folder 12: B.J.-Zapp flight tests [1932]
• Folder 13: National air races [1932-1933]
• Folder 14: "The Physiological Aspects of Aviation" [1933]
• Folder 15: "Study of Factors Affecting the Steady Spin of an Airplane" (Scudder) [1933]
• Folder 16: Visibility measurements [1933]
• Folder 17: BF2C-1--Flight test report [1934]
• Folder 18: Daily log [1934]
• Folder 19: Eaton, Warren--death [1934]
• Folder 20: "A Flight Investigation of the Lateral Control Characteristics of Short Wide Ailerons and Various Spoilers with Different Amounts of Wing Dihedral" (Gough, Soule, Weick) [1934]
• Folder 21: Flight test report on XBF2C-1 airplane [1934]
• Folder 22: N.A.C.A. reports [1934]
• Folder 23: Cruising control--articles [1934-1935]
• Folder 24: Club and technical talks [1934-1944]
• Folder 25: Ice [1934-1939]
• Folder 26: Daily log [1935]
• Folder 27: Hulcher camera [ca. 1935]
• Folder 28: N.A.C.A "Altitude Pressure Tables" [1935]
• Folder 29: N.A.C.A. reports [1935]
• Folder 30: Test report--Amphibian 9401 [1935]
• Folder 31: "Effect of the Angular Position of the Section of a Ring Cowling on the High Speed of an XF7C-1 Airplane" (Gough) [1935]
• Folder 32: Hulcher 70mm High Speed Sequence Camera [ca. 1935]
• Folder 33: "Limitations of the Pilot in Applying Forces to Airplane Controls" (Gough and Beard) [1935]
• Folder 34: Daily log [1936]
• Folder 35: Landing a flapped airplane--correspondence [1936]
• Folder 36: "..Landing Planes Equipped with Wing Flaps" (Gough) [1936]
• Folder 37: "Limitations of the Pilot in Applying Forces to Airplane Controls" (Beard and Gough) [1936]
• Folder 38: N.A.C.A. reports [1936]
• Folder 39: "Full Scale Tests of a New Type N.A.C.A. Cowling" [1936-1937]
• Folder 40: Wing flaps [1936-1937]
• Folder 41: "Action in Flight of the Stall Warning Device as Installed on the J-2 Airplane (Memo to Mr. Crowley) [1937]
• Folder 42: "An Attempt to Improve the Stalling Characteristics of a Low-Wing Monoplane" (Gough) [1937]

Box 3

• Folder 1: "Experiments with a Wing Passageway, Automatic Flaps, and Lateral Control..." (Hall) [1937]
• Folder 2: "Handling Characteristics of Modern Airplanes from a Pilot's Standpoint" (Gough) [1937]
• Folder 3: N.A.C.A. reports [1937]
• Folder 4: Talk on handling characteristics of modern airplanes [1937]
• Folder 5: "Tapered Wings, Tip Stalling, Stall-Control Flap" (Jacobs) [1937]
• Folder 6: Flight notes, memoranda [1937-1940]
• Folder 7: Landing gear [1937-49]
• Folder 8: "Detailed Report of Gusts Encountered While on the XB-15 Flight December 22, 1938" [1938]
• Folder 9: Kellett YG-1B Autogiro--report [1938]
• Folder 10: N.A.C.A. reports [1938]
• Folder 11: "Notes on Stability from the Pilot's Standpoint" (Gough) [1938]
• Folder 12: Brewster fighter tests--correspondence, clippings, photos [1938-1939]
• Folder 13: B-17 and B-15 maneuvers [1938-1942]
• Folder 14: General data [1938-1942]
• Folder 15: Daily log [1939]
• Folder 16: Bell XFL-1 (Aircobra) [ca. 1940]
• Folder 17: N.A.C.A. reports [1940]
• Folder 18: Flying qualities correlation--P-40, XSBA-1, XTBF-1, P- 36A [1940-1943]
• Folder 19: Lilly, Howard--pilot logs [1940-48]
• Folder 20: Personal aircraft [ca 1940-1945]
• Folder 21-24: Miscellaneous photographs [ca. 1940-49]
• Folder 25-26: Miscellaneous publications [ca. 1940-49]
• Folder 27: Pilots--photographs [ca. 1940-55]
• Folder 28: "Measurements of the Flying Qualities of a Piper Cub Airplane [Model J3L-50]" (Gilruth, Gough, Gracey) [1940- 1965]
• Folder 29: "Requirements for Satisfactory Flying Qualities of Airplanes" (Gilruth) [1941-1947]
• Folder 30: "Cerebral Function in Aviation" (Fulton) [1941]
• Folder 31: "Factors Affecting Elevator Control Forces" (Trimble) [1941]
• Folder 32: Flight Test Organization, Procedures and Crew Training (Reed and Milliken) [1941]

Box 4

• Folder 1: N.A.C.A. reports [1941]
• Folder 2: P-51H Mustang Fighter Plane [ca. 1941]
• Folder 3: "Requirements for Satisfactory Flying Qualities of Airplanes" (Gilruth--Typescript and notes) [1941]
• Folder 4: Spitfire VA--test flight, December 27, 1941 [1941]
• Folder 5: XP-51 Airplane [ca. 1941]
• Folder 6: British Hurricane--test flight [1941]
• Folder 7: Martin B-26 [1941-1942]
• Folder 8: P-40 Spitfire [1941-1948]
• Folder 9: Accident analysis--methodology [1941-1956]
• Folder 10: B-18B, B-26--crash photographs [1942]
• Folder 11: "Certain Comments on Cockpits by Jesse W. Lankford" [1942]
• Folder 12: "Comments on Proposed General Specifications for Stability and Control Characteristics of Airplanes" [1942]
• Folder 13: N.A.C.A. reports [1942]
• Folder 14: "New Developments in Simplified Control" (Upson) [1942]
• Folder 15: P-38E [1942]
• Folder 16: Supersonic air flight [1942-1946]
• Folder 17: Diehl, Walter--Correspondence [1942-1959]
• Folder 18: "Altitude Wind Tunnel at AERL" (Witney) [1943]
• Folder 19: Compressibility Notes [ca 1943]
• Folder 20: N.A.C.A. reports [1943]
• Folder 21: P-38F--Flying Qualities [1943]
• Folder 22: "Summary of the Flying Qualities of the Douglas A-20A" [1943]
• Folder 23: Thunderbolt P-47 [1943-1944]
• Folder 24: Helicopters [ca. 1943-1947]
• Folder 25: Helicopter notes [1943-1951]
• Folder 26: Brewster SB2A-1 [1944]
• Folder 27: Daily log [1944]
• Folder 28: Flight instrument research projects [ca 1944]
• Folder 29: Gilruth, Robert R.--confidential letter to [1944]
• Folder 30: Liberator VI take-off tests [1944]
• Folder 31: Mosquito F.B. MK.21 [1944]
• Folder 32: N.A.C.A. reports [1944]
• Folder 33: "Resume of N.A.C.A. Stability and Control Tests of the Bell P-63 Series Airplane" (Johnson) [1944]
• Folder 34: Talk to Patuxent test pilots--Notes on speech and report on joint fighter conference [1944]
• Folder 35: Talk to supervisors [1944]
• Folder 36: Technical report writing [1944]
• Folder 37: Jet propulsion [1944-1953]
• Folder 38: Cockpit photographs [ca. 1945]
• Folder 39: ESMWT Course--Appreciation and Prediction of Flying Qualities [1945]
• Folder 40: Fires in airline accidents--1938-1944 [ca. 1945]
• Folder 41: Fires in non-airline accidents [1945]

Box 5

• Folder 1: "Instrument Flight Trials with a Helicopter Stabilized about each Individual Axis" (Salmirs and Tapscott) [ca. 1945]
• Folder 2: Langley aerial photographs [ca. 1945]
• Folder 3: N.A.C.A. reports [1945]
• Folder 4: "Personal Light Airplanes-Investigation of Stability and Control Problems" [1945]
• Folder 5: XBTK-1 experimental navy divebomber [1945]
• Folder 6: Boundary layer control [1945-1946]
• Folder 7: Miscellaneous phone calls [1945-1946]
• Folder 8: D-558-1 notes, etc. [ca. 1945-1951]
• Folder 9: X-1 correspondence, notes, clippings [1945-51]
• Folder 10: Flight operations summaries [1945-1953]
• Folder 11: Aero Medical Association [1945-1958]
• Folder 12: Hydrodynamics--Seaplanes [1945-1958]
• Folder 13: Daily log [1946]
• Folder 14: "Designing to the New Transport Category Performance Requirements..." [1946]
• Folder 15: G.E. jet propulsion in P-59 airplanes [1946]
• Folder 16: N.A.C.A. reports [1946]
• Folder 17: "Stability and Control Flight Tests on the C-54 G Airplane" [1956]
• Folder 18: Academy of Model Aeronautics [ca. 1946-1950]
• Folder 19: Aircraft stalling [1946-56]
• Folder 20: Aircraft noise reduction [1947]
• Folder 21: Annual inspection of N.A.C.A. Laboratories [1947]
• Folder 22: Boundary layer control [1947]
• Folder 25: Daily log [1947]
• Folder 26: Hughes-Kaiser flying boat [1947]
• Folder 27: Hydrodynamics--Seaplanes [1947]
• Folder 28: Langeweiesche, Wolfgang--articles [ca. 1947]
• Folder 29: N.A.C.A. reports [1947]
• Folder 30: P-80-A--Lateral control and accelerated stall reports [1947]
• Folder 31: "Psychological Aspects of Instrument Display" (U.S. Air Forces Headquarters) [1947]
• Folder 32: Remote control--correspondence [1947]

Box 6

• Folder 1: Scudder, Nathan [1947]
• Folder 2: Flying qualities of transport airplanes [1947-1948]
• Folder 3: Talks [1947-1948]
• Folder 4: Miscellaneous phone calls [1947-1949]
• Folder 5: Muroc operations [1947-49]
• Folder 6: Compressibility [1947-1950]
• Folder 7: X-1 notes and correspondence [1947-1955]
• Folder 8: Handling qualities of airplanes [1947-1955]
• Folder 9: F-80B [1947-56]
• Folder 10: F-48 [1947-1957]
• Folder 11: High altitude and engine supercharging [ca. 1947-1957]
• Folder 12: Airline accident investigations--articles [1947-1960]
• Folder 13: Accident reports [1948]
• Folder 14: Air Transport Symposium--Institute of Aeronautical Sciences [1948]
• Folder 15: Airspeed--Pitot-static and yawmeter head [1948]
• Folder 16: Daily log [1948]
• Folder 17: Douglas D-558-1 accident, Muroc, California, May 3, 1948 [1948]
• Folder 18: Douglas D-558-1 accident--microfilm [1948]
• Folder 19: Douglas D-558-1 accident--photographs [1948]
• Folder 20: Lilly, Howard--death [1948]

Box 7

• Folder 1-2: N.A.C.A. reports [1948]
• Folder 3: White Sands Proving Ground [1948]
• Folder 4: Aircraft estimates [ca. 1948-1951]
• Folder 5: D-558-1,2 airplanes [1948-1952]
• Folder 6: Stall warning devices [1948-1952]
• Folder 7: X-1--articles, clippings, etc.[ca. 1948-1952]
• Folder 8: X-1--memos, photos [ca. 1948-1952]
• Folder 9: XS-3, X-3 [1948-1956]
• Folder 10: Flight accidents and damage [1948-1957]
• Folder 11: High-speed flight problems [1948-1957]
• Folder 12: Lockheed model 12 [ca. 1948-1958]
• Folder 13: Daily log [1949]
• Folder 14: Fire safety [1949]
• Folder 15: Flight program for N.A.C.A. annual inspection [1949]
• Folder 16: N.A.C.A. reports [1949]
• Folder 17: Patrick Henry Airport--dedication [1949]
• Folder 18: Reserve officers employed at N.A.C.A.-Langley [ca. 1949]
• Folder 19: Talks [1949]
• Folder 20: XF-82 incident, Langley Field, 1949 [1949]
• Folder 21: "Notes on Some Recent and Current Aerodynamic Research Work in England" (Kerr) [1949-1951]
• Folder 22: Icarian Flying Club [1949-1952]
• Folder 23: Jets--miscellaneous clippings, etc. [1949-1955]
• Folder 24: Turbo-props vs. turbo-jets [1949-1958]
• Folder 25: Weather conditions and flying problems [1949-62]
• Folder 26: Fire [1949-1963]

Box 8

• Folder 1: "Crash Loads" (Preston); "Crash Impact Survival" [1950]
• Folder 2: Crowley party--photographs [ca. 1950]
• Folder 3: Daily log [1950]
• Folder 4: F-84E-1RE airplane crash, Pitkin, Louisiana, 1950 [1950]
• Folder 5: N.A.C.A. reports [1950]
• Folder 6: Operation Portex [1950]
• Folder 7: "Review and Status Report of a High-Speed Research Airplane Program" (Hartley Soule) [1950]
• Folder 8: Stall warning device, N.A.C.A. memo [1950]
• Folder 9: Talks [1950]
• Folder 10: Flight safety--clippings [ca. 1950-1955]
• Folder 11: Automatic control panel [1950-1952]
• Folder 12: Miscellaneous phone calls [1950-1952]
• Folder 13: MAC service letters [1950-1953]
• Folder 14: Overshoot accidents [1950-1955]
• Folder 15: Helicopter notes [ca. 1950-1957]
• Folder 16: X-15, X-5, X-13 [1950-1958]
• Folder 17: Miscellaneous photographs [ca. 1950-59]
• Folder 18 Miscellaneous publications (folder 1 of 4) [ca. 1950-59]
• Folder 19: Miscellaneous publications (folder 2 of 4) [ca. 1950-59]
• Folder 20: Miscellaneous publications (folder 3 of 4) [ca. 1950-59]

Box 9

• Folder 1: Miscellaneous publications (folder 4 of 4) [ca. 1950-59]
• Folder 2: "Airplane Performance Determination At Velocities Below Critical Mach Number" [1951]
• Folder 3: Avro C-102 [1951]
• Folder 4: Daily log [1951]
• Folder 5: F-9F stalls [1951]
• Folder 6: Flight Safety Conference [1951]
• Folder 7: MIG airplane [1951]
• Folder 8: N.A.C.A. reports [1951]
• Folder 9: Slidable and jettisonable canopies; list of navy aircraft delivered 1941-1945 [1951]
• Folder 10: Boundary layer control [1951-1952]
• Folder 11: Civil Aeronautics Board Resume of U.S. [1951-3]
• Folder 12: Travel insurance policies [1951-1953]
• Folder 13: Inlets [1951-1954]
• Folder 14: Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences [1951-1955]
• Folder 15: Loads [1951-1958]
• Folder 16: B-45 accident [1952]
• Folder 17: "Cockpit Design and Safety" [Stieglitz] [1952]
• Folder 18: Daily log [1952]
• Folder 19: Investigation of a trailing-edge angle-of-attack vane, as stall-sensing device [1952]
• Folder 20: N.A.C.A. Committee on Operating Problems -- minutes [1952]
• Folder 21: N.A.C.A. reports [1952]
• Folder 22: "Some Aspects of Aircraft Accident Prevention" (Stieglitz) [1952]
• Folder 23: Accident Survival Panel--N.A.C.A. Committee on Operating Problems [1952-1953]
• Folder 24: Icing rate meter [1952-1953]
• Folder 25: B-45 crashes [1952-1954]
• Folder 26: Auto-pilot [1952-1955]
• Folder 27: Turbo-jet performance [1952-55]
• Folder 28: B-47 [1952-1956]

Box 10

• Folder 1: Jet engines [1952-1956]
• Folder 2: Jet streams [1952-1956]
• Folder 3: Noise problems [1952-1956]
• Folder 4: Shoulder harness [1952-1956]
• Folder 5: Aero Medical Association [1952-1957]
• Folder 6: Jet transports [1952-1957]
• Folder 7: Aircraft seating [1952-1958]
• Folder 8: Ice [1952-58]
• Folder 9: Temperature instruments [1952-1958]
• Folder 10: Spinning [1952-1968]
• Folder 11: Aircraft accident survival [1953]
• Folder 12: Annual Conference--photographs [1953]
• Folder 13: Daily log [1953]
• Folder 14: Fiftieth anniversary of flight [1953]
• Folder 15: "Flight Research"--memo [ca. 1953]
• Folder 16: Flying saucers [1953]
• Folder 17: N.A.C.A. reports [1953]
• Folder 18: Performance parameters [1953]
• Folder 19: Thrust indicator--talk by Vogelry and Gough [1953]
• Folder 20: Turbojet--water damage [1953]
• Folder 21: Miscellaneous correspondence [1953-54]
• Folder 22: Reliability--clippings and reports [1953-1954]
• Folder 23: Take-off--performance indicators [1953-1954]
• Folder 24: De Haviland Comet [ca. 1953-1955]
• Folder 25: Names and adresses [ca. 1953-1955]
• Folder 26: Crash fires [ca. 1953-1956]
• Folder 27: Ditching [1953-56]
• Folder 28: Speeches [ca. 1953-1957]

Box 11

• Folder 1: Telephone calls [1953-1957]
• Folder 2: Air Safety Digest [1953-1958]
• Folder 3: Cockpit layout standardization [1953-1958]
• Folder 4: Jets--piloting problems [1953-1958]
• Folder 5: Navion, L-17A, Bonanza Airplanes [1953-1958]
• Folder 6: Security [1953-1958]
• Folder 7:: AGARD (Paris)--notebook [1954]
• Folder 8: Air France Super Constellation accident, Idlewild Airport, N.Y. 1954 [1954]
• Folder 9: AGARD Flight Test Manual, Chapter III Draft (Johnson) [1954]
• Folder 10: Daily log [1954]
• Folder 11: Dutch K.L.M. 1049 Lockheed Super-Constellation accident, Shannon, Ireland, 1954 [1954]
• Folder 12: Emergency access devices on pilot enclosures [1954]
• Folder 13: Emergency procedures [1954]
• Folder 14: Felker Heliport, Fort Eustis [1954]
• Folder 15: "Flight Tests of Airplanes Equipped with Irreversible Servo Controls" (Lefebvre) [1954]
• Folder 16: Flight Safety Foundation Conference [1954]
• Folder 17: "High-Speed Stability and Control Problems" (Phillips) [1954]
• Folder 18: Martin Company--visit [1954]
• Folder 19: N.A.C.A. reports [1954]
• Folder 20: Pilot error--clippings [1954]
• Folder 21: "Some Applications of Experiments and Theoretical Analysis in Accident Investigations" (Rhode) [1954]
• Folder 22: Supersonic fighters [1954]
• Folder 23: Thrust--talk presented at operational conference, Cleveland, Ohio, November 17-18, 1954 [1954]
• Folder 24: Thrust-reversal in turbo-propelled aircraft [1954]
• Folder 25: "Turbine Transports" [1954]

Box 12

• Folder 1: Helicopter research projects [1954-55]
• Folder 2: "Jet Instrumentation Problems," "Toward Better Instrumentation" (Gough) [1954-1955]
• Folder 3: Jet thrust reversals; [1954-1955]
• Folder 4: AGARD [1954-1957]
• Folder 5: Air Research and Development Command Flying Safety Newsletters [1954-1957]
• Folder 6: Aviation Medicine Residency Program [1954-1958]
• Folder 7: Tires [1954-1958]
• Folder 8: Jet takeoff safety--reports, correspondence [1954-1961]
• Folder 9: Boeing 707 [ca. 1954-1961]
• Folder 10: Passenger flying--articles [1954-1963]
• Folder 11: Angle-of-attack [ca. 1954-1965]
• Folder 12: Aero Commander 680F--handling qualities [ca. 1955]
• Folder 13: Airframe and engine icing problems [1955]
• Folder 14: "Automatic Control of Gust Response" (Kraft) [1955]
• Folder 15: Boundary layer control [1955]
• Folder 16: Buck, Robert N.--articles [1955]
• Folder 17: Coanda effect [1955]
• Folder 18: Daily log [1955]
• Folder 19: Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences fellowships [1955]
• Folder 20: N.A.C.A. reports [1955]
• Folder 21: "Reliability and Safety as Design Parameters" (Steiglitz) [1955]
• Folder 22: "Report on the Shooting Down of El Al Aircraft 4x- AKC" [1955]
• Folder 23: X-1B, X-1E, D-558-2 rocket research airplanes--photos [1955]
• Folder 24: F-101A [1955-1956]
• Folder 25: Ingestion screens [1955-1956]
• Folder 26: JRF-5 accident [1955-1956]
• Folder 27: Turboprop engines--performance [1955-56]
• Folder 28: Stall warning systems [1955-1957]

Box 13

• Folder 1: Field of view--visibility [1955-1958]
• Folder 2: Vertical take-off aircraft [1955-1963]
• Folder 3: "Analysis of Lift-Curve Slopes Determined in Flight of a Flexible Swept-Wing Jet Bomber" (Aiken and Fisher) [1956]
• Folder 4: "An Analysis of Vertical Tail Loads Measured in Flight on a Swept-Wing Bomber Airplane" (McGowan and Cooney) [1956]
• Folder 5: Boeing XB-47D Stratojets--clippings [1956]
• Folder 6: B-29 D558-2 accident [1956]
• Folder 7: Comparison of F-100 wind tunnel and flight spin [ca. 1956]
• Folder 8: Confederate Air Force [ca. 1956]
• Folder 9: Daily log [1956]
• Folder 10: Eastern Airlines Martin 404 accident, Owensboro, KY, 1956 [1956]
• Folder 11: "Flight Investigation of the Fuselage Deformations on a Swept-Wing Bomber During Push-Pull Maneuvers" (Mayo) [1956]
• Folder 12: Flight Safety Foundation Award [1956]
• Folder 13: Hypoxia and undetermined jet accidents [1956]
• Folder 14: International Civil Aviation Organization Papers [1956]
• Folder 15: "A Modified Matrix Method..." (Gainer and Aiken) [ca. 1956]
• Folder 16-18: N.A.C.A. reports [1956]
• Folder 19: National Aeronautical Laboratory (Japan)--visit [1956]
• Folder 20: Netherlands--maps, etc. [1956]
• Folder 21: "Notes on Correlation of Model and Full-Scale Spin Recovery Characteristics" (Gough) [1956]
• Folder 22: "Tire-Runway Braking Friction Coefficients" (Gough, Sawyer, Trant) [1956]
• Folder 23: Thrustmeter--notes and photos [1956]
• Folder 24: XP6M-1 accident, 1956 [1956]
• Folder 25: "Flight Measurements of Some of the Flying Qualities and Stability Derivatives of the Chance F8U-1 Airplane" (Kraft, McLaughlin, White) [ca. 1956]
• Folder 26: AGARD's views about flight safety and pilot selection" [Bergeret]; pilot error--clippings [1956-1957]
• Folder 27: Flight Safety Foundation--bulletins [1956-1957]
• Folder 28: Reliability--clippings [1956-1957]
• Folder 29: Angle-of-attack [1956-1958]
• Folder 30: Approach and runway lights [1956-1958]

Box 14

• Folder 1: Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences [1956-1958]
• Folder 2: AGARD--material From Dr. G. Bock [1956-1958]
• Folder 3: Skidding [1956-1958]
• Folder 4: Noise [ca. 1956-1959]
• Folder 5: Angle-of-attack instrumentation [ca. 1956-1961]
• Folder 6: Landing problems [ca. 1956-65]
• Folder 7 Helicopters--articles [1956-1970]
• Folder 8: AGARD--Flight Test Panel 7th General Assembly [1957]
• Folder 9: AGARD [1957]
• Folder 10: AGARD General Assembly--Washington, D.C. [1957]
• Folder 11: AGARD--London--clippings, etc. [1957]
• Folder 12: AGARD--London--preliminaries [1957]
• Folder 13: Atkins anti-collision light [1957]
• Folder 14: Av-Cir analysis and photographic report [1957]
• Folder 15: Communication--management [1957]
• Folder 16: Daily log [1957]
• Folder 17: Hiller X-18 tilt wing aircraft, Palo Alto, California, November 11-15, 1957 [1957]
• Folder 18: "Flight and Analog Simulator Studies of an Automatically Controlled Interceptor" (Cheatham and Brissenden) [ca.1957]
• Folder 19: H19B helicopter accident report [1957]
• Folder 20: "Effect of the Proximity of the First Wing Bending..." (Huss and Donegan) [1957]
• Folder 21: N.A.C.A. flight operations aircraft [1957]

Box 15

• Folder 1: N.A.C.A. reports [1957]
• Folder 2: Propjet ski transport [1957]
• Folder 3: SAE Committee S-7 [1957]
• Folder 4: Takeoff progress indicator [1957]
• Folder 5: Tire wear [1957]
• Folder 6: "Understanding and Interpreting Pilot Opinon" (Cooper) [1957]
• Folder 7: AGARD [1957-58]
• Folder 8: F-8-U1 [1957-58]
• Folder 9: Northeast Airliner accident, Riker's Island, New York [1957-58]
• Folder 10: TWA Lockheed 1049A accident, Grand Canyon (1956) [1957-58]
• Folder 11: Lists of files burned [1957-63]
• Folder 12: "Accuracy at the Height of an ILS Glide Slope at the Outer Marker Beacon" [1958]
• Folder 13-14: AGARD [1958]
• Folder 15: AGARD--flight test panel--questionaires [1958]
• Folder 16-18: AGARD--Paris [1958]
• Folder 19: AGARD--travel plans [1958]
• Folder 20: B47 cyclic load tests [1958]
• Folder 21: Boeing DC-3--notes [1958]
• Folder 22: "Control-Fixed Stability Derivatives" (Crane, McGlaughlin, and White) [1958]
• Folder 23: "...Effects of Retreating Blade Stall...Helicopter Rotor Blade" (Ludi) [1958]
• Folder 24: "External Interference Effects..." (Silsby) [1958]
• Folder 25: F-11F-1--accident summary, July 1955-July 1957 [1958]
• Folder 26: Helicopter airlift at Wallops island [1958]
• Folder 27: "IBM Code Heading for Recording Crash Injury and Survival Data from Accidents" (Hasbrook, et al) [ca. 1958]
• Folder 28: International Air Transport Association [1958]
• Folder 29: International Civil Aviation Organization [1958]
• Folder 30: "Landing and Taxiing Tests Over Various Types of Runway Lights" (Dreher and Batterson) [1958]
• Folder 31: Minneapolis--Honeywell Regulator Co.--take-off monitor [1958]
• Folder 32: N.A.C.A. reports [1958]
• Folder 33: New York Airways Sikorsky S-58 Accident [1958]
• Folder 34: "Philosophy of Airworthiness" (Tye); Reliability-- Correspondence [1958]
• Folder 35: "Piloting Research Aircraft" (Walker) [1958]
• Folder 36: "Requirements and Factors Which Influence Precision Landing Approaches" [1958]
• Folder 37: SAE committee S-9 [1958]
• Folder 38: Society of Automotive Engineers--Denver [1958]

Box 16

• Folder 1: Space exploration--articles [1958]
• Folder 2: Take-off monitor [1958]
• Folder 3: Gough, Melvin--vita, list of reports and speeches [1958]
• Folder 4: NASA--Organization [1958-1959]
• Folder 5: "Recommendations Regarding a National Civil Space Program" (NASA Special Committee on Space Technology) [1958-1959]
• Folder 6: Reliability--clippings [1958-1959]
• Folder 7: Correspondence, a-b [1958-1960
• Folder 8: Correspondence, c-d [1958-1960]
• Folder 9: Correspondence, e-f [1958-1960]
• Folder 10: Correspondence, g-h [1958-1960]
• Folder 11: Flight Safety Foundation [1958-1960]
• Folder 12: Instrumentation--Joseph Walker paper, letter [1958- 1960]
• Folder 13: Telephone calls [1958-1960]
• Folder 14: Fires [1958-1962]
• Folder 15: Speeches, writings, miscellaneous articles [1958-1963]
• Folder 16: Alford, William--death [1959]
• Folder 17: American Rocket Society [1959]
• Folder 18: Barbour Award--notices [1959]
• Folder 19: Bomarc and Nike Hercules missiles/air defense [1959]
• Folder 20: Boundary layer control [1959]
• Folder 21: Daily log [1959]
• Folder 22: Events for , August 15-21 [1959]
• Folder 23: Flight Safety Foundation--memo, bulletins, corresondence [1959]
• Folder 24: Flight Safety Foundation--notices and correspondence [1959]
• Folder 25: Glennan, T. Keith--address, June 18, 1959, Republic Research Center [1959]
• Folder 26: Jet Propulsion Lab--contractors meeting, August 21, 1959 [1959]
• Folder 27: Johns Hopkins engineers--Joseph Truman Thompson Fund and Abel Wolman Fund [1959]
• Folder 28: Mercury Project--Congressional reports [1959]
• Folder 29: Official visit to AFMTC; fiscal year 1960-- memorandums, August 15, 1959 [1959]
• Folder 30: NASA--contract cuts [1959]
• Folder 31: NASA statement--research with British scientists [1959]
• Folder 32: "The Pilot's Role in Space Flight" (Westbrook) [1959]
• Folder 33: "The Problem of Escape from Satellite Vehicles" (Carter and Huff) [1959]
• Folder 34: Satellite payload--summary and correspondence [1959]
• Folder 35: SLV-6--progress report #3 [1959]
• Folder 36: SLV-7--progress report [1959]
• Folder 37: "Spotlight on Safety" (Harris) [1959]
• Folder 38: Thor (XSM-75) missile [ca. 1959]
• Folder 39: Vanguard Thor-Able--memo and correspondence [1959]
• Folder 40: Atlantic missile range operations office [1959-1960]
• Folder 41: Flight safety--"Safety in the Jet Age" (Harris) [1959- 1960]
• Folder 42: Symposium--instruments [1959-1960]
• Folder 43: Travel [1959-1960]

Box 17

• Folder 1: American Airlines accident--Laguardia [1959-1961]
• Folder 2: Fire [1959-1963]
• Folder 3: Miscellaneous NASA publications [1959-72]
• Folder 4: "The Accident Investigator's View" (Tweedie) [1960]
• Folder 5: AGARD--Paris [1960]
• Folder 6: Calendar [1960]
• Folder 7: Cleveland Hopkins Airport-crash and rescue operations- -correspondence [1960]
• Folder 8: Crash safety of kerosene vs. aviation grade gasoline [1960]
• Folder 9: Helicopter accident--Chicago [1960]
• Folder 10: Northwest Airlines accident [1960]
• Folder 11: Miscellaneous correspondence [1960]
• Folder 12: "Reliability and Murphy's Law" (Burch); Office of Reliability and Systems Analysis [1960]
• Folder 13: "Satellite Instrumentation for Measurement of the Thermal Radiation Budget of the Earth" (Sucmi and Parent) [ca. 1960]
• Folder 14: U.S. Air Force safety congress, first annual [1960]
• Folder 15: Foreign accidents [1960-1961]
• Folder 16: Insurance [1960-1961]
• Folder 17: Lockheed Electra crashes [1960-1961]
• Folder 18: Lockheed Electra--meetings [1960-1961]
• Folder 19-20: Mid-air collision between TWA Constellation and United DC-8, Staten Island, NY, 1960 [1960- 1961]

Box 18

• Folder 1: Sabena Airlines crash [1960-1961]
• Folder 2: SCAT (Speed Condition-Approach/Takeoff) [1960- 1961]
• Folder 3: Arctic-Pacific Inc., crash--Toledo, Ohio [1960-1962]
• Folder 4: Lockheed Electra crash--Boston [1960-1962]
• Folder 5: Lockheed Electra crash--Boston [1960-1962]
• Folder 6: Reimbursement vouchers [1960-1962]
• Folder 7: UAL-TWA collision--New York [1960-1962]
• Folder 8: Notes and correspondence re talks [1960-1963]
• Folder 9: DC-8 [ca. 1960-1964]
• Folder 10: Miscellaneous notes [1960-1964]
• Folder 11: Gough, Melvin--biographical information [1960-65]
• Folder 12: Miscellaneous photographs [1960-69]
• Folder 13: Miscellaneous publications (folder 1 of 4) [ca. 1960-69]
• Folder 14: Miscellaneous publications (folder 2 of 4) [ca. 1960-69]

Box 19

• Folder 1: Miscellaneous publications (folder 3 of 4) [ca. 1960-69]
• Folder 2: Miscellaneous publications (folder 4 of 4) [ca. 1960-69]
• Folder 3: Altimeter--correspondence and articles [1961]
• Folder 4: American Airlines Electra accidents, 1959 and 1961 [1961]
• Folder 5: Calendar [1961]
• Folder 6: Collisions [1961]
• Folder 7: Delta Airlines flight 744, Jacksonville, Florida, December 2, 1961 [1961]
• Folder 8: "Fatal Airline Accident Investigations--Human Factors Team Approach" (Hopper) [1961]
• Folder 9: Fiat G91 crash investigation [1961]
• Folder 10: Fiat G91 flight testing [1961]
• Folder 11: Lockheed Super-Constellation aircraft HK-177--Report of inquiries and transcription of hearings partial [1961]
• Folder 12: Miscellaneous correspondence [1961]
• Folder 13: "A Scientist Looks at Religion" (Dryden) [1961]
• Folder 14: United Airlines DC-8 accident, Denver, July 11, 1961-- correspondence [1961]
• Folder 15: VTOL-STOL--reports [1961]
• Folder 16: "Women in Space" [1961]
• Folder 17: Boundary layer control [1961-1962]
• Folder 18: Civil Aeronautics Board--accident files [1961-1962]
• Folder 19: Civil Aeronautics Board--accident files [1961-1962]

Box 20

• Folder 1: Correspondence and notes [1961-1962]
• Folder 2: Fire and fuel [1961-1962]
• Folder 3: Military accidents [1961-1962]
• Folder 4: Speeches [1961-1962]
• Folder 5: United Airlines DC-8 accident, Denver, Colorado, July 11, 1961--reports and photos [1961-1962]
• Folder 6: Variation and flutter [1961-1962]
• Folder 7: Fuels [1961-1963]
• Folder 8: Hazard properties of aviation fuels [1961-1963]
• Folder 9: Address to sixth IATA Public Relations Conference (Gough) [1962]
• Folder 10: Altimeter research [1962]
• Folder 11-13: American Airlines Boeing 707 accident, Jamaica Bay, Long Island, 1962 [1962]
• Folder 14: Angle-of-attack--correspondence [1962]
• Folder 15: Arresting gear [1962]
• Folder 16: Calendar [1962]
• Folder 17: Fire [1962]
• Folder 18: "Methodology and Patterns of Research in Aircraft Accidents" (Lederer) [1962]
• Folder 19: Miscellaneous correspondence [1962]
• Folder 20: "Trends in Modern Aircraft Accident Investigation" (Gough) [1962]
• Folder 21: Lightning [1962-1963]
• Folder 22: Haldeman, George--correspondence [1962-64]
• Folder 23: Personnel [ca. 1962-69]
• Folder 24: Tires and runways [1962-1963]
• Folder 25: Consultants--Soule, Sanders [1962-1965]
• Folder 26: Boundary layer control [1963]
• Folder 27: 15th Annual National Aerospace Electronics Conference [1963]
• Folder 28: Flying in turbulence [ca. 1963]
• Folder 29: Flying qualities of modern light planes [1963]
• Folder 30: Institute of Science and Technology Navigation and Guidance Laboratory--meeting summary [1963]
• Folder 31: Manned spacecraft--reliability and quality control [1963]
• Folder 32: Speech by Addison M. Rothrock, at AIAA Space Flight Testing Conference, Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 18-20, 1963 [1963]
• Folder 33: Vortac [1963]
• Folder 34: Vortex [1963]
• Folder 35: Severe turbulence operations testing--articles, reports, flight record data [1963-1964]

Box 21

• Folder 1: Miscellaneous correspondence [1963]
• Folder 2: Mohawk Airlines Flight 112--accident [1963]
• Folder 3: NASA-DOD-FAA SST program coordination statement [1963]
• Folder 4: NWA airplane accident, Miami, Florida, February 2, 1963--correspondence [1963]
• Folder 5: Special Conference on General Aviation Safety [April 25, 1963] [1963]
• Folder 6: Angle-of-attack [1963-1965]
• Folder 7: B-58 accidents [1964]
• Folder 8: Correspondence, notes--Mobile, Alabama [1964]
• Folder 9: F-105 problems and findings--transcript [1964]
• Folder 10: Kenyon Enterprises--Pilot Orientation Instrument [1964]
• Folder 11: Miscellaneous correspondence [1964]
• Folder 12: Paul Rosenberg--physics consultant [1964]
• Folder 13-14: Republic Aviation [1964]
• Folder 15: Specialties Inc., Chromosorter Web Scanner [1964]
• Folder 16: Specialties Inc., Flight tests of angle-of-attack transmitter casod [1961-1963] [1964]
• Folder 17: Turbojet incidents and accidents [1964]
• Folder 18: Turbulence [1964]
• Folder 19: Severe turbulence operations testing--correspondence [1964- 1965]
• Folder 20: X-15 research [1964-1967]
• Folder 21: Douglas C-133 [1965]
• Folder 22: Flight Safety Foundation report, "Loss of Control of Swept-Wing Aircraft" [1965]
• Folder 23: Miscellaneous correspondence [1965]
• Folder 24: Paradise Airlines Lockheed Constellation accident, Zephyr Cove, Nevada, 1964 [1965]
• Folder 25: "Qualitative Stability and Control-Reevaluation of a C- 133A Aircraft" (Johnson and Benfield) [1965]
• Folder 26: "Questions"--notebook [1965]

Box 22

• Folder 1: "Survey of Ocurrences Involving Loss of Control of Swept-Wing Aircraft" (Project "Upset") [1965]
• Folder 2: Edwards--accidents [ca. 1965-1966]
• Folder 3: C-133 airplane [1965-1967]
• Folder 4: NASA flight research center 258-3311-Extension 211 NAS 4-866 [1965-1967]
• Folder 5: Miscellaneous correspondence [1966]
• Folder 6: NASA employment [1966]
• Folder 7: NASA Research Advisory Committee on Aircraft Operating Problems [1966]
• Folder 8: "Numerical Safety Goals" (Steiglitz) [1966]
• Folder 9-11: Flight recorders [ca. 1966-1967]
• Folder 12: Total inflight simulation [1966-1971]
• Folder 13: Apollo accident--clippings, articles [1967]
• Folder 14: Aviation Aircraft accidents--study [1967]
• Folder 15: DC-7 [1967]
• Folder 16: Douglas C-133 [1967-1968]
• Folder 17: Miscellaneous correspondence [1967]
• Folder 18: Pacific Airlines accident, Danville, California, May 7, 1964 [1967-1968]
• Folder 19: Stack, John [1967-1968]
• Folder 20-21: Society of Experimental Test Pilots [1967-1973]
• Folder 22: Economic and Governmental Impact on Safety [1968]
• Folder 23: Litton Industries--consulting contract [1968]
• Folder 24: Manned space flight safety program [1968]
• Folder 25: Miscellaneous correspondence [1968]
• Folder 26: Balloon Platforms, AF--Cambridge Research Labs [1969]
• Folder 27: Miscellaneous correspondence [1969]
• Folder 28: Value Engineering Co. services, Alexandria, Virginia [1969]
• Folder 29: Other jobs [1970]
• Folder 30: Prospective team jobs for NASA, August, 1970 [1970]
• Folder 31: Concorde test flight [1971]
• Folder 32: George Haldeman--SST aircraft [1971]

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