Description is given of flight tests conducted on gun fairings, designed to correct the detrimental effects of the projecting and submerged wing guns on an F4F-3 fighter. It was found that the installation of unfaired guns on a clean wing resulted in a premature stall that increased the stalling speed in the carrier-approach and landing conditions of flight by suitably fairing the guns, it was possible to reduce the stalling speeds to values approaching very nearly the clean-wing values.
Flight Investigation of Wing-Gun Fairings on a Fighter Type Airplane
1941
22 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Aircraft guns , Fairings , Fighter aircraft , Stalling , Flight , Wings , Underwater , Landing , Flight testing , Velocity , Value , Ati-20554 , Ati collection
Flight investigation of wing-gun fairings on fighter type airplane
Engineering Index Backfile | 1941
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