Applied Airfoil Theory

Basic aerodynamic theory, as developed in Volume II, Division E of this series, furnishes the broad foundation for further advance in aeronautics, and in its applications to the practical problems of safe and economic air-transport. However, between the development of a broad and general body of theory and its application to the needs of aeronautic industry, there lies a very considerable domain which may properly be called “Applied Aerodynamics” and which must be concerned largely with experimental tests, full scale and model, guided on the one hand by basic theory and on the other by the continuing accumulation of the results of such experimental work.