A Summary of the Longitudinal and Lateral Stability and Control Characteristics Obtained from Rocket-model Tests of a Swept-wing Fighter-type Airplane at Mach Numbers from 0.5 to 1.9
This is a 1957 NASA technical report, a summary of stability and control tests run on rocket-driven models of a swept-wing fighter aircraft across Mach 0.5 to 1.9, written for aeronautical engineers and researchers. The pictures are plain engineering plots: grid-paper graphs with hand-drawn curves and scattered data points for lift-curve slope, pressure ratio over time, and damping parameters, in black ink on cream paper. A designer could take from them the restrained grid-and-curve vocabulary of mid-century technical charts.
