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JohnB wrote:
I can't imagine a modern day Air Force Chief of Staff being that popular to warrant something like that today.

I've actually had that same thought, but in reference to the B-25 being named after Billy Mitchell.

The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, published a series of 209 "Aircraft Circulars" from March 1926 to November 1937. Generally, each circular is a roughly 10 to 20 page document that described a particular model of airplane and listed specifications along with a three-view drawing. The text of the following list is from an RCGroups.com thread that was lightly edited for formatting and had links inserted:

NACA Aircraft Circulars

However, this is just one category of the multitudes of papers that NACA produced over the years. Others include:
Jesse Garrison wrote:
  • Aircraft Circulars (AC) - Reprints of articles giving specifications of individual aircraft, often from other countries.
  • Annual Reports (AR) - Contain NACA’s Annual Report to Congress as well as Technical Reports produced in that year.
  • Control Reports (CR)
  • Technical Memorandum (TM) - Reprinted reports from other laboratories, often translations from foreign languages.
  • Technical Notes (TN) - Report partial results or material of narrower interest. Selected information from these reports was often analyzed and refined for later publication in the more formal Technical Report series.
  • Reports (TR) - also called NACA Technical Reports (TR). Usually the final report on a project, summarizing earlier interim reports.
  • Research Memorandum (RM) - Less formal reports issued to meet the need for rapid dissemination of aeronautical information.
  • Wartime Reports (WR) - Published after World War II to make more widely available wartime research that had been previously issued in restricted series.

(Source: Iowa State University)

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