6 - Seaplanes - Lawrence Percival Coombes Guide to Records

Series 6 - Seaplanes

Date Range	c. 1928 - c. 1945
Provenance	Lawrence Percival Coombes
Description	Reports and publications on the construction of seaplanes.

Inventory Listing

6-1	Seaplane Publications, Part I
	'The Testing of Seaplanes and Flying Boats', The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, vol.34 no.230, February 1930, pp. 190-209; 'Wall interference, depth effect and scale effect in tank tests of seaplane models', (abstract) in Abstracts of papers, Fourth International Congress for Applied Mechanics, 3 - 9 July, Cambridge University Press, 1934, p.22. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1930 - 1934 Quantity 0.7 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00158 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-2	Seaplane Publications, Part II
	'Research in the R.A.E. Tank', The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, vol.39 no.297, September 1935, pp. 807-834; With K.W. Clark, 'Air Drag of Hulls', Aircraft Engineering, vol.9 no.106, December 1937, pp. 315-321, 328, First half of article. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1935 - 1937 Quantity 1.3 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00159 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-3	Seaplane Research
	D.F. Lucking, 'The experimental development of anchors for seaplanes', paper read at the Spring Meetings of the Seventy-seventh Session of the Institute of Naval Architects, 3 April 1936; LPC and D.W. Bottle, 'Notes on Stubs for Seaplanes' ARC Reports & Memoranda, No.1755, September 1935. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1935 - 1936 Quantity 0.4 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00161 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-4	'Seaplane research by Garner and Coombes'
	Typed notes, 'Research on the hulls and floats of seaplanes', for article, undated. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range c. 1928 - c. 1930 Quantity 0.5 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00162 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-5	Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, Felixstowe - Reports
	Felixstowe Reports by LPC: F/A/60, 'Anchors for Seaplanes', 2 September 1927, two copies, one being stamped with an ARL Library stamp and having attached two Air Ministry photographs; F/A/80A 'The Effect of Wind on the Take-off of Seaplanes', 25 October 1928. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 2 September 1927 - 25 October 1928 Quantity 0.7 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00163 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-6	Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough - Report
	RAE Report No.BA 964 by LPC, 'The Equiptment of the Hamburgische Schiffbau Versuchsanstalt', from ARL library. Also stamped 'RAAF, 27 July 1932'. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range June 1932 Quantity 0.3 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00164 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-7	'Experiments with Planing Surfaces', parts II and III
	By Dipl. Eng. W. Sottorf, Hamburg, translated by LPC. Three reports dated 18 January 1933, 20 April 1933, 25 August 1933, for the Seaplane sub-committee of the Aeronautical Research Committee. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 18 January 1933 - 25 August 1933 Quantity 1 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00165 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-8	Tank Notes, Nos 4,5,8
	No. 4, 'Tests on protective coatings for wood immersed in water' by L. Johnston, B.Sc.(April, 1934); No.5, 'Note on the methods of correcting tank test results for the air forces on the model and apparatus' by LPC (February 1936); No.8, 'Some notes on visit to USA and Canada' by LPC (November 1938), covering Langley Field, Glenn Martin Co. of Baltimore, Consolidated, Tank of Canadian Research Council in Ottowa, with two pages of handwritten notes attached. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range April 1934 - November 1938 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00166 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-9	'The Hull-less Flying Boat' - description and patent
	Incomplete paper headed 'The Hull-less Flying Boat' by H. Roxbee Cox and LPC; Patent agreement with the Air Council dated 30 August 1937 with attached description dated 31 July 1937. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range July 1937 - August 1937 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00167 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-10	Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Technical Notes on seaplanes
	Technical Note No. Aero 1543, 'Proposals for New Seaplane Model Testing Facilities' by A.G. Smith, November 1944; Technical Note No. Aero 1544, 'Some notes on Factors affecting Seaplane Tank Design' by W.G.A. Perring, November 1944. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range November 1944 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00168 Box Number 14 Series 6
6-11	'The Development of Seaplane Research' by LPC
	Draft of paper written after September 1945. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1945?, after September 1945 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00169 Box Number 14 Series 6

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