Lockheed "Vega" airplane : a commercial cabin monoplane
This is a 1927 NACA Aircraft Circular describing the Lockheed Vega, a commercial cabin monoplane, issued by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for an engineering and aviation readership. Its plates are plain photographs and line drawings of the aircraft in flight, its general arrangement with dimensions, and its fuselage structure being built, all in sepia tones. A designer could take from them the clean, functional logic of early streamlined aircraft, with strong wing silhouettes, tidy technical callouts, and the lattice of ribbed frames.
