The Rolling Friction of Several Airplane Wheels and Tires and the Effect of Rolling Friction on Take-Off
A 1937 NASA technical report on the rolling friction of airplane wheels and tyres and how that friction affects aircraft take-off, written as an engineering study of aviation testing. The pictures are technical: a line graph of take-off run against rolling-friction coefficient, wheel cross-section drawings with dimensions, and a photograph of a truck towing a test wheel carriage across a flat airfield surface, offering a designer plain, measured diagrams of mechanical engineering.
