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A geometrically similar family of three supercavitating hydrofoils was tested in a variable pressure water tunnel. The half-span foils were of elliptical planform; the ratio of foil half-span to tunnel height was 1/4 for the small foil, 1/2 for the medium foil, and 3/4 for the largest foil. The tunnel was of square cross section. Lift, drag, moment, tunnel speed, ambient pressure, and cavity pressure were measured for attack angles from 8 to 21 degrees and a variety of ambient pressure settings; cavity length measurements were obtained from photographs. For the small and medium foils, it was sufficient to correct only for the effect on downwash of the images of the trailing vortices. The large foil data, however, required further correction; upon application of the same corrections which were applied to the data for the two smaller foils, the force and moment data for the large foil plotted slightly lower than did the data for the two smaller foils, while the cavity length data for the large foil indicated cavity lengths significantly larger than for either of the theoretical predictions or the cavity length data for the two smaller foils.

A ''Scribe'' series notebook containing pages of verse written by Harry Michael Rex. Some poems are dated 1943 and 1944 and first page includes personal information including next of kin and military rank of the author. Some leaves has been torn out at center.