Results are presented of an investigation of stability, controllability, and stalling characteristics of five light airplanes. The effect of slots on the flying qualities of one of the airplanes is also shown. These five airplanes are considerd typical of the light airplanes now being manufactured.

Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.