TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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ABSTRACT 1 



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION 1 



INTRODUCTION 1 



MODELS 2 



GENERATION OF FOREBODIES 2 



Rounded Fore bodies 2 



Flat-Faced Forebodies 4 



SELECTION OF SHAPES 5 



CONSTRUCTION 7 



EXPERIMENTS 7 



GENERAL 7 



RESISTANCE MEASUREMENTS 8 



TRANSITION MEASUREMENTS 8 



TURBULENCE STIMULATORS 1 1 



REDUCTION OF RESISTANCE DATA 12 



RESULTS..: 15 



TRANSITION LOCATIONS 15 



RESISTANCE RESULTS 16 



CONCLUSIONS 20 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 21 



REFERENCES 47 



LIST OF FIGURES 



1 - Body of Revolution 22 



2 — Profiles of Forebodies of Series 1 22 



3 — Profiles of Forebodies of Series 2 22 



4 — Computed Distributions of Pressure Coefficients 



on Axisymmetric Forebodies of Series 1 23 



5 — Computed Distributions of Pressure Coefficients 



on Axisymmetric Forebodies of Series 2 24 



6 — Hot Film Instrumentation 25 



