Grumman Aerospace Corporation

Herbert J Schneider

Robert L Kosson

Henry J Vroom

Louis H Hemmerdinger

Warren Robert Bolle

Burton Swerdling

A leading edge construction for reducing drag on an airfoil, the construction includes a relatively thin solid plate extending forwardly from the air foil, the plate having an exposed top surface and an exposed bottom surface, and a relatively sharply radiused forward edge forming the leading edge of the air foil. The construction further includes slots adjacent to the top and bottom surfaces of the plates for injecting coolant over the top and bottom surfaces of the plate, toward the leading edge, to provide active cooling of the plate for removing stagnant heat lead. The method for reducing drag on a air foil according to this invention includes the steps of providing a relatively thin solid plate extending forwardly from the air foil; the plate having a relatively sharply radiused forward edge forming a leading edge for the air foil, and exposed top and bottom surfaces for cooling; injecting coolant over the top and bottom surfaces of the plate, toward the forward edge; entraining the coolant over the surfaces to actively cool the edge and remove the static heat load.

Injection-cooled hypersonic leading edge construction and method

An ampoule assembly for the growth of single crystal materials is particularly adapted for a micro-gravity environment and includes a plurality of centering rods for spacing a crystalline material from the inner surface of an ampoule. The centering rods are spaced relative to one another to form a dopant vapor passageway to provide uniform stoichiometry of the crystal upon melting and resolidification. Minimum contact between ampoule and the crystalline material ensures greater purity of the crystalline material when the material is transformed into a single crystal.

Method and apparatus for growth of single crystal material in space

A closed water/glycol solar heating system for preheating a fluid so as to reduce energy requirements in bringing said fluid up to a desired temperature and holding same, said system including a solar collector having a flexible dome.

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Plainview, NY, United States of America

Herbert J Schneider