Title: Flight Research Section of the Canadian National Research Council
Abstract: A FLIGHT RESEARCH SECTION of the Division of Mechanical Engineering of the National Research Council is being set up at the Royal Canadian Air Force Station at Arnprior, Ontario. This Section will be financed and operated by the National Research Council. The aerodrome will remain the property of the Department of National Defence for Air, but is leased to the Research Council. The R.C.A.F. will supply flying personnel, aircraft and maintenance staff. Research activities will be under the direction of the National Research Council. It will be a small establishment with probably not more than a hundred men and five aircraft. It is to contain a nucleus of trained flight research personnel and equipment, the object being to do basic research without the interference of normal air traffic. In the laboratories of the Division of Mechanical Engineering of the National Research Council near Ottawa three wind tunnels—two horizontal and one vertical—provide excellent facilities for studies on models of aircraft to determine the probable performance of full-scale aircraft in flight. The Flight Research Section will provide the means of securing necessary additional information to supplement and amplify the results obtained on model tests in the wind tunnel.