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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Report - Nomenclature for Aeronautics

The nomenclature for aeronautics presented in this Report No. 240 is a revision of the last
previous report on the subject (No. 157), which was issued in February, 1923.

This Nomenclature for Aeronautics was prepared by a special conference on aeronautical
nomenclature authorized by the executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics at a meeting held on August 19, 1924, at which meeting Dr. Joseph S. Ameswas
appointed chairman of said conference. The conference was composed of representatives of the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and, in response to the committee’s invitation
specially appointed representatives officially designated by the Army Air Service, the Bureau
of Aeronautics of the Navy Department, the Bureau of Standards, the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce.

On completion of the reports of these four subcommittees, they were considered by the
entire conference at a final meeting, and on recommendation of the conference the complete
nomenclature was ofiicially approved by the executive committee of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics on September 19, 1925.

This report supersedes all previous publications of the committee on this subject. It is
published for the purpose of securing greater uniformity and accuracy in the use of terms re—
lating t0 aeronautics, in oficial documents of the Government and, as far as possible, in tech-
nical and other commercial publications.