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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Research Memorandum -  A Restricted List of Aircraft Materials Research Projects

is list of active materials research projects sponsored. by the
Government has been prepared by the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics and is a continuation of a series originated by the NACA
Special Committee on Materials Research Coordination- The Special
Committee on Materials Research Coordination has been discharged,
but certain of the functions formerly assigned to that group are
being continued by the staff of the Washington Office of the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

This list contains a selected group of projects sponsored by
the Government on materials having applicability to the field 'of
aeronautics, and it supersedes a previous publication entitled "A
Restricted Index of Aircraft Materials Research Projects Sponsored
by Government Agencies, " dated May 191l-6 . It is distributed to
Government agencies, the aircraft and related industries, to the
producers and fabricators of aircraft materials, and to appropriate
research laboratories in keeping with the Committee's policy of
encouraging the greatest possible exchange of research information
within the limits of security ”and proprietary considerations.

The objective of this list of projects is to indicate work
currently in progress, and to elicit cement from those concerned
with the utilization of aircraft materials as to desirable new
projects or fields for exploration. Because most of these projects
are still in progress, few formal reports have been prepared on
them- Therefore, the NACA does not have more detailed information
on many of the projects than that which appears in this list- The
NACA will, however, be glad to cooperate on any requests for
additional information which may be available.

There are included in this list many projects of general
interest to the aircraft industry regardless of the end use to be
made of the results of the projects. It is felt that research on
materials can have applications in the field of aeronautics even
if it is primarily concerned with a different field. Acknowledgment
is made to the agencies sponsoring the projects for their cooperation
in making the information in this list available.