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Box 1 of 9

 

Series I: Correspondence and Official Papers

1. Correspondence, Hall Convertible Airfoil Design (1927-1928) 2. Correspondence, Flying Truck versus Glider, David G. Fleet and Air Corps (1941) 3. Miscellaneous Correspondence, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Airway Motors, Inc., T.P. Hall Engineering Corporation (1938-1949) 4. Miscellaneous Correspondence, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Airway Motors, Inc., T.P. Hall Engineering Corporation (1949-1959) 5. Convair - Crosley Engine Invoices (1949)
 

Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies

Scope and Contents

6. Experimental Monoplane, B.F. Mahoney Aircraft Corporation (1928) 7. Convertible Airfoil, Theodore P. Hall, MIT, Master’s Thesis - Original (1928) 8. Convertible Airfoil, Theodore P. Hall, MIT, Master’s Thesis - Copy 1 (1928) 9. Convertible Airfoil, Theodore P. Hall, MIT, Master’s Thesis - Copy 2 (1928) 10. High Lift Wing Performance Calculations (1929-1937) 11. Cunningham-Hall Airfoil, ED-13, MIT (1930) 12. Hall Convertible Wing Model and Wind Tunnel Test (1930)
 

Box 2 of 9

 

Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies

Scope and Contents

1. Wind Tunnel Tests and Lateral Control Investigations, High Lift Wing (1930) 2. High-Lift Wing Miscellaneous Drawings/Analyses (1931-1939) 3. Technical Notes No. 417, Wind Tunnel Tests of a High Lift Wing (1932)
4. Experiments with Wing Passageway, Automatic Flaps, and Lateral Control for Full Span Flaps, R.F. Hall (1930s) 5. Speed, Range and Control with High Lift Wing (c. 1934) 6. Design Factors, Model XCP-1 (1939) 7. Flight Reports, NX-14993 Car-Airplane (1940-1941) 8. The Convertible Car-Airplane, XCP-1, T.P. Hall (1941) 9. XCP-1 CAA Aircraft Operation Record (1941) 10. Hall XCP-1 Airworthiness and Aircraft Registration Certificate (14993) 11. Development and Design of the Consolidated Stressed Skin Wing (c. 1942) 12. Consolidated Vultee, Retractable Surface, Longitudinal and Directional Control (1943) 13. Catalog, Wagner Hydraulic Brake Parts for Aircraft (1943) 14. Model 111, Summary of Calculated Weight and Balance (1945) 15. Oleo Shock Strut Packing Service Tests (1945) 16. Ercoupe Flight Reports (1946) 17. Consolidated Vultee Flying Automobile Four-Place Proposal (1946) 18. Model 116, CAA Airworthiness Certificate (1946) 19. Model 116, Development Program (1946) 20. Model 116, Estimated Flight Characteristics (1946) 21. Model 116, Detail Design Sketches (1946) 22. Model 116, Cal Tech, Wind Tunnel Tests of Quarter Scale Model (1946) 23. Model 116, Wind Tunnel Tests of Quarter Scale Model (1946) 24. Model 116, Shock Strut Design/Analys1s (1946) 25. Model 116, Landing Gear Shock Strut Drop Tests (1946) 26. Model 116, Design Characteristics Report (1946)
 

Box 3 of 9

 

Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies

Scope and Contents

1. Model 116, Flight Performance Testing, Flight Reports 1-3 (1946) 2. Model 116, Flight Performance Testing, Flight Reports 4-7 (1946) 3. Model 116, Flight Performance Testing, Flight Reports 8-66 (1946) 4. Model 116, ZS-116-001, Fuselage Analysis (1946) 5. Model 116, ZS-116-002, Roadable Airplane Wing Analysis (1946) 6. Model 116, ZS-116-003, Empennage and Boom Analysis (1946) 7. Model 116, ZS-116-004, Landing Gear Analysis (1946) 8. Model 116, Various Weight Statements (1946-1947) 9. Model 116, ZW-116-001, Estimated Weight and Balance Study (1946) 10. Preliminary Weight and Balance Study, Four Place Flying Automobile (1946) 11. Model 116, Deflection Analysis (1946) 12. Model 116, Program Planning (1946-1947) 13. Model 116, Control System (1946) 14. Effect of Airframe Weight on Direct Labor Man Hours, Consolidated (1946-1948) 15. Model 116, Performance Calculations (1947) 16. Model 116, Engine Cooling Test Measurements, Flights 1-60 (1947) 17. Model 116, Summary Report of Engine Cooling, Flights 8-66 (1947) 18. Model 116, Engine Failure Report (1946) 19. Design Sketches/Notes Model 116/118, 1 of 2 20. Design Sketches/Notes Model 116/118, 2 of 2
 

Box 4 of 9

 

Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies

Scope and Contents

1. Model 116/118, Hall Informal Notes/Analysis/Design, 1 of 3 2. Model 116/118, Hall Informal Notes/Analysis/Design, 2 of 3 3. Model 116/118, Hall Informal Notes/Analysis/Design, 3 of 3 4. Flying Automobile Program (1947) 5. Model 116/Voyager 165 Performance Comparison (1947) 6. Model 118, Artist Illustrations (1947) 7. Consolidated Flying Car Marketing Brochure Sketches 8. Flying Automobiles in 1947, Consolidated-Vultee Study 9. Model 118, Consolidated Vultee, ZP47118001, Convair Flying Car (1947) 10. Flying Automobile Marketing Brochure, Original Art (Undated) 11. Model 118, Design Sketches/Material Information/Manufacture Information 12. Model 118, Roadable Design Performance Characteristics 13. Model 118, Cost Analysis (1946-1947) 14. Model 118, ZW-118-001/ZW-118-002 Estimated Weight and Balance (1947) 15. Model 118, ZA-118-001, Flight Characteristics (1947) 16. Model 118, ZD-118-002, Convair Outline Specification (1947) 17. Model 118, Wheel and Brake Development Tests, 4.50-12 Wheel (1947) 18. Model 118, Wheel and Brake Development Tests, 6.00- 6 Wheel (1947) 19. Model 118, Wheel and Brake Engineering Data (1947)
 

Box 5 of 9

 

Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies

Scope and Contents

1. Model 118, Weight Analysis, 1 of 2 (1946-1947) 2. Model 118, Weight Analysis, 2 of 2 (1946-1947) 3. Model 118, Aircraft Flight Reports (1947-1948) 4. Model 118, Report of Forced Landing of Flying Automobile (1947 – See Also Photographs Folder – 18 Photographs) 5. Convertible Airplane – Light Armored Car (c. 1947) 6. Model 118, Specification for Army Air Forces Personnel Transport (1947) 7. Outline Specification, Flying Automobile, Army Ground Forces (1947) 8. Flying Auto Military Variants (Jeep/Truck/Litter) 9. Specification for Convertible Car-Airplanes 10. Preliminary Design Data Showing Several Arrangements for Use as a Liaison-Observation Aircraft (1948) 11. Model 118, Flight Test Performance Data (1948) 12. Model 118, ZW-118-003, Weight Summary (1948) 13. Army Air Corps Flying Truck Variant (1948) 14. Model 118, Flight Preparation Sheets 15. Model 118, Shock Strut Design Analysis
 

Box 6 of 9

 

Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies

Scope and Contents

1. Model 118, 0.22 Scale Model Wind Tunnel Tests, Without Power (1947) 2. Model 118, Strut Drop Test Results 3. Model 118, CAA Airworthiness Certificate (1947) 4. Model 118, Weight Reports/Analysis 5. Model 118, Lacquer/Plastic Sample Panel 6. Ted Hall’s Notes/Calculations/Analyses, 1 of 3 7. Ted Hall’s Notes/Calculations/Analyses, 2 of 3 8. Ted Hall’s Notes/Calculations/Analyses, 3 of 3 9. Model SC100, Design Sketches, Airway Motors Inc., San Diego (1950) 10. XCP-1/VC-3 Technical Information/Characteristics (1953) 11. Model 118, Control Surface Ordinates (1947) 12. Model 118, Maneuvering Tail Load Calculations (1948) 13. Model 118, Aileron, Flap Pulley Design Notes (1948) 14. Model 118, Miscellaneous Documentation 15. Hydraulic Coupling, Twin Disc Clutch Company (1948) 16. Engineering Notes, Airway Motors, Inc. (1947) 17. Model 118, Sale of Salvaged Material (1948-1949)
 

Box 7 of 9

 

Series III: Interviews, Recollections and Biographical Information

Scope and Contents

1. Theodore Parsons Hall Biographical Information
 

Series IV: Published Information and Articles

Scope and Contents

2. Experiments with Automatic Flaps, R.F. Hall (1937) 3. Hall Wing Characteristics, Aero Digest, R.F. Hall (1938) 4. Towards the Venetian Blind – High Lift Wing (1938) 5. Lift Wing Safety Device, Rochester Evening News (1939) 6. Developing Engineering Perspective Drawings (1941) 7. On Wings and Wheels, Automobile Quarterly (1984) 8. The Convair Flying Automobile, SAE Technical Paper 921566 – 1992 9. Miscellaneous Flying Auto Historical Articles
 

Series V: Photographs

Scope and Contents

10. Cunningham-Hall Aircraft Company Model X-90 (without cowling) 11. Model 118 at Lindbergh Field (1947) 12. Model 118 Wheel and Brake Assembly – Eight Photographs (1947) 13. Model 118 Forced Landing in National City – Eighteen Photographs (1947)
 

Series VI: Invention Development Records and Patents

Scope and Contents

Theodore P. Hall Development Records and Patents
14. Listing, Hall Brothers Aircraft Patents (1925-1936) 15. Invention Specification Relating to Convertible Car-Airplanes (c. 1946) 16. Patent 2,562,491 - Flying Automobiles (1951) 17. Patent 2,562,492 - Means for Locking Detachable Loads to Aircraft (1951) 18. Patent 2,619,184 - Automotive Vehicle Adapted to be Airborne (1952) 19. Patent 2,619,301 - Flight Component, Ground Vehicles Adapted to Airborne (1952) 20. Patent 2,621,565 - Bomb Storing Assembly - Original Application (1939) 21. Patent 2,766,660 - Bomb Storing Assembly (1956) 22. Miscellaneous Hall Patent Information
Other Early Aircraft Patents: Patents 1,051,659 (1908) through 1,701,451 (1929)
23. Part 1 of 4: Airplane, Airplane Control, Control Surfaces, Motor Vehicle Construction, Flying Boat, Hydroaeroplane, Variable Area Wing, Vehicle Chassis, Aircraft Side Car, Air-Land-Water Craft, Sectional Flying Boat, Impeller Aerofoil, and Autoplane 24. Part 2 of 4: Airplane, Vehicle Chassis, Control Surface Mechanism, Aeroplane-Boat, Rotorcraft, Flying Machine, and Controlling Airplanes
 

Box 8 of 9

 

Series VI: Invention Development Records and Patents

Scope and Contents

1. Part 3 of 4: Airplane, Arrangement of Aeroplane Wings, Airplane Seat, Control Surface Actuator, Vehicle Body Mounting, Autorotative Winged Aircraft, Airplane Control, Flying Automobile, Body-Chassis Construction, All Wing Airplane, Motor Vehicle Manufacture, and Autoplane 2. Part 4 of 4: Airplane, Autoplane, Flying Automobile, Axle Construction, Flexible Device, Vehicle Body, Folding Wing, Aerial and Land Vehicle, Vehicle Suspension Mechanism, Roadable Airplane, Spring Suspension System, Fluid Foil Lifting Surface, and Combined Aircraft and Automobile
 

Series VII: Engineering Drawings

Scope and Contents

3. XCP-1 General Arrangement (1938) 4. Wagner Electric Corporation, Hydraulic Brake Parts (1943-1947) 5. XC-1, General Arrangement Drawing, Southern Aircraft Corporation (1945) 6. Wheel and Brake Assembly – Spicer Manufacturing (1947) 7. Model 118, Fluid Drive Assembly, Toolcraft Manufacturing (1945) 8. Model 118, Fluid Drive Coupling Assembly, Toolcraft Manufacturing (1945) 9. Model 118, Instruments and Instrument Installation (1945-1946) 10. Model 118, SD-46-15002 Flying Automobile, Four Place, Tapered Wing (1946) 11. Model 118, General Arrangement and Controls 12. Model 118, Wing Aileron, Tail Structural Detail 13. Model 118, Simmonds Products, Control Systems Bulletins (1946) 14. Model 118, Salsbury Motors, Clutch, Transmission, Rear Axle Assembly (1946) 15. Model 118, Flying Auto General Arrangement/Systems Drawings (c. 1947) 16. Model 118, Elevator Control Bungee (1947)
 

Box 9 of 9

 

Series VII: Engineering Drawings

Scope and Contents

1. Model 118, Cable Drive Windshield Wiper Installation (1947) 2. Model 118, Engine Assembly, Firebaugh Motors Inc. (1947) 3. Model 118, Stewart-Warner Speedometer System 4. Model 118, Coupling Assembly, Wheel, Thompson Products, Inc. (1947) 5. Model 118, Steering Assembly (1948) 6. Model 118, Steering Control, Wheel Assembly, Scott Aviation (1947) 7. Model 118, Hydraulic Pressure, Scott Aviation Corporation 8. Model 118, Auto Seat Assembly, Weber Aircraft (1947) 9. Model 118, Proposed Seat Cushions and Backs 10. Model 118, Assorted Wheel and Brake Assembly Drawings (1947) 11. Wheel Assembly, Kelsey-Hayes Wheel (1948) 12. U.S. Rubber Company – Wheel and Brake Assembly
Engineering Drawings A/B/C 1003, A/B/C/D 1015, C1017, B/C 1018, A/B/C 1019, B/C 1022, A2003, A, 2009, A2010, A2014, A2019, A2026, A2030, A2036, A2037, A2042, 4562, 4563, and P5183
 

Series VIII: Awards and Certificates

Scope and Contents

Certificate
Collection Contents
Box 1 of 9
Series I: Correspondence and Official Papers
Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies
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Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies
Box 3 of 9
Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies
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Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies
Box 5 of 9
Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies
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Series II: Technical Reports and Special Studies
Box 7 of 9
Series III: Interviews, Recollections and Biographical Information
Series IV: Published Information and Articles
Series V: Photographs
Series VI: Invention Development Records and Patents
Box 8 of 9
Series VI: Invention Development Records and Patents
Series VII: Engineering Drawings
Box 9 of 9
Series VII: Engineering Drawings
Series VIII: Awards and Certificates
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