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Expanding the Envelope : Flight Research at NACA and NASA.
Expanding the Envelope is the first book to explore the full panorama of flight research history, from the earliest attempts by such nineteenth century practitioners as England's Sir George Cayley, who tested his kites and gliders by subjecting them to experimental flight, to the cutting-edge a...
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Early Flight Research; Two Ohioans; A Government Imperative; The NACA Takes Flight; The Way Forward; 2 Flight Research Takes Off; A Big Project; Planes Falling From the Sky; A Breakthrough: The Pressure Distribution Program; Flight Research Achieves Fame; A Foretaste of the High-Speed Conundrum; A Recognized Discipline; 3 Necessary Refinements; A Varied Discipline; First Incarnation: Stability and Control; Second Incarnation: Flying Qualities; Taking Flight; A Pause to Reflect; Bearing Fruit. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Flying Qualities at WarA New Direction; 4 First Among Equals; Diversification; Stirrings at Hampton; A Distant Land; The Situation on the Ground; A Man in a Rocket Plane; A Discipline Transformed; 5 A Leap Out of Water; Beneficiaries of Success; First Over the Top: The X-1 Research; The Other Research Vehicle; Bank and Turn; The Last of Its Kind; 6 Slower and Cheaper; Reverse Course; Bigger Lifting Bodies; From None to Three; A Crowning Achievement; Indigenous Projects; 7 A Tighter Focus; Reassessing Flight Research; An Extraordinary Testbed, A Promising Hybrid; Marrying Computers to Aircraft. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Something New in AerodynamicsA New Analytical Tool; A Page Turns; 8 New Directions; A Prophecy Fulfilled; The Salve of Important Work; An Old-Fashioned Program; An Independent Entity; Access to Space; New Responsibilities; Air and Space; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; Index. | |
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