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Expanding the Envelope : Flight Research at NACA and NASA /
"Flight research takes up where the other instruments of aeronautical research - wind tunnels, fluid dynamics, and mathematical analysis - leave off. No matter how the equations suggest an aircraft ought to fly, only by studying actual flight, often in demanding, complicated, and dangerous mane...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
2001.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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