Wingless Flight : The Lifting Body Story /
Most lifting bodies, or "flying bathtubs" as they were called, were so ugly only an engineer could love them, and yet, what an elegant way to keep wings from burning off in supersonic flight between Earth and orbit. Working in their spare time (because they couldn't initially get offi...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Main Authors: | , |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2015
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Note to paperback edition
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The adventure begins
- "Flying bathtub"
- Commitment to risk
- On to the heavyweights
- Angry machines
- Back to the drawing board
- Wingless flight matures
- Lifting-body racehorses
- Wingless flight lives on
- Appendix
- Glossary.