Wingless Flight : The Lifting Body Story /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Reed, R. Dale, 1930- (Author), Lister, Darlene, 1945- (Author)
Other Authors: Yeager, Chuck, 1923- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center > History.
Lifting bodies (Aeronautics) > United States > Design and construction > History.
Electronic books.
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.

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