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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Reed, R. Dale, 1930- (Auteur), Lister, Darlene, 1945- (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Yeager, Chuck, 1923- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center > History.
Lifting bodies (Aeronautics) > United States > Design and construction > History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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