Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body StoryMost 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 official permission), Dale Reed and his team of engineers demonstrated the potential of the design that led to the Space Shuttle. Wingless Flight takes us behind the scenes with just the right blend of technical information and fascinating detail (the crash of M2-F2 found new life as the opening credit for TV's "The Six Million Dollar Man"). The flying bathtub, itself, is finding new life as the proposed escape-pod for the Space Station. |
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Περιεχόμενα
Chapter 1 The Adventure Begins | 1 |
Chapter 2 Flying Bathtub | 19 |
Chapter 3 Commitment to Risk | 41 |
Chapter 4 On to the Heavyweights | 65 |
Chapter 5 Angry Machines | 87 |
Chapter 6 Back to the Drawing Board | 111 |
Chapter 7 Wingless Flight Matures | 129 |
Chapter 8 LiftingBody Racehorses | 155 |
Chapter 9 Wingless Flight Lives On | 179 |
Appendix | 193 |
Glossary | 201 |
| 211 | |
About the Author | 215 |
| 217 | |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story R. Dale Reed,Darlene Lister Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2002 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
aerodynamic aerospace aircraft airplane altitude angle of attack approach astronauts Bill Dana Bruce Peterson car-tow center fin characteristics Chuck Yeager cockpit control surfaces control system crew Dale Reed DeGeer Dick Eldredge Edwards AFB elevons engineers feet flare flew Flight Research Center flight-test flown flying the M2-F1 Fred Haise glide flight Gooney Bird Hallion Hoey Hyper hypersonic Iliff installed Jerry Gentry John Manke Johnson Space Center Kempel L/B Flight lakebed landing gear later launch lift-to-drag ratio lifting bodies lifting-body flight lifting-body pilot lifting-body program longitudinal Mach maneuvers Milt Thompson NACA NASA Ames NASA Dryden NASA Flight Research NASA Headquarters NASA Langley NASA photo NASA's Northrop nose orbit oscillation parachute Paul Bikle pilot-induced oscillation pitch Pontiac problem research pilot rocket rocket-powered roll control rudder runway Shuttle simulator spacecraft stick structure subsonic supersonic test pilots tow-line transonic tunnel vehicle's VentureStar vertical wind-tunnel tests wing wingless X-15 program
Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας
| Τίτλος | Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story EBSCO ebook academic collection UPCC book collections on Project MUSE |
| Συγγραφείς | R. Dale Reed, Darlene Lister |
| Έκδοση | επανεκτύπωση |
| Εκδότης | University Press of Kentucky, 2015 |
| ISBN | 0813161606, 9780813161600 |
| Μέγεθος | 256 σελίδες |
| Εξαγωγή αναφοράς | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |