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,General Chuck Yeager Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2005 |
Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story National Aeronautics Administration,R. Dale Reed,Darlene Lister Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2013 |