Author: National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781729262733 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 46
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The effectiveness and practicality of candidate leading edge systems for suction laminar flow control transport airplanes were investigated in a flight test program utilizing a modified JetStar airplane. The leading edge region imposes the most severe conditions on systems required for any type of laminar flow control. Tests of the leading edge systems, therefore, provided definitive results as to the feasibility of active laminar flow control on airplanes. The test airplane was operated under commercial transport operating procedures from various commercial airports and at various seasons of the year. Maddalon, Dal V. and Braslow, Albert L. Langley Research Center RTOP 505-60-41-01
Author: James R. Hansen Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 9781585442430 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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The airplane ranks as one of history's most ingenious and phenomenal inventions--and surely one of the most world-shaking. How ideas about its aerodynamics first came together and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine it became is the epic story James R. Hansen tells in The Bird Is on the Wing. Just as the airplane is a defining technology of the twentieth century, aerodynamics has been the defining element of the airplane. Hansen provides an engaging, easily understandable introduction to the role of aerodynamics in the design of such historic American aircraft as the DC-3, X-1, and 747. Recognizing the impact individuals have had on the development of the field, he conveys not only a history of aircraft technology, but also a collective biography of the scientists, engineers, and designers who created the airplanes. From da Vinci, whose understanding of what it took to fly was three centuries too early for practical use, to the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers, Hansen explores the technological matrix from which aeronautical engineering emerged. He skillfully guides the reader through the development of such critical aerodynamic concepts as streamlining, flutter, laminar-flow airfoils, the mythical "sound barrier," variable-sweep wing, supersonic cruise, blended body, and much more. Hansen's explanation of how vocabulary and specifications were developed to fill the gap between the perceptions of pilots and the system of engineers will fascinate all those interested in how human beings have used aerodynamics to move among, and even beyond, birds on the wing.
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa
Author: Dal V. Maddalon![A History of Suction-type Laminar-flow Control with Empahsis [i.e. Emphasis] on Flight Research PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/bMd6SBzgH9kC?fife=w80-h100)
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Author: James R. Hansen