Aeronautics category: 1620 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA report provides a comprehensive history of the X-43A Hyper-X (Hypersonic Experiment) program. In this NASA project, a supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine was flight tested on a subscale vehicle. The...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA documents the contributions of Langley Research Center to specific military aircraft that were operational in the 1990's. Virtually all military aircraft that participated in Operation Desert Storm, Kosovo, and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The primary objective of this paper is to present an analysis and a historical review of the Apollo Lunar Module landing dynamics from the standpoint of touchdown dynamic stability, landing system energy absorption performance, and evaluation of the first-order terms of lunar soil mechanical properties...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This document is a collection of writings concerning the application of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to the International Space Station (ISS), Space Shuttle, and X-38 vehicles. An overview of how GPS technology was applied is given for each vehicle, including rationale behind the integration...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
The Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV) concept is an integral part of NASA's plans for future human space exploration. Each SEV includes a small pressurized cabin to safely sustain two crewmembers for 14 to 28 days. Through suit ports, crewmembers may rapidly egress and ingress the cabin for extravehicular...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
These American and Soviet Press Kits for the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission provide a wealth of information about the mission and the spacecraft - including the first extensive official description of the Soyuz capsule.
The introduction states: This document contains...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Eleven USAF accident investigation board reports, converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction, present findings into Class A aerospace mishaps involving UAV/UAS remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) in 2011 and 2012. The incidents included the EQ-4B Global Hawk and MQ-1B Predator.
Report...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA report presents a history of that portion of laminar-flow technology known as active laminar-flow control, which employs suction of a small quantity of air through airplane surfaces. This important technique offers...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The fascinating oral histories of twenty-one Apollo lunar program pioneers - converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - provide new insights into this extraordinary effort, with vital observations about an era of space history that changed the world. The interviews divulge new...
by Gary V. Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Get your career off the ground with this updated guide to acing the technical pilot interview!
Written by an experienced airline pilot, Ace the Technical Pilot Interview, Second Edition is filled with more than 1000 questions and answers, many of them all-new. This practical study tool asks the right...
LZ-127 "Graf Zeppelin" vol.2
The story of an airship - table
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Since an appendix is normally a section of a book that few normal readers really study, the LZC Collection believes one can save the reader money, by offering the extensive information as a separate Volume. This list covers all 590 flights, giving departure times, dates, destinations, etc. for each, in a simple useable manner.
Handley Page
Forty Years On, 1909-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Handley Page began manufacturing aeroplanes in a small factory in Barking, Essex in 1909. Handley Page Limited was founded by Frederick Handley Page (later Sir Frederick) as the United Kingdom's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing company. Sir Frederick declined to allow his company to be...
by Nancy E. Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
In March 1921, Major John G. Thornell and his crew were detailed to Italy to procure a new experimental airship for the United States Army Air Service. Stationed at Langley Field in Hampton, the ROMA never lived up to expectations despite being heralded as the future of military innovation. Tragically,...
X-15
The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In X-15, the exciting story of the X-15—the iconic rocket plane of the Cold War space race—is recounted by John Anderson, curator of aerodynamics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. This experimental space plane was on the cutting edge of hypersonic aerodynamics, and its winged reentry...