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Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story - Softcover

Reed, R. Dale

 
9780813156279: Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813156270 ISBN 13: 9780813156279
Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014

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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 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

R. Dale Reed retired from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in 1985 but still works with NASA as a contract engineer. He has authored numerous articles and technical reports, managed nineteen NASA programs, including the flight test of a prototype Mars airplane, and acquired four patents.

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Verlag
The University Press of Kentucky
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813156270
ISBN 13 
9780813156279
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
226
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