This compelling book opens up the world of high-speed flight to readers who do not have extensive technical backgrounds. Covering both subsonic and supersonic flight, it demystifies the world of high-speed aerodynamics, flight principles, gas turbine jets, and more. You'll learn why there are no supersonic airliners, what problems confront designers of 2,000-mph aircraft, and whether or not a hypersonic, or Mach 5, airplane is likely to be built.
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Larry Reithmaier is a retired mechanical engineer who, while at Rockwell International, helped design and develop the F2H, F3, F86H, F100, F101, and F4 jet fighters, the B-1B bomber, and Apollo and Skylab spacecrafts. The author of several technical books on aviation, he also wrote the Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians, Sixth Edition; the Aviation and Space Dictionary; Mach I and Beyond; Private Pilot's Guide; and Aircraft Repair Manual.
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Great non-technical book about high-speed flight,
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This review is from: Mach 1 and Beyond: The Illustrated Guide to High-Speed Flight (Paperback)
Great book for anyone who wants to learn all about high-speed flight without having to learn Calculus, Thermodynamics, and other things associated with an Aerospace Egnineering degree.
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THE AIRPLANE HAS COMPLETELY REVOLUTIONIZED long-distance travel to the extent that other modes are practically extinct. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
irreversible control system, local lift coefficients, supersonic flow patterns, local sonic flow, supersonic airstream, spanwise flow, transonic flight, supersonic configurations, stall pattern, compressibility drag, forward delta, transonic drag rise, advanced turboprop, maximum lift coefficient, high lift coefficients, subsonic airplane, aerodynamic concepts, aerodynamic center, basic airplane, resulting pressure distribution, hypersonic flight, normal shock wave, supercritical airfoil, afterburning engines, shock wave formation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Electric, Air Force, United States, North American, Whitney Aircraft, World War, General Dynamics, Skunk Works, Federal Aviation Administration, National Aero Space Plane, Development of the Lockheed, Langley Research Center, Lockheed Horizons, Evolution of Lockheed, Lockheed Corporation, Strategic Air Command, Super Sabre New!
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THE AIRPLANE HAS COMPLETELY REVOLUTIONIZED long-distance travel to the extent that other modes are practically extinct. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
irreversible control system, local lift coefficients, supersonic flow patterns, local sonic flow, supersonic airstream, spanwise flow, transonic flight, supersonic configurations, stall pattern, compressibility drag, forward delta, transonic drag rise, advanced turboprop, maximum lift coefficient, high lift coefficients, subsonic airplane, aerodynamic concepts, aerodynamic center, basic airplane, resulting pressure distribution, hypersonic flight, normal shock wave, supercritical airfoil, afterburning engines, shock wave formation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Electric, Air Force, United States, North American, Whitney Aircraft, World War, General Dynamics, Skunk Works, Federal Aviation Administration, National Aero Space Plane, Development of the Lockheed, Langley Research Center, Lockheed Horizons, Evolution of Lockheed, Lockheed Corporation, Strategic Air Command, Super Sabre New!
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- Illustrated Guide to Aerodynamics by Hubert Smith in Back Matter
- Standard Aircraft Handbook for Mechanics and Technicians by Larry Reithmaier in Back Matter
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