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"Presents an in-depth account of the entire NASA/Air Force lifting-body program written by the engineer who intiated it." -- Aviation History
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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.
"Presents an in-depth account of the entire NASA/Air Force lifting-body program written by the engineer who intiated it." -- Aviation History
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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 detail 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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My Journey in February 1953 to the NACA High Speed Flight Research Station (as the Muroc Flight Test Unit had come to be called in 1949) actually began about a decade earlier in two smalI mountain towns in Idaho, about as far from the center of aerospace innovation as one can get. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interconnect ratio, other lifting bodies, subsonic configuration, powered lifting bodies, deployable wings, first glide flight, lakebed runway, outer elevons, lifting reentry, ground cockpit, spacecraft recovery, flying bathtub, gliding parachute, lifting body, wingless flight, glide flights, first supersonic flight, captive flights, horizontal landing, dihedral effect, center fin, stability augmentation system, analytical team, roll control, body flap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, Flight Research Center, Milt Thompson, Paul Bikle, Gooney Bird, Jerry Gentry, Bruce Peterson, Johnson Space Center, Bill Dana, John Manke, Dick Eldredge, Bertha Ryan, Ken Iliff, Dale Reed, Rogers Dry Lake, Wen Painter, Bob Kempel, Harriet Smith, Vic Horton, Bob Hoey, Larry Taylor, Chuck Yeager, World War, Skunk Works, Ames Research Center New!
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My Journey in February 1953 to the NACA High Speed Flight Research Station (as the Muroc Flight Test Unit had come to be called in 1949) actually began about a decade earlier in two smalI mountain towns in Idaho, about as far from the center of aerospace innovation as one can get. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interconnect ratio, other lifting bodies, subsonic configuration, powered lifting bodies, deployable wings, first glide flight, lakebed runway, outer elevons, lifting reentry, ground cockpit, spacecraft recovery, flying bathtub, gliding parachute, lifting body, wingless flight, glide flights, first supersonic flight, captive flights, horizontal landing, dihedral effect, center fin, stability augmentation system, analytical team, roll control, body flap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, Flight Research Center, Milt Thompson, Paul Bikle, Gooney Bird, Jerry Gentry, Bruce Peterson, Johnson Space Center, Bill Dana, John Manke, Dick Eldredge, Bertha Ryan, Ken Iliff, Dale Reed, Rogers Dry Lake, Wen Painter, Bob Kempel, Harriet Smith, Vic Horton, Bob Hoey, Larry Taylor, Chuck Yeager, World War, Skunk Works, Ames Research Center New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- ON FRONTIER by Richard P. Hallion on 18 pages
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe on page 48, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Spaceflight and Rocketry: A Chronology by David Baker on page 66, and Back Matter
- On the Frontier by Frank Walker on page 4
- Space Shuttle by Crown in Back Matter
- Airplane Stability and Control by Malcolm J. Abzug in Back Matter
- Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight by David J. Shayler in Back Matter
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