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Probing the Sky: Selected NACA Research Airplanes and Their Contributions to Flight

Richard P. Hallion

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In the decades since the Wright brothers' first flights, a body of knowledge and tools, created in an evolutionary process of small steps, had been built up to guide engineers and researchers in developing new aircraft. The early wood-and-fabric biplanes had given way to all-metal monoplanes. Aircraft size, range, and payload had also grown, until the oceans could be spanned in a fraction of the time a ship would take. Speed became the critical factor in both commercial and military operations.

Language: English

Pages: 334

Format: ebook

Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Release: December 10, 2014

ISBN 13: 9781626830233

Probing the Sky: Selected NACA Research Airplanes and Their Contributions to Flight

Richard P. Hallion

3.2/5 ( ratings)

In the decades since the Wright brothers' first flights, a body of knowledge and tools, created in an evolutionary process of small steps, had been built up to guide engineers and researchers in developing new aircraft. The early wood-and-fabric biplanes had given way to all-metal monoplanes. Aircraft size, range, and payload had also grown, until the oceans could be spanned in a fraction of the time a ship would take. Speed became the critical factor in both commercial and military operations.

Language: English

Pages: 334

Format: ebook

Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Release: December 10, 2014

ISBN 13: 9781626830233

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