Download or read book Equipment Used in Experiments to Solve the Problem of Fog Flying written by Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equipment Used in Experiments to Solve the Problem of Fog Flying written by Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskriver udviklingen af flyinstrumenter til brug ved flyvning i tåge.
Download or read book Equipment Used in Experiments to Solve the Problem of Fog Flying written by Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying the Beam written by Henry R. Lehrer and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected to the development of the airmail as the first commercially sustainable use of airplanes. From the lighted airways of the 1920s through the radio navigation system in place by the time of World War II, this book explores the conceptualization and ultimate construction of the initial US airways systems.The daring exploits of the earliest airmail pilots are well documented, but the underlying story of just how brick-and-mortar construction, radio research and improvement, chart and map preparation, and other less glamorous aspects of aviation contributed to the system we have today has been understudied. Flying the Beam traces the development of aeronautical navigation of the US airmail airways from 1917 to 1941. Chronologically organized, the book draws on period documents, pilot memoirs, and firsthand investigation of surviving material remains in the landscape to trace the development of the system. The author shows how visual cross-country navigation, only possible in good weather, was developed into all-weather "blind flying." The daytime techniques of "following railroads and rivers" were supplemented by a series of lighted beacons (later replaced by radio towers) crisscrossing the country to allow nighttime transit of long-distance routes, such as the one between New York and San Francisco. Although today's airway system extends far beyond the continental US and is based on digital technologies, the way pilots navigate from place to place basically uses the same infrastructure and procedures that were pioneered almost a century earlier. While navigational electronics have changed greatly over the years, actually "flying the beam" has changed very little.
Download or read book Solving the Problem of Fog Flying written by Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Note written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tank Tests of a Family of Flying boat Hulls written by James M. Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents towing tests made in the N.A.C.A. tank of a parent form and five variations of a flying-boat hull. The beams of two of the dervied forms were made the same as that of the parent and the lengths changed by increasing and decreasing the spacing of stations. The lengths of two other of the derived forms were made the same as that of the parent while the beams were changed by increasing and decreasing the spacing of buttocks, all other widths being changed in proportion. The remaining derived form has the same length and beam as the parent, but the lines of the forebody were altered to give a planing bottom with no longitudinal curvature forward of the step.
Download or read book Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic Tests of Models of Floats for Single float Seaplanes written by J. B. Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests were made in the N.A.C.A. tank and in the N.A.C.A. 7- by 10-foot wind tunnel of two models of transverse-step floats and three models of pointed-step floats considered to be suitable for use with single-float seaplanes. The modesl were designed at the N.A.C.A. tank as part of a program having for its object the reduction of the water resistance and spray of single-float seaplanes without reducing the angle of dead rise believed to be necessary for the satisfactory absorption of the shock loads.
Download or read book Wicked Problems How to Engineer a Better World written by Guru Madhavan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ode to systems engineers—whose invisible work undergirds our life—and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle. Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects—often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy—are known as wicked problems, and they are not going away anytime soon. In linked chapters focusing on key facets of systems engineering—efficiency, vagueness, vulnerability, safety, maintenance, and resilience—engineer Guru Madhavan illuminates how wicked problems have emerged throughout history and how best to address them in the future. He examines best-known tragedies and lesser-known tales, from the efficient design of battleships to a volcano eruption that curtailed global commerce, and how maintenance of our sanitation systems constitutes tikkun olam, or repair of our world. Braided throughout is the uplifting tale of Edwin Link, an unsung hero who revolutionized aviation with his flight trainer. In Link’s story, Madhavan uncovers a model mindset to engage with wickedness. An homage to society’s innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for readers of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice—one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.
Download or read book The Problem with Pilots written by Timothy P. Schultz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating look at how human vulnerability led to advances in aviation technology. As aircraft flew higher, faster, and farther in the early days of flight, pilots were exposed as vulnerable, inefficient, and dangerous. They asphyxiated or got the bends at high altitudes; they fainted during high-G maneuvers; they spiraled to the ground after encountering clouds or fog. Their capacity to commit fatal errors seemed boundless. The Problem with Pilots tells the story of how, in the years between the world wars, physicians and engineers sought new ways to address these difficulties and bridge the widening gap between human and machine performance. A former Air Force pilot, Timothy P. Schultz delves into archival sources to understand the evolution of the pilot–aircraft relationship. As aviation technology evolved and enthusiasts looked for ways to advance its military uses, pilots ceded hands-on control to sophisticated instrument-based control. By the early 1940s, pilots were sometimes evicted from aircraft in order to expand the potential of airpower—a phenomenon much more common in today's era of high-tech (and often unmanned) aircraft. Connecting historical developments to modern flight, this study provides an original view of how scientists and engineers brought together technological, medical, and human elements to transform the pilot's role. The Problem with Pilots does away with the illusion of pilot supremacy and yields new insights into our ever-changing relationship with intelligent machines.
Download or read book Towing Tests of Models as an Aid in the Design of Seaplanes written by P. Schröder and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report concerns the making and evaluation of a towing test of a seaplane float system. Some of the topics considered are: 1) the influence of the wing cell and power plant on the take-off performance; 2) the determination of the resistance curve for the take-off free to trim; 3) the resistance curves with elevator control (at fixed trims); 4) take-off time and take-off run.
Download or read book Technical Note National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naval Research Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Development Report written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Flight written by Richard P. Hallion and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its subsequent impact--from the vantage of a century after the Wright Brother's historic flight on December 17, 1903--has been extraordinary. Richard Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. The result is an interpretive history of uncommon sweep, complexity, and warmth. Taking care to place each technological advance in the context of its own period as well as that of the evolving era of air travel, this ground-breaking work follows the pre-history of flight, the work of balloon and airship advocates, fruitless early attempts to invent the airplane, the Wright brothers and other pioneers, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, and finally the transfer of prophecy into practice as flight came to play an ever-more important role in world affairs, both military and civil. Making extensive use of extracts from the journals, diaries, and memoirs of the pioneers themselves, and interspersing them with a wide range or rare photographs and drawings, Taking Flight leads readers to the laboratories and airfields where aircraft were conceived and tested. Forcefully yet gracefully written in rich detail and with thorough documentation, this book is certain to be the standard reference for years to come on how humanity came to take to the sky, and what the Aerial Age has meant to the world since da Vinci's first fantastical designs.
Download or read book Technical Memorandums written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly translations from foreign aeronautical journals.
Download or read book Aviation in the U S Army 1919 1939 written by Maurer Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
