Download or read book The Application of Some Lifting body Reentry Concepts to Missile Design written by M. Leroy Spearman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re Entry and Vehicle Design written by Donald P. Legalley and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballistic Missile and Space Technology, Volume IV: Re-Entry and Vehicle Design focuses on the advancements of processes, methodologies, and technologies involved in re-entry and vehicle design, including hypersonics, material structures, propulsion, and communications. The selection first offers information on the pyrolysis of plastics in a high vacuum arc image furnace and aerothermodynamic feasibility of graphite for hypersonic glide vehicles. Discussions focus on aerothermochemical behavior of graphite, transient heat conduction, equilibrium glide trajectory, and apparatus and pyrolysis procedure. The text then takes a look at an engineering analysis of the weights of ablating systems for manned reentry vehicles and trajectories of lifting bodies entering planetary atmospheres at shallow angles. The manuscript ponders on propulsive control of atmospheric entry lifting trajectories, re-entry engineering mechanics, and rocket casing behavior predicted by laboratory tests. Topics include description of testing program, full-scale casing results, camera design, theoretical correlation, approximate thrust vector optimization, and propellant weight estimation. The selection is a dependable reference for astronauts and researchers interested in re-entry and vehicle design.
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aerodynamic Characteristics of Some Lifting Reentry Concepts Applicable to Transatmospheric Vehicle Design Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wingless Flight written by R. Dale Reed and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Information Output of the Langley Research Center for Calendar Year 1985 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamics of Atmospheric Re Entry written by Frank J. Regan and published by AIAA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Control surface Instabilities on Lifting body Reentry Vehicles at a Mach Number of 15 4 written by Robert Charles Goetz and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wingless Flight the Lifting Body Story written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wingless Flight tells the story of the most unusual flying machines ever flown, the lifting bodies. It is a story about friends and colleagues who committed a significant part of their lives in the 1960s and 1970s to prove that the concept was a viable one for use in spacecraft of the future. This story, filled with drama and adventure, is about the twelve-year period from 1963 to 1975 in which eight different lifting-body configurations flew. The lifting body story covers a little known period at Edwards Air Force Base, and it fills a gap during the transition from space capsules to maneuvering space vehicles. Benefits from this effort immediately influenced the design and operational concepts of the winged NASA Shuttle Orbiter. However, the full benefits would not be realized until the 1990s when new spacecraft such as the X-33 and X-38 would fully employ the lifting-body concept. A lifting body is basically a wingless vehicle that flies due to the lift generated by the shape of its fuselage. Although both a lifting reentry vehicle and a ballistic capsule had been considered as options during the early stages of NASA's space program, NASA initially opted to go with the capsule. A number of individuals were not content to close the book on the lifting-body concept. Researchers including Alfred Eggers at the NASA Ames Research Center conducted early wind-tunnel experiments, finding that half of a rounded nose-cone shape that was flat on top and rounded on the bottom could generate a lift-to-drag ratio of about 1.5 to 1. Meanwhile, aircraft-oriented researchers at the NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) in California were experiencing their own fascination with the lifting-body concept. What followed was history, and telling for the first time in print that historic story of the lifting bodies in full and living detail is what this book is all about. Between 1963 and 1975, eight lifting-body configurations were flown at the NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB. They varied tremendously from the unpowered, bulbous, lightweight plywood M2-F1 to the rocket-powered, extra-sleek, all-metal supersonic X-24B. Some configurations, such as the M2-F2, not only pushed the limits of both design engineers and test pilots but also were dangerous to fly. Film footage of the 1967 crash of the M2-F2, after test pilot Bruce Peterson lost control of this particularly "angry machine," was used about two years later as the lead-in to weekly episodes of a popular television series, The Six-Million-Dollar Man, which ran for about six years. Although the M2-F2 crash was spectacular enough to inspire the concept for a popular television series, it was the only serious accident that occurred over the slightly more than twelve years of lifting-body flight-testing.
Download or read book Research and Technology Program Digest written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Committee's Technical reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.
Download or read book Developing and Flight Testing the HL 10 Lifting Body written by Robert W. Kempel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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