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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 1064
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two-volume collection of case studies on aspects of NACA-NASA research by noted engineers, airmen, historians, museum curators, journalists, and independent scholars. Explores various aspects of how NACA-NASA research took aeronautics from the subsonic to the hypersonic era.-publisher description.
Author: Erik M. Conway
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1421410435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, military/NASA contractors, private investors, and environmentalists. He documents post-World War II efforts at the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and the Defense Department to generate supersonic flight technologies, the attempts to commercialize these technologies by Britain and the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, environmental campaigns against SST technology in the 1970s, and subsequent attempts to revitalize supersonic technology at the end of the century. High-Speed Dreams is a sophisticated study of politics, economics, nationalism, and the global pursuit of progress. Historians, along with participants in current aerospace research programs, will gain valuable perspective on the interaction of politics and technology.
Author: F. Edward McLean
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This document provides a historic perspective of supersonic cruise technology, beginning with the early NACA supersonic research and including efforts during the B-70 and SST phase. It also records technological progress made in the NASA SCR and VCE programs." -- Foreward.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 392
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