Author: James R. Hansen
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2009-08-13
Total Pages: 990
ISBN-13: 9780160831560
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The airplane ranks as one of history's most ingenious and phenomenal inventions. It has surely been one of the most world changing. How ideas about aerodynamics first came together and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine that it became is the epic story told in this six-volume series, The Wind and Beyond: A Documentary Journey through the History of Aerodynamics in America. Following up on Volume I's account of the invention of the airplane and the creation of the original aeronautical research establishment in the United States, Volume II explores the airplane design revolution of the 1920s and 1930s and the quest for improved airfoils. Subsequent volumes cover the aerodynamics of airships, flying boats, rotary-wing aircraft, breaking the sound barrier, and more.
Author: James R. Hansen
Publisher:
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 957
ISBN-13: 9781437901863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vol. II of NASA¿s six-volume series on the epic story of how ideas about aerodynamics first came together and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine that it became. Following up on Volume one¿s account of the invention of the airplane and the creation of the original aeronautical research establishment in the U.S., Volume II explores the airplane design revolution of the 1920s and 1930s and the quest for improved airfoils. Illustrations.
Author: James R. Hansen
Publisher:
Published: 2015-02-16
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781297046209
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Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1108124542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as they created competing designs that enabled increasingly sophisticated and 'modern' commercial and military aircraft to climb quicker and cruise faster using less power. Reinventing the Propeller nimbly moves from the minds of these inventors to their drawing boards, workshops, research and development facilities, and factories, and then shows us how their work performed in the air, both commercially and militarily. Reinventing the Propeller documents this story of a forgotten technology to reveal new perspectives on engineering, research and development, design, and the multi-layered social, cultural, financial, commercial, industrial, and military infrastructure of aviation.
Author: Jeremy R. Kinney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1107142865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores a technology that transformed airplanes into safe, practical tools of war and a means of transportation during the first half of the twentieth century.