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

Название: Probing the Sky: Selected NACA Research Airplanes and Their Contributions to Flight
Автор: Curtis Peebles
Издательство: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Год: 2014
Страниц: 344
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 18 MB

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.