 | Cooking - 1960 - 432 pages
...18. QQ JOHN P. (JACK) REEDER, '38e, OO °f Newport News, Va., head of the Flight Operations Branch at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, several months ago was chosen to receive the 1959 Octave Chanute Award given annually by the Institute... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics - Astronauts - 1959 - 44 pages
...ejected and a parachute lowered the capsule to the water where it was recovered by helicopter. Scientists at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration conducted water-landing tests of wooden mockups of a capsule concept proposed to carry a man in space... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1962 - 484 pages
...1/20-scale model typical of an unswept-wing observation airplane was built and, prepared for testing at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A photograph showing the model in the normal flying configuration is shown in figure 1. A three-view... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1967 - 912 pages
...flexible wing concept originated in 1948 by Francis M. Rogallo, head of the low speed vehicles branch at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In 1961 AVLABS engineers began experimenting with the flexible wing concept— from which the Parawing... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1971 - 1006 pages
...spacecraft upon reentry into the earth's atmosphere, several laboratory-generated plasmas have been used at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. One such plasma was generated with helium gas by means of a rectangular laminated cathode (ref. 1).... | |
 | Marcelle Size Knaack - Airplanes, Military - 1978 - 380 pages
...potbellied X-5 — America's first swingwing airplane — and US Navy's Grumman XF-10F. The F-111's two-pivot, variable-sweep wing, as opposed to the...cancelled its March 1958 GOR (No. 169) on 29 March 1959, on the belief that, after all, vertical takeoff had not yet arrived. System Development Requirement... | |
 | Laurence K. Loftin - Transportation - 1985 - 578 pages
...of 1967 when this historic aircraft, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum, was exhibited at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The gentleman in the photograph is Dr. Floyd L. Thompson,... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Astronautics - 1964 - 154 pages
...Educational Programs and Services Langley Research Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration At the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, training is vital to the success of our efforts to push forward the frontiers of aerospace flight.... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1961 - 912 pages
...wing-sweep angle. The transformation of opinion grew out of new variablesweep design ideas generated at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the ever-deepening problem of combining good supersonic and subsonic flight characteristics into... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Aerodynamics - 1973 - 936 pages
...all the power were expended through the main drive fans. INTRODUCTION The 16-foot transonic tunnel at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is a single-return atmospheric wind tunnel having a slotted transonic test section with a Mach number... | |
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An extensive program of electric-arc air heater development has been carried on at the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the past few years as a result of the urgent need for high- temperature aerodynamic... 
