When asked about his processes in designing a new airplane, Burt Rutan responded: "...there is always a performance requirement. So I start with the basic physics of an airplane that can get those requirements, and that pretty much sizes an airplane... Then I look at the functionality... And then I try a lot of different configurations to meet that, and then justify one at a time, throwing them out... Typically I'll have several different configurations... But I like to experiment, certainly. I like to see if there are other ways to provide the utility." This kind of thinking-engineering as a total systems engineering approach-is what is being instilled in all engineers at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
Doing systems engineering without thinking about it at NASA Dryden flight research center
2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 4350-4365
2005-01-01
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Conference paper
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Doing Systems Engineering Without Thinking About It at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005
|NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
NTRS | 2009
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