This NASA SP will discuss the discovery of airflow compressibility and the early X-planes used to explore the phenomena, as well as other discoveries that paved the way for modern aircraft design.
Probing the Sky: Selected NACA Research Airplanes and Their Contributions to Flight
2014
344 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Test Facilities & Equipment , Research aircraft , Acoustic velocity , D-558 aircraft , X-3 aircraft , Northrop aircraft , X-5 aircraft , Fighter aircraft , Aircraft design , Wind tunnel tests , Histories , Research and development , Supersonic flight , Transonic flight , Hypersonic flight
Probing the sky : selected NACA research airplanes and their contributions to flight
TIBKAT | 2014
|NACA procedure for flight test of aileron characteristics of airplanes
Engineering Index Backfile | 1943
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