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... history of technology, and projections of possible uses of technology in the near future. ( LaRC Release 78-29) LaRC announced it would hold a conference on safety, occupational medicine, and environmental health ... -18, with about 60 representatives from all NASA centers attending. Welcoming remarks by Fred Bowen, LaRC technical manager for management operations, would cover audiometric testing, types of hearing loss, rehabilitative techniques ...

... input, or a pilot could take over control if necessary. A primary tool in the LaRC analysis had been a reentry flight dynamics simulator (RFDS) that permitted evaluation of the onboard ... and toggle switches would permit the pilot to take over any of the control functions. LaRC investigators had found that the system was dangerously sensitive to possible sensed angle-of-attack ... U.S. Navy, a Navy experimental plane would undergo in-place tethered-flight testing at LaRC 's Impact Dynamics Research Facility, the Langley Researcher reported. The Navy's XFV-12A plane ...

... reducing fuel consumption and noise and on economic considerations needed updating. LaRC would manage the work at the contractors' facilities. ( LaRC Release 80-29; NASA Release 80-51) WFC awarded a $1 ... turn over future work to the Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications at NASA Headquarters. LaRC was chosen for its experience in remote-sensing research and in developing advanced instrumentation. Other ...

... of all aircraft wings. Developed by aeronautical designer Dr. Richard T. Whitcomb, recently retired from LaRC , the concept had been tested on several types of small aircraft but not on a ... turn of the century but neglected since then because of patent and flight-handling considerations. LaRC found that home-built airplane kits that used the canard to increase fuel efficiency also had impressive records of stall-spin safety. Tests of a model in LaRC 's spin tunnel showed that with proper loading the plane was "virtually impossible to spin ...

... site near Sandbridge, Va., Univ. of Michigan team photographed solar corona and Langley Research Center LaRC experimenter photographed solar flash spectrum that was too weak to be seen when sun was ... Sandbridge, Va., to photograph faint comets believed to be near sun. At Langley Research Center LaRC , Univ. of Colorado scientists used optical assembly for two Wallaston prisms on Langley Research Center ...

... the U.S. Martin Marietta had been prime contractor for the Viking spacecraft Viking project. LaRC said that G. Calvin Broome, Viking spacecraft Viking mission director, would become Viking spacecraft Viking ... , and geology; advanced scientific planning, programming, and technology; extraterrestrial materials research; and flight-program support. ( LaRC Release 76-40,; NASA Hq special anno., 5 Nov 76) After a series of technical ...

... helicopter program and coordinate research between ARC and the Langley and Lewis Research Center s. LaRC , working mainly on helicopter structures, would continue its studies of acoustics, airfoils, aeroelasticity, and avionics ... were in progress, and visit the Cape Canaveral Air Force station. (KSC Release 87-77) LaRC announced that Dr. Charles Thiel, director of the Natl. Science Foundation's advanced environmental research ...

... this information had prevented accurate long-range weather forecasting. LaRC research had shown the sensitivity of microwave scatterometers to sea-surface winds; LaRC 's sensor for SEASAT contained a scatterometer able to measure wind speed and direction over a thousand-kilometer area. ( LaRC Release 77-20) ARC reported successful completion May 19 of a test to qualify the ... 's program to increase by 50% the fuel efficiency of civilian transport aircraft. LaRC would manage the contract. ( LaRC Release 77-22; NASA Release 77-108) April 1977 April May 1977 May ...

... selections in Dec. 1977. (NASA Release 77-145; Johnson Space Center JSC Release 77-39) LaRC announced it would dedicate on July 19 the site of a new wind tunnel, the ... Force for research and development; Donald F. Hearth, LaRC director; and Oran W. Nicks, LaRC deputy director. A display of aircraft developed from LaRC transonic research would include a B-747 freighter; a ... laboratory; a T-38 jet trainer; and a UH-1H helicopter. (NASA Release 77-144; LaRC Release 77-29) June 1977 June July 1977 July Jul 1 1977 1 Jul 2 ...

... for inventions and scientific and technical contributions: Robert L. Trimpi, LaRC, $3,000; Charles H. McLellan, LaRC, $2,000; James H. Schrader, LaRC, $1,500; Jesse M. Madey and Xopher W. Moyer, GSFC ... to Mercury-Redstone , Saturn, and Nova boosters; and to Dr. John C. Houbolt , formerly of LaRC, for work on lunar orbit rendezvous. The NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership was presented to ...

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