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... included in the Apollo project . (They were…using the word "Apollo" even before President John F. Kennedy announced it.) He said that the kind of work that MIT was doing was ... a triplex system, three computers. Actually…the idea was to test these computers in this F-8 system, because they would be part of the shuttle. But the IBM computers were ... certainly nobody thought that we could do it in the time schedule that President John F. Kennedy was talking about. '''Wright:''' When you heard the announcement from him, what were your ...

... 460th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in Klamath Falls, Oregon, at Kingsley Air Force Base. I flew F-106s for a year—really enjoyed it, and then was selected to the Aerospace Research ... of fun. I mean, I don’t remember any particular things. I remember Bill William F. Fisher always had a lot of good jokes that he would tell. On our trips ... Annapolis, Maryland ; I was Air Force Academy; Bob Robert C. Springer was Naval Academy. James F. Buchli was from the Naval Academy. Anna was the MS-2, and I used to ...

... pilot training when I graduated. I flew a couple of tours in the McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle , one at Langley in Virginia, Langley Air Force Base, and then we went ... weekend, gave it to him that morning. Sure enough, he took off, jumped in an F-4, flew to Randolph, delivered the applications. Then time passes from the time they’re ... it was coming. I didn’t know who the whole crew was. I knew Charles F. Charlie Bolden Jr. was going to be the commander, and I was ecstatic with that ...

... . Image:1959-07-03 002 Avro Gordon.jpg thumb right '''Announcement that Canada was buying F-104G from Lockheed (July 1959)''' The parliamentary opposition accused the government of buying an untested ... 10 Instead the government allowed Avro to build an inferior General Electric engine for the F-104s, effectively saving a quarter of the jobs recently lost. The Commonwealth Space Symposium While ...

... Engineering for assistance with the GEOB algorithm, which greatly improved the manuscript. References 1 Markley, F. L. and Crassidis, J. L., Fundamentals of Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, Vol. 33, Springer ... survey of attitude representations,” Navigation, Vol. 8, No. 9, 1993, pp. 439–517. 5 Markley, F. L., Crassidis, J. L., and Cheng, Y., “Nonlinear attitude filtering methods,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and ...

... a few kHz, between 0.2 and 0.4 times the local electron cyclotron frequency, f ce. These waves are termed chorus; they travel through the magnetosphere in the ... , 137- 156. note 7 Fritz, T.A. and S. F. Fung (eds), 2005, The magnetospheric cusps: Structure and dynamics, Surveys in Geophysics, 26, 1- 414 ... , Cambridge University Press, 289 pp. note 13 Lemaire, J. F. and K. I. Gringauz, 1998, The Earth’s plasmasphere, Cambridge University Press, 350 pp.

... for France and West Germany as the first of two experimental communications satellites. Intelsat-IV F-8 was launched for Communications Satellite Corp. on behalf of the Interna-tional Telecommunications Satellite ... environmental effects, improve safety, and advance technology continued during the year. Flight tests of an F-111 equipped with the NASA-developed supercritical wing demonstrated a 15% reduction in fuel consumption ...

... designed for their mission since the wedding of the jet engine and modern avionics. The F-111A, they predict, will let them hit tactical targets harder, with greater accuracy, and at longer ranges than any other airplane. . . ." Accelerated F-111A testing and training program begun at Nellis AFB , Nev., in July had accumulated encouraging ...

... Dynamics Corp. instead of Boeing Co. as prime contractor was result of "political consideration," that F-111 suffered from excessive flight restrictions, that it was unsafe, and that it was "operational flop." To charge that cost escalation of F-111 program had been excessive, Fricker delivered verdict "Guilty, with mitigating circumstances"-factory, engineering, and ...

... Dynamics Corp. instead of Boeing Co. as prime contractor was result of "political consideration," that F-111 suffered from excessive flight restrictions, that it was unsafe, and that it was "operational flop." To charge that cost escalation of F-111 program had been excessive, Fricker delivered verdict "Guilty, with mitigating circumstances"-factory, engineering, and ...

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