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... securing mechanism on SAS Wing 2 and the wing ripped off. A piece of shield had wrapped around SAS Wing 1 and kept it from deploying. Loss of the wings, which were to provide ... delay of the Skylab 2 launch beyond May 20. Astronauts would also inspect the solar wings, but whether they could make repairs was uncertain. The Skylab 2 crew returned to JSC ... had lost 1.8 kg (4 lbs). Top Skylab officials at MSFC agreed that solar wing deployment techniques developed by Astronaut Schweickart were feasible, without unusual safety hazards. On June 6 ...

... out, there were two concepts that Faget had: one was for a straight wing vehicle, the other a delta wing concept. He felt there might be some benefits to having short, stubby ... reducing lift on the Gulfstream. What we did was to have Grumman modify the wing to provide large wing flaps. These were then modulated by the simulation as a function of the ... and the relative wind vector as measured in real time) to match the Shuttle’s wing lift characteristics. Then, you had a very sophisticated closed loops digital computer system developed by ...

... for carrier qualifications in gunnery, and then to NAS Kingsville, Texas, where I got my wings in the spring of 1970. Again, Marines kept having an influence on me, even through ... little kids. '''Johnson:''' Did the other crewmembers that had flown before take you under their wing, as far as making you aware of what was going to happen? '''Bolden:''' Yes. Hoot ... still train like that, although I always flew with people who would invariably want to wing it, because they prided themselves in having photographic memories or stuff like that. The Orbiter ...

... aircraft configurations, and we had a standard body configuration with different wings on it. We had the swept wings, the straight wings, delta wings in that particular program. An example of what could be ... cylinders being cut and grooves put in them and things like that, including the wings. Many times the wings were built of aluminum and wood, or later on, all aluminum. So there ... influence coefficients with it, which is holding the model rigid and flexing the wing to see how flexible the wing was, because ideally we’d like something absolutely rigid, so there was ...

... efficiency and for short takeoff capability call for maximum lift from the wing area. In other words, you need wings swept fully forward. On the other hand, super-sonic low altitude flight ... the body design itself provides sufficient lift to support flight; and additional wing area only induces instability. At altitude more wing area is required, but the higher speeds obtainable dictate either very ...

... Research Center was conducting tests on a Douglas P5D aircraft with a specially designed planform wing that might minimize landing speeds for the proposed supersonic transport. A tornado-like flow, called ... before touching down. Existence of this tornado-like flow along the leading edges of the wing encouraged the belief that a supersonic airliner might be built without resorting to variable-sweep ...

... flight with both high-lift maneuvering and off-design performance, and determine sensitivity of supercritical wing to wing-contour variations associated with manufacturing processes and deformations due to flight loads. ''(NASA Release ... -hr maiden flight. Waddell returned aircraft to field after encountering "minor malfunction" of wing surface control while lowering wing flaps to 30° angle. Later he said aircraft was "a pilot's dream ...

... "the absolute minimum within the design requirements" and denied any company plan to replace the wings later when they should prove unsatisfactory. The 10,000-pound weight reduction apparently caused cracks in the aircraft calling for wing replacement: "Ormsby did not explain .why Lockheed did not know that the modification would reduce ...

... increasing lift. Consequently Sänger came up with a design that could have a relatively small wing arrangement with sharp leading edges and a wide flat-bottomed fuselage. Some engineers have suggested ... to the unprecedented stresses and strains of hypersonic flight the standard approach of building a winged vehicle would be insufficient. The aerodynamic experts had to liaise with the structural and materials ...

... to fifty engineers, who were doing basic aerodynamic research, in such areas as forward swept wings, supercritical airfoils, advanced analytical aircraft design techniques, inlets, axisymmetric nozzles, and computational fluid dynamics. It ... debris. Of particular interest to the investigators was the debris associated with Columbia’s left wing. A three dimensional reconstruction of that structure was being assembled to better understand what happened ...

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