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... , and it was dropped. There are stanchions that pick up the wing, that hold the wing up at hard points in the wing structure, and it was dropped on one of these stanchions ... a number of programs or projects that involved a study of nose cones and also wing-body combinations. One of the concerns was, as airplanes fly faster and faster, of course ... things that are going to be impacted, affected by the heating, and leading edges of wings had to be understood and designed. We wanted to understand the kind of heating that ...

... a time getting that information put down on paper. Then I was moved to the Wing Group. In those days, they had all the information on drawings, of course, and when ... . It was an 86 airplane. It started out to be a straight wing, then they decided to build a swept wing. They swept it thirty-five degrees, I believe. So we designed ... landing gears and stuff like that from the landing-gear people, but Grumman built the wing, Fairchild built the vertical tail, General Dynamics at San Diego built the mid-body, and ...

... the launch and conduct of the flights, as they actually took place. They had support wings, one of which was the Mission Planning Division, which I joined. Our function was to ... believe you said 7094. Is that correct? '''Hyle:''' Yes. IBM was the primary computer support wing for NASA in those days. IBM was always Big Blue because they were known to ... loads any larger than this. And the wind loads produced some additional taxing of the wings, over and above the taxing that was the result of the speed and aerodynamics. The ...

... wind tunnel model tested has a 50% greater wingspan than a comparable aircraft with current wing technology. Engineers are using detailed computer modeling of aerodynamics to iterate the design. Using computational ... are analyzing results from the recent test and plan to further explore the wing design. The truss- braced wing is part of NASA’s Advanced Air Transport Technology project, which addresses the ...

... . Whitcomb, head of 8-Foot Tunnels Branch at Langley Research Center and developer of supercritical wing concept, commented on correlation of wind-tunnel and flight- test results. Flight tests of NASA supercritical wing on TF-8A aircraft had demonstrated that new airfoil shape increased flight efficiency at speeds ...

... ). The AFTI F-111 research aircraft was modified with a wing that could change its camber (fore and aft wing curvature) and its wing sweep to adjust to varied flight conditions. NASA expected ... program was intended to demonstrate that smooth variable camber technology showed improvements over current aircraft wing lifting-altering devices in such areas as aircraft payload and range capability, maneuverability, fuel efficiency ...

... ," died at the age of 89. Jones had begun designing the swept-back wings in 1944, when airplane wings were perpendicular to the fuselage, while working at NACA (National Advisory Committee on ... , saving fuel, generating less engine noise, and eliminating the sonic boom. Although Jones's oblique wing design had never advanced beyond the testing stage, some aeronautical designers continued to study its ...

... in those days. '''Brinkley:''' What happened after that moment? '''Armstrong:''' I was flying on the wing of John Carpenter. He was an air force major, on an exchange program with us ... would see them probably more frequently in the air when they were out on our wing tip with an F-104 Starfighter or something. '''Brinkley:''' In this period, the notion of ... we'd had at conferences on these subjects of blunt shapes and flying bodies and winged vehicles and so on, which were the best configurations and what were the pluses and ...

... the first X-planes is expected to be a hybrid wing body shape, where the familiar tube-and-wing instead becomes a wing that blends into the body. It flies the same speeds ... the past decade, NASA and partners have studied the performance and benefits of the hybrid wing body configuration using computers, wind tunnels and even subscale unpiloted flight tests. A lot of ... related to ultra-efficient subsonic aircraft designs in flight – possibilities include very long but narrow wings, forms of electric propulsion, a double-wide fuselage, or engines embedded into the vehicle. And ...

... joint NASA/Navy program to design, develop, and flight test an aeroelastically tailored, pivoting-oblique wing for transonic and supersonic flight evaluation. It was part of a four-phase procurement program ... would also define the aircraft's flight envelope and assess the operational capabilities of oblique wings for potential naval applications. A follow-on contract phase would provide detailed design, fabrication, ground ...

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