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... after a year at Enid, Oklahoma, at Vance Air Force Base, received my Air Force wings, and I was subsequently returned to the Marine Corps to undergo follow-on transition training ... Earth, for the helicopter community, as well as low-altitude tactics training for the fixed-wing. We also were able to incorporate a Senior Officers' Weapons and Tactics Instructors' Course during ... a year as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Second Marine Aircraft Wing, responsible for the operations of some 800 aircraft, 2nd MAW is the largest organization within ...

... in those days, before electronic controls were perfected, stability had to be aerodynamic. And, swept wings posed a big problem there. They had an induced pitch-up; and it would turn ... your input with those? '''Donlan:''' Well, the X-1 was an aspect ratio 6 straight wing airplane. Now, looking back, it seems bizarre that we should ever have hoped a configuration like that would be a transonic airplane. But it did have a thin wing. We had a 6% wing. 8% was the one that Charles E. Yeager flew. '''Slade:''' Yeah. '''Donlan:''' And ...

... the vehicle. You fly a conventional aircraft, you have reference with the nose and the wings and so forth in terms of your attitude and to some extent your deceleration rate ... to cut that material, because we got samples of the same material that held that wing down. That was the instrument that he took out, or the tool he took out ... . With this IR camera during reentry we could photograph the heat flow across the upper wings and find out what the heating values were at any point on the top side ...

... FLIGHT RESEARCH FOR CLEANER, QUIETER AIRCRAFT'' --EDWARDS, Calif. -- NASA's remotely piloted X-48C hybrid-wing-body subscale aircraft, which demonstrates technology concepts for cleaner and quieter commercial air travel, completed ... and safer prototype flight control system suitable for future full-scale commercial hybrid or blended wing aircraft. NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and Boeing funded the X-48 technology demonstration ...

... of motive power,” while in the rocket the “driving power” is “too rapidly spent.” Flapping wings (ornithopters) were also entirely impractical they felt, as well as arrangements with steam boilers or ... machine lifted and propelled horizontally “by the reaction created by gas ejected from a rotating wing. The reaction was to be increased by a system of pipes...similar to injectors...” In ...

... /31/71; SBD, 6/18/71, 258; Pres Rpt 72)'' NASA announced completion of supercritical wing shakedown flights aboard modified USN F-8 jet fighter from FRC. Last flight in eight- flight series to allow test pilots to "get feel" of aircraft and investigate effects on wing at various speeds and altitudes, had taken place May 26. FRc officials reported finding no ... shock wave created in air flow. Effectiveness of supercritical wing depended on moving shock wave to near back of wing for increase in total wing efficiency. ''(NASA Release 71-101)'' Rep. F. Edward ...

... 72-109)'' Ames Research Center scientist Dr. Robert T. Jones was testing theory that antisymmetrical wing pivoting on center point might convert aircraft to supersonic transport without high fuel consumption and ... with similar payloads. As aircraft reached speed and altitude where swept wings were efficient, entire wing would rotate about 45° so that wing on one side would point in direction of flight and ...

... Laboratory had successfully static-tested a full-scale F-15 aircraft wing constructed of advanced composite materials, AFSC announced. The wing had withstood a maximum load 45% greater than expected during actual ... titanium rear spur flange and upper skin were bolted together. The composite wing, 18% lighter than an all metal wing, was made of a brown epoxy thin honeycomb sandwich material reinforced with ... -epoxy stiffeners. The ribs were graphite-epoxy and the spurs were metal. The wing, the largest aircraft wing ever built of advanced composite materials, was 4.9 m wide at the root ...

... . NASA had begun a low-cost study of piloting an oblique-wing aircraft. At lower flight speeds, the wing would orient itself perpendicular to the fuselage, producing efficient quiet operation for takeoff ... , forming oblique (up to 60°) angles with the aircraft fuselage. Studies had suggested the "scissor-wing" concept would offer better flight performance at high speeds; as an aircraft went faster, pivoting ...

... glycol methyl ether (PGME)/water mixture discharged through several slots at the wing leading edge and flowing back over the wing provided ice and insect impact protection. Lockheed-Georgia manufactured the article ... test article for additional insect protection. For additional ice prevention, glycol was forced through the wing's porous metal section of the shield leading edge. McDonnell-Douglas manufactured the article for ...

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