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... there. They were testing certain sections of the aircraft, for example, a section of the wing or a section of the tail, to see how it would hold up under a ... interested in stresses and strains on the various sections of the aircraft, be it the wing or the tail section or whatever, whatever, and they were always looking for new methods ... or the air flow was stronger or whatever, it would create a pattern on a wing or on the model inside. We’d photograph this so they could study the actual ...

... that form seamless bendable and twistable surfaces. Flight testing will determine whether flexible trailing-edge wing flaps are a viable approach to improve aerodynamic efficiency and reduce noise generated during takeoffs ... developed a variable geometry airfoil system called FlexFoil that can be retrofitted to existing airplane wings or integrated into brand new airframes. FlexFoil’s inventor, FlexSys founder and Chief Executive Officer ...

... Courtesy of NASA). Yes, Icarus. Icarus the Greek who, with his father, Daedalus, fashioned themselves wings so that they could fly like the birds, something they were totally unable to do ... ’s ''Metamorphoses '' (10 AD), Daedalus ”Then thus instructs his child: My boy, take care To wing your course along the middle air; If low, the surges wet your flagging plumes; If ... , written as a play, Menippus (specifically wanting to avoid the failure of Icarus) took one wing from an eagle and another from a vulture, and fashioned them so he could fly ...

... , Boeing Co. Vice President John M. Swihart announced abandonment of swing-wing design for SST in favor of fixed-delta-wing aircraft with four independently mounted engines under triangular tail. Final detailed ... by Jan. 15, 1969, deadline. New design differed from delta-winged Anglo-French Concorde and Soviet Tu-144 in wider wing span and horizontal tail which, according to Boeing Vice President in ... and compensated for more drag en­countered with sweep-back angle of wing. Aircraft cost would be same as swing-wing, $40 million. It would carry same number of passengers, 280 or ...

... power in space, the experiment would verify structural and dynamic characteristics of the solar-array wing, its electrical performance, and the readiness of solar-array technology for planetary- and earth-orbit ... 100 icing specialists, sensor/instrument specialists, meteorologists, and weather forecasters, the workshop had assessed fixed-wing and rotocraft operational icing, evaluated facilities requirements for R&D and certification, examined ways to ...

... unveiled a new stitching machine that experts believed would change the method of fabricating aircraft wing structures. The demonstration took place at Boeing Stitched Composites Development Center in Huntington Beach, California ... layers in the shape of a wing. Next, the machine added braided stiffener materials to the wing, before setting the wing skeleton with resin. The process created a wing as strong as one built ...

... . To avoid similar problems, NASA had instructed the crew to unfold the wings in stages. The crew opened each wing halfway and then waited nearly an hour before proceeding. They allowed the ... scientific experiments, from 15 kilowatts to 30 kilowatts. ''Robert Block, “Space Station’s New Solar Wings Unfurl,” Orlando Sentinel (FL), 21 March 2009; Marcia Dunn for the Associated Press, “Space Station ...

... the areas of tactical reconnaissance and surveillance systems in a variety of fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. He served as Division Chief for testing of Army Scout/Attack aircraft and weapons ... Medal; NATO Medal (second award); Army Service Ribbon; Overseas Service Ribbon; Airborne Wings; Air Assault Wings; Master Army Astronaut Wings; Air Force Space and Missile Badge; Air Force Master Space Badge Russian Medal ...

... Shuttle many years later. '''Wright:''' Between 1960 and ’64, you belonged to the 303rd Bomb Wing of the Strategic Air Command. These were incredibly tense times in terms of the cold ... , and did you have many experiences during those times with these events? '''Fullerton:''' Well, our wing had a nuclear mission and a big bomb in the bomb bay of every airplane ... . I got a chance to fly the F-111 that we had there, a cambering wing, automatic wing shaping internally, that was real interesting. That had been flown, so I got on ...

... , from 40,000 feet down to landing, down to touchdown. The Shuttle is a delta-wing aircraft and it exhibited some of the characteristics that I had grown up with on the B-58, which is a delta-wing aircraft. It’s a short-coupled control system. The elevons that control pitch are pretty ... . They, therefore, have to be very large. They're right on the end of the wing, and they are very large. The pilot, for example, pulls back on the stick to ...

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