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... , and he takes out a model. The first model of the Shuttle was a straight wing. Again he gets up on the desk and he declares it is stable in two ... with other— '''Lee:''' Yes. Ted Rumsey, or Charles B. Rumsey, who took me under his wing. It was he who really showed me how to do very basics, and I credit ... 'm at the contractors, and someone had—are you familiar that the nose and the wing leading edges are made of carbon-carbon that can take the high heating? Well, they ...

... an enlisted person, a cadet. And when you graduate and are commissioned and receive your wings…, you’re given an honorable discharge from the Navy. Then I served in the Marine ... , McDonnell F2Hs. The squadron, before I left, had converted to Grumman F9-F8s, the swept-wing Cougars. '''Ward:''' So your associations with Grumman began a long time ago. '''Haise:''' Well, if ... the Agency better because of my past experience and Edwards experience with… some degree with winged reentry vehicles, that I could serve better by skipping that and going on to Shuttle ...

... two of us were assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio in the test wing there and spent many, many years working together. These were high-quality people. These were ... helicopters when I came back, and then I had the opportunity to transition to fixed-wing, so I chose fighters. So I moved from helicopters into fighters and was trained as ... -qualified, I would fly a variety of projects in the different kind of platforms, rotary-wing, fighter-type platforms. When I went to Langley, I was loaned to Langley for two ...

... , very nice, very majestic and very stable," he explained. Wing loading refers to the relationship of the aircraft's weight to its wing area. The flights were intended to validate the subscale ... . Continued success of the Prandtl-D aircraft could validate future aircraft designs using the same wing loading, resulting in an 11-percent fuel savings. Another 30 percent fuel savings could be achieved if future designers use the controls benefits of this new wing design to eliminate the use of aircraft tails, thus flying more like birds.

... of the anomaly that lost the Orbital Workshop's meteoroid shield and one solar array wing during launch May 14 reported its findings and recommendations to Dr. James C. Fletcher , NASA ... was struck by the exhaust plume of the 2nd-stage retrorockets. The remaining solar array wing would not deploy until the astronauts cut the strap which had curled around the wing and penetrated the metal fairing housing the array. The Board had found that "the significance ...

... .5-million contract to Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for design, development, and testing of a strengthened wing for the C -5A transport airplane that the New York Times called a symbol of ... 000 flying hours. Even before it had gone into full operational use, the C -5A wing had been shown in static ground tests to be too weak to carry the prescribed ... was in financial difficulty in 1971. In addition to $1.3 billion for fixing the wings, the AF planned to spend another $200 million to fix other defects. Cost of the ...

... aircraft nose giving the ground controller a pilot's-eye view. Use of the oblique wing was a proposal of Dr. Robert T. Jones, senior scientist at Ames Research Center , to ... effectiveness of supersonic aircraft; positioned at right angles to the fuselage in slower flight, the wing would allow landing and takeoff with minimum power and less noise, but rotated with respect to the fuselage it would provide the high speed possible with the swept wing design. Studies indicated possible fuel savings even at speeds up to 1600 kph. (DFRC Release ...

... contract valued at more than $50 million for long lead-time production work on outer wings of the B-1 bomber. Work would cover the first three operational B-1s produced ... . would design and fabricate tools and prepare for actual building of the outer wings. Rockwell Intl. had assembled outer wings for the first three B-1 prototypes, which had already accumulated more ... than 18 m long and 4.5 m wide. Fuel would be stored inside the wing structure. (Rockwell Release LA-5) The European Space Agency announced choice of payloads for its ...

... flow-control technology, depending on smooth airflow over the leading edge of the wings; insects adhering to the wings had made the airflow turbulent, canceling the fuel savings achieved with the laminar flow. NASA had equipped the wings of the test aircraft with a modified leading edge consisting of 5 panels of different ...

... the most visible was their location on the aircraft wing: one had been under the wing as in conventional installations, the other over the wing. Wing flaps in both positions deflected jet exhaust downward ... a $30 million program to develop and demonstrate powered-lift engines (under and over the wing) that could reduce congestion, noise, and air pollution around airports. General Electric Co. had been ...

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