Touchdown: The Development of Propulsion Controlled Aircraft at NASA Dryden

ISBN-13: 9781478266662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 62 str.

Tom Tucker

Opis

This monograph relates the important history of the Propulsion Controlled Aircraft project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. Spurred by a number of airplane crashes caused by the loss of hydraulic flight controls, a NASA-industry team lead by Frank W. Burcham and C. Gordon Fullerton developed a way to land an aircraft safely using only engine thrust to control the airplane.