FlightTime Incorporated, 1965 - 200 עמודים This book covers the history of flight, the theory of aerodynamics, propulsion, navigation and air-traffic control, testing [and] design....[It includes] a glossary of airmen's slang. |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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aerial aerodynamic aeronautical ailerons Air Force airflow airliner airplane airplane's airport altimeter altitude angle of attack aviation balloon basic beam Bell X-1 biplane birds Boeing boundary layer built cargo Cayley Chan climbed cockpit craft created curved delta wing drag efficient feet fighter flaps flew flow forward fuel fuselage gine glider ground horsepower hypersonic increase instruments jet engine jetliners Kitty Hawk landing leading edge level flight lift Lilienthal load Louis Blériot Mach miles an hour miles per hour monocoque monoplane moving NASA navigation nose operate Orville panel passengers payload pilot plane pounds power plant powered flight pressure problem produced propeller propulsion radar radio ramjet range ratio route rudder runway sailplane shock waves sonic speed of sound stability structure subsonic supersonic transport surface tail takeoff thrust tion turbofan turbojet turn vertical VTOL wheel Wilbur wing wing's World Wright brothers