Manned Planetary Flight - Where are We Today
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Aeronautical research for today and tomorrow
Future research areas for NASA in private airplanes, subsonic jet transport, and hypersonic flight - general discussion
SUBSONIC AIRCRAFT↗
The airborne dc signal conditioning amplifier yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Airborne signal conditioning amplifier design
AMPLIFIER DESIGN↗
Today's research sets tomorrow's capabilities in space
Technical imponderables and technological innovations needed for space exploration
SPACE EXPLORATION↗
Spacecraft attitude sensors - Where we stand today.
Spacecraft attitude sensor types, principles and future development
ATTITUDE INDICATOR↗
The turbulence problem today
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Dryden, H. L.↗
Delta, today-tomorrow, capabilities, constraints, costs.
Three stage Delta launch vehicle, discussing flight sequence and performance, environments, spacecraft integration, launch operation and total costs
Gunn, C. R.↗
Today and tomorrow
Budgetary cut impact on space programs, and role of technical writer in communicating effects to public
Michel, F. C.↗
Active flexure control today
Active control of flexure degrees of freedom for solving aeroelasticity problems of space shuttle vehicles
Skelton, G. B.↗
Gasdynamics of explosions today.
A brief review is given of blast and detonation wave phenomena and some of their uses in war and peace. It is concluded that great strides have been made over the last three decades toward the physical understanding, the analytical-numerical solution, and the measurement of dynamic and thermodynamic quantities, also taking into consideration severe environments and extremely short durations. Questions of internal ballistics are discussed together with hypervelocity launchers and shock tubes, collapsing cylindrical drivers, spherical implosions, explosive weapons, dynamic response, and equation of state data.
Brode, H. L.↗
Cosmic dust in the atmosphere and in the interplanetary space at 1 AU today and in the early solar system
A description of techniques used in recent experiments to detect and analyze cosmic dust and micrometeorites is given and the results both from the study of lunar crater statistics and from in situ measurements are reviewed. The results from lunar crater statistics show an agreement with the results obtained from in situ measurements in interplanetary space and derived from zodiacal light measurements. The near earth results show an enhancement in the flux numbers. This can be caused either by secondary lunar debris or by disintegration of low density fireballs in the outer atmosphere.
Fechtig, H.↗
The growing importance of costs and ways to maintain cost control on a large program in today's competitive environment
Discussion of management techniques that make it possible to overcome inflationary and developmental cost rises while holding schedule and performance fixed in scientific space programs. The techniques reviewed pertain to high personnel motivation, continual review of contract rigidity for de facto modification by senior judgment, standardization vs design innovation, cooperative customer/contractor goal orientation vs task orientation, and deep real-time management visibility.
Newman, J. J.↗
LTA in the USA - Here's where it stands today
Lighter than air (LTA) vehicles were the first aircraft to fly and, until the disasters of the 1930s, were thought by many to be the primary mode of air transport. The history of LTA in the United States is briefly traced and the reasons for the current revival in interest are discussed. The focal point for this revival was the LTA Workshop hosted by M.I.T. under the joint sponsorship of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Navy, Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation. The Workshop and its results are discussed in detail.
Vittek, J. F., Jr.↗
Air transportation energy consumption - Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
The energy consumption by aviation is reviewed and projections of its growth are discussed. Forecasts of domestic passenger demand are presented, and the effect of restricted fuel supply and increased fuel prices is considered. The most promising sources for aircraft fuels, their availability and cost, and possible alternative fuels are reviewed. The energy consumption by various air and surface transportation modes is identified and compared on typical portal-to-portal trips. A measure of the indirect energy consumed by ground and air modes is defined. Historical trends in aircraft energy intensities are presented and the potential fuel savings with new technologies are discussed.
Mascy, A. C.↗
Information management, today and tomorrow
Current problems and future trends in information management are briefly summarized in relation to scientific and technical information management systems and management of management information (planning, marketing, and operations).
Pryor, H. E.↗
Remote sensing: Snow monitoring tool for today and tomorrow
Various types of remote sensing are now available or will be in the future for snowpack monitoring. Aircraft reconnaissance is now used in a conventional manner by various water resources agencies to obtain information on snowlines, depth, and melting of the snowpack for forecasting purposes. The use of earth resources satellites for mapping snowcovered area, snowlines, and changes in snowcover during the spring has increased during the last five years. Gamma ray aircraft flights, although confined to an extremely low altitude, provide a means for obtaining valuable information on snow water equivalent. The most recently developed remote sensing technology for snow, namely, microwave monitoring, has provided initial results that may eventually allow us to infer snow water equivalent or depth, snow wetness, and the hydrologic condition of the underlying soil.
Rango, A.↗
Remote sensing and today's forestry issues
The actual and the desirable roles of remote sensing in dealing with current forestry issues, such as national forest policy, supply and demand for forest products and competing demands for forest land are discussed. Topics covered include wood shortage, regional timber inventories, forests in tropical and temperate zones, Skylab photography, forest management and protection, available biomass studies, and monitoring.
Sayn-Wittgenstein, L.↗
A synopsis of the weather problems facing today's general aviation pilots
Concentration on weather to data has primarily been at the point of observation. There have been efforts to obtain and disseminate en route weather through pilot reports (PIREPS), but the efforts have been meager. What is needed is the cooperative efforts on the application of technology to the acquisition and dissemination of the en route weather data for those pilots in the air as well as those who are flight planning on the ground. A comprehensive three-dimensional computer storage system is proposed that receives weather information from all aircraft on IFR flight plans and stores this information by altitude and geographic coordinates. Also, a report on the Federal Aviation Administration's Research Engineering and Development Aviation Weather Program from the aspect of past, present and future is given.
Pope, J. C.↗