The "Apollo" of aeronautics : NASA's Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program, 1973-1987
The fuel crisis of the 1970s threatened not only the airline industry but also the future of American prosperity itself. It also served as the genesis of technological ingenuity and innovation from a group of scientists and engineers at NASA, who initiated planning exercises to explore new fuel-saving technologies. What emerged was a series of technologically daring aeronautical programs with the potential to reduce by an astonishing 50 percent the amount of fuel used by the nation's commercial and military aircraft.-publisher description
Print Book, English, 2010
National Aeronautics and Space Administration : United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 2010
NASA SP (Series), 574, 2009-574
CD-ROMs
xxiv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
9780160842955, 0160842956
465190382
Oil as a weapon
Threads and sails at Langley
Old and new engines at Lewis
Aeronautics wars at NASA
Advanced turboprops and laminar flow
Epilogue: From shock to trance
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