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Title Aerospace design : aircraft, spacecraft, and the art of modern flight / edited by Anthony M. Springer.

Imprint New York : Merrell, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  629.13334 Ae82d 2003    ---  Available
Description 191 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 30 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.186-187).
Note Published in association with NASA.
Contents Why do airplanes look the way they do? / Tom D. Crouch -- Airplane and the streamline idiom in the United States / Dominick A. Pisano -- Design for performance : the role of aesthetics in the development of aerospace vehicles / John D. Anderson, Jr. -- Beauty in the beast : form and function in the early development of wind tunnels / James R. Hansen -- Indispensable ingredient : flight research and aircraft design / Michael H. Gorn -- Designing for the edge of space and beyond / Dennis R. Jenkins -- Future of flight / Anthony M. Springer.
Subject Aerospace engineering.
Airplanes -- Design and construction.
Space vehicles -- Design and construction.
Aeronautics.
Added Author Springer, Anthony M.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
ISBN 1858942071

 
    
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