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1 online resource (xviii, 392 pages) : illustrations. |
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computer c rdamedia |
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SP ; 2010-4319 |
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NASA SP (Series) ; 4319.
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Note |
Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 1, 2011). |
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Paper version available for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S.G.P.O. |
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"April 2010." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Premonition : the need for an engine tunnel (1936-1940) -- Building a new type of tunnel design and construction (1940-1943) ; Dual wartime mission : the World War II years (1944-1945) ; Age of the axial flow : alternate wartime mission (1944-1945) ; Will to power : the postwar era (1946-1949) ; A period of transition : big engines to small rockets (1950-1958) ; Space is the place : project Mercury (1959-1960) ; Metamorphosis : wind tunnel to vacuum chamber (1961-1963) ; Space power chambers join the fray : early centaur period (1963-1964) ; Ad astra per aspera : the Centaur/Surveyor missions (1964-1967) ; Alter destiny : Centaur's big payloads (1965-1975) ; Where the wave finally broke : the idle years (1975-2005) ; Death knell : the final days of the altitude wind tunnel/space power chambers (2005-2009). |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
Summary |
"A massive, but little-known, facility in Cleveland, Ohio, played a vital role in the U.S. development of jets, in the training of NASA's first astronauts, and in making NASA's first missions beyond Earth orbit possible. Revolutionary Atmosphere tells the story of this obscure giant. Starting life in 1944 as the Altitude Wind Tunnel, it was the first wind tunnel that could study aircraft engines under realistic flight conditions; and it was enormous-in its original configuration, it could even accommodate full-size aircraft. The tunnel could not only simulate the high speeds of jet aircraft, like other wind tunnels, but could simulate the pressures and temperatures of higher elevation flight."--Publisher description. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Altitude Wind Tunnel (Laboratory) -- History.
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Space Power Chambers (Laboratory) -- History.
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Altitude Wind Tunnel (Laboratory) (OCoLC)fst01775871
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Space Power Chambers (Laboratory) (OCoLC)fst01793184
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Aeronautics -- Research -- United States -- History.
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Space vehicles -- Testing -- History.
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Aeronautics -- Research. (OCoLC)fst00798376
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Space vehicles -- Testing.
(OCoLC)fst01128097
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
United States. NASA History Division.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Arrighi, Robert S., 1969- Revolutionary atmosphere (DLC) 2009018841 (OCoLC)656833674 |
ISBN |
9780160856419 |
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0160856418 |
Gpo Item No. |
0830-I (online) |
Sudoc No. |
NAS 1.21:2010-4319 |
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