Wingless Flight
Subtitle: The Lifting Body Story
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780813190266
Subjects: Astronautics; Popular science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Aircraft Design And Construction; Transportation; Science/Mathematics; Aeronautics & Astronautics; History; Aviation - General
First sentence: My Journey in February 1953 to the NACA High Speed Flight Research Station (as the Muroc Flight Test Unit had come to be called in 1949) actually began about a decade earlier in two smalI mountain towns in Idaho, about as far from the center of aerospace innovation as one can get.