Research Catalog

Title

• Wingless flight : the lifting body story / R. Dale Reed, with Darlene Lister ; foreword by Chuck Yeager.

Author

Reed, R. Dale, 1930-

Publication

Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Superintendent of Documents, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Lister, Darlene, 1945-

Description

xxvi, 230 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• NASA SP ; 4220
• The NASA history series

Uniform Title

• NASA SP (Series) 4220.
• NASA history series

Subject

• Lifting bodies (Aeronautics) > United States > History
• Lifting bodies > United States > History
• NASA Dryden Flight Research Center > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.

Contents

1. The adventure begins -- 2. "Flying bathtub" -- 3. Commitment to risk -- 4. On to the heavyweights -- 5. Angry machines -- 6. Back to the drawing board -- 7. Wingless flight matures -- 8. Lifting-body racehorses -- 9. Wingless flight lives on.

ISBN

0160493900

LCCN

^^^97040547^

OCLC

37675812

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library