Research Catalog

Title

Eleven seconds into the unknown : a history of the hyper-X program / Curtis Peebles ; Ned Allen, eitor-in-chief.

Author

Peebles, Curtis.

Publication

Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, c2011.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Allen, Ned.

Description

xv, 342 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Eleven Seconds into the Unknown: A History of the Hyper-X Program is a sequel to the author's first book on the X-43A/Hyper-X project, Road to Mach 10: Lessons Learned from the X-43A Flight Research Program.
• The Hyper-X program involved the efforts of numerous governmental and commercial organizations, each with its own culture, experience, and tradition. A central theme of the Hyper-X story is how these disparate groups and organizations became a unified team working toward a common goal. Making the team's task more difficult were the technological, political, and funding challenges during nearly fifty years of scramjet development.
• Eleven Seconds into the Unknown: A History of the Hyper-X Program addresses these issues in compelling fashion, and will appeal to anyone interested in high-speed flight, aerospace history, the organization and management of technological projects, and the future of spaceflight. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Library of flight

Uniform Title

Library of flight.

Subject

• Dryden Flight Research Facility > History
• Hypersonic planes > Research > United States
• X-43A (Hypersonic plane)

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The quest for hypersonic flight -- Hypersonic reentry -- Hypersonic air-breathing propulsion -- Development of airframe-integrated scramjets -- The birth of the hyper-x -- From concepts to a flight reseach plan -- Hyper-x scramjet development -- Hyper-x stage separation risk mitigation testing -- X-43A reseach vehicle design and construction -- Getting ready: testing the hyper-x -- Lock the doors... -- Toward the unknown -- Looking back, looking forward.

ISBN

• 9781600867767
• 1600867766

LCCN

^^2010044977

OCLC

683247680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library