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Guide to e-Book Formats
Kindle
.mobi, .azw, .txt, .prc
Kindle DX
.mobi, .azw, .txt, .prc, .pdf
Nook and iPad
Note: For the iPad, the iBook will read ePub and pdf
.epub, .pdf
Sony Reader
.epub, .BBeB, .pdf
NOTE: CTRL-click to save file
(Mac and PC).
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Many of the biggest achievements in aeronautics research are chronicled
in books rich with detail, personal stories, surprising twists of fate
and revolutionary discoveries that have influenced the experience of
flight for millions of people.
These books are now being converted for download and use on digital
reading devices such as the Kindle™, SONY® Reader and the
nook™.
To use, download the file to your computer and then drag and drop onto
your reading device.
Hard copies are typically available 8-10 weeks after the e-book posting.
If you cannot find the book at your local bookseller, it might be
available through either the U.S. Government Printing Office or through
NASA Headquarters' Information Center.
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BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW
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Crash Course: Lessons Learned from Accidents Involving Remotely Piloted and Autonomous Aircraft
by Peter W. Merlin
(posted March 15, 2013)
This volume contains an investigation of remotely piloted research
vehicle (RPRV) and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) mishaps and will
examine their causes, consequences, resultant corrective actions, and
lessons learned. Most undesired outcomes usually do not occur because of
a single event, but rather from a series of events and actions involving
equipment malfunctions and/or human factors. This book comprises a
series of case studies focusing mostly on accidents and incidents
involving experimental aircraft. The information provided should be of
use to flight-test organizations, aircraft operators, educators, and
students, among others. These lessons are not unique to the UAS
environment and are also applicable to human aviation and space flight
activities. Common elements include crew resource management, training,
mission planning issues, management and programmatic pressures (e.g.,
schedule, budget, resources), cockpit/control station design, and other
factors.
Downloads:
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+ .epub
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Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space
by Roger D. Launius and Dennis R. Jenkins
(posted December 11, 2012)
The technologies for the reentry and recovery from space might change
over time, but the challenge remains one of the most important and
vexing in the rigorous efforts to bring spacecraft and their crews and
cargo home successfully. Returning to Earth after a flight into space is
a fundamental challenge, and contributions from the NASA Aeronautics
Research Mission Directorate in aerodynamics, thermal protection,
guidance and control, stability, propulsion, and landing systems have
proven critical to the success of the human space flight and other space
programs. Without this base of fundamental and applied research, the
capability to fly into space would not exist.
Downloads:
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+ .epub
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Dressing for Altitude: U.S. Aviation Pressure Suits—Wiley Post to Space Shuttle
by Dennis Jenkins
(posted August 31, 2012)
NASA has published a colorful, picture-filled book that details the
development and use of the protective clothing worn by test pilots,
astronauts and others as they soar through the rarified atmosphere high
above the Earth.
Dressing for Altitude: U.S. Aviation Pressure Suits – Wiley Post to
Space Shuttle provides within its 526 pages an extensive survey of the
partial- and full-pressure suits designed to keep humans alive at the
edge of space since their first use during the years before World War
II.
Downloads:
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+ .pdf |
+ .epub
Order print copies:
NASA's Information Center
(NOTE: Click on "Request Form" at the top of the left column; use SP number "SP-2011-595" and the cost is $75 per copy.)
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Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development
by Peter W. Merlin, Gregg A. Bendrick, and Dwight A. Holland
(posted June 2012)
This volume contains a collection of case studies of mishaps involving
experimental aircraft, aerospace vehicles, and spacecraft in which human
factors played a significant role. In all cases the engineers involved,
the leaders and managers, and the operators (i.e., pilots and
astronauts) were supremely qualified and by all accounts superior
performers. Such accidents and incidents rarely resulted from a single
cause but were the outcome of a chain of events in which altering at
least one element might have prevented disaster. As such, this work is
most certainly not an anthology of blame. It is offered as a learning
tool so that future organizations, programs, and projects may not be
destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. These lessons were learned
at high material and personal costs and should not be lost to the pages
of history.
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+ .epub
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Aeronautics Collection of Technical Memorandums
Select Technologies That Have Shaped Modern Aviation
by Clayton J. Bargsten and Malcolm T. Gibson
(posted September 2011)
This collection of short papers provides a helpful account of the
development of a number of key aviation technologies: chevron nozzles,
winglets, composite structures, ADS-B, synthetic vision systems and
FACET. These technologies were chosen to demonstrate the diversity and
profound impact NASA has had, and will forever have, on the aviation
industry.
Downloads:
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"NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 2"
Edited by Richard P. Hallion
(posted September 2010)
The second volume includes case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research
for contributions including wind shear and lightning research, flight
operations, human factors, wind tunnels, composite structures, general
aviation aircraft safety, supersonic cruise aircraft research and
atmospheric icing.
Downloads:
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+ .prc |
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+ .epub
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"NASA's Contributions to Aeronautics, Volume 1"
Edited by Richard P. Hallion
(posted August 2010)
Since its creation, NASA has steadily advanced flight within the
atmosphere, repeatedly influencing aviation's evolution by extending the
rich legacy of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, or NACA. This first volume in a two-volume set includes
case studies and essays on NACA-NASA research for contributions such as
high-speed wing design, the area rule, rotary-wing aerodynamics
research, sonic boom mitigation, hypersonic design, computational fluid
dynamics, electronic flight control and environmentally friendly
aircraft technology.
Downloads:
+ .mobi |
+ .prc |
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"Modeling Flight"
by Joseph R. Chambers
(posted July 2010)
For years, NASA has used subscale models of aircraft to test how they
would perform at full size. In fact, since the 1920s during the days of
the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, scientists have
continually refined testing techniques including building and using new
facilities, making models more sophisticated and learning how to best
interpret the results. Using these techniques, NASA has made many
contributions to a broad range of aircraft including general aviation,
fighters, civil transports, lifting bodies, reentry capsules, parawing
vehicles, and supersonic transports. This book describes the issues that
must be considered when transferring subscale results to full-scale
application, and reviews results obtained in historically significant
aircraft programs conducted at NASA's Langley Research Center, NASA's
Dryden Flight Research Center, and NASA's Ames Research Center.
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"Apollo of Aeronautics: NASA's Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program, 1973-1987"
by Mark D. Bowles
(posted April 2010)
The fuel crisis of the 1970s threatened not only the airline industry
but also the future of American prosperity itself. It also served as the
genesis of technological ingenuity and innovation from a group of
scientists and engineers at NASA, who initiated planning exercises to
explore new fuel-saving technologies. What emerged was a series of
technologically daring aeronautical programs with the potential to
reduce by an astonishing 50 percent the amount of fuel used by the
nation's commercial and military aircraft.
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"Ikhana: Unmanned Aircraft System, Western States Fire Missions"
by Peter W. Merlin
(posted January 2010)
The story of the Ikhana, a remotely piloted vehicle used by NASA
researchers to conduct Earth science research and which became an
unexpected flying and imaging helper to emergency workers battling
California wildfires.
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"X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight"
by Dennis R. Jenkins
(posted December 2009)
The X-15 was the ultimate "X" vehicle. Built in the 1950s, she became
the fastest and highest-flying winged aircraft of its time. During 199
flights from 1959 through 1968, she collected data about hypersonic
flight that was invaluable to aeronautics and to developers of the space
shuttle. This book describes the genesis of the program, the design and
construction of the aircraft, years of research flights and the
experiments that flew aboard them.
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