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WIND TUNNELS OF
NASA
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- [The 16-foot wind tunnel
at Ames Research Center]
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- Foreword.
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- Chapter 1: Whirling Arms and the First Wind
Tunnels.
- On the End of a
Whirling Arm.
- Looking for
Something Better.
- Flight Before
Flying.
- The Wright Brothers
Put It All Together.
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- Chapter 2: A Heritage Lost and
Regained.
- The Wind Tunnel
Comes of Age.
- An Earthbound
American Aeronautical Pioneer.
- The European
Tunnels.
- Europe's Second
Generation of Tunnels.
- What Was America
Doing All This Time?.
- NACA Wind Tunnel
No. 1.
- The Variable
Density Tunnel and Scale Effects.
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- Chapter 3: Through the Barnstorming Days to
World War II.
- Building a Wind
Tunnel Complex at Langley.
- NACA Cleans Up
Aircraft Designs.
- A Depression
Bargain: The Full-Scale Tunnel.
- Wind Tunnels
Accelerate to Mach 1.
- The First Big
High-Speed Tunnel.
- Free Flight of Wind
Tunnel Models.
- A Nineteen-Foot,
High-Pressure Giant.
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- Chapter 4: Proppellers to Jets: The impetus
of World War II.
- The War-time
Tunnels at Ames.
- Filling a Wind
Tunnel with Water.
- A Sixteen-Foot Twin
on the East Coast.
- Two End-of-the-War
Workhorses.
- Ironing Out the
Eddies.
- Tailspin: The
Pilots' Terror.
- Swirl and
Turn.
- A Tunnel for
Engines.
- "Hot Jobs for a
Cold Tunnel".
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- Chapter 5: The era of High-Speed
Flight.
- How Supersonic and
Subsonic Tunnels Differ.
- The First Round of
Big Supersonic Tunnels.
- The Scotch Tape
Enigma.
- Ballistic Missiles
and Spacecraft Penetrate the Hypersonic Range.
- NACA's First
Hypersonic Tunnels.
- A Wind Tunnel
Firing Range.
- A High Pressure
Tank Farm at Langley.
- The Slotted Wall
Revolutionizes Transonic Research.
- The Area Rule and
the F-102 Story.
- New Round of
Transonic Tunnels.
- Coordination and
Cooperation: The National Unitary Plan.
- The Ames Unitary
Plan Wind Tunnel Complex.
- A Small Tunnel for
Fast Missiles.
- Testing Full-Size
Supersonic Jet Engines.
- An Exercise in
Wind Tunnel Complexity.
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- Chapter 6: Wind Tunnels in the Space
Age.
- How ICBMs Are
Spared Thermal Destruction.
- New Goals as NACA
Becomes Part of NASA.
- NASA Wind Tunnnels:
Early Thoughts.
- The Langley
Carry-Over Tunnels.
- Needed: Air Hotter
Than the Sun's Surface.
- Types of Reentry
test Facilities.
- Conventional
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel.
- Impulsive Wind
Tunnels.
- The Expansion
Tube.
- Advanced
Counterflow Tunnels.
- Arc-Jets.
- Facilities
Employing Test Gases Other Than Air.
- The Roles of Ames,
Langley, and Lewis in Hypersonic Research.
- Hypersonic and
Space-Oriented Wind Tunnels at Ames.
- Langley's New
Space-Related Wind Tunnels.
- Testing a
Hypersonic Ramjet at Lewis Research Center.
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- Chapter 7: The Post-Sputnik Renaissance of
Aeronautics.
- The New NASA
Aeronautical Wind Tunnels.
- The Role of Wind
Tunnels in Modern Aeronautical Research.
- Spacecraft in
Terrestrial Wind Tunnels.
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- Chapter 8: The Wind Tunnels of the
Future.
- The demands of
Near-Future Aerospace Vehicles on Wind Tunnels.
- The Next Generation
of Wind Tunnels.
- Advanced Wind
Tunnel Technology.
- A Wind Tunnel Is
Only As Good is its Instrumentation.
- The Future Role of
the Wind Tunnel.
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- Afterword.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
- Baals, Donald D.
- Wind Tunnels of NASA.
- (NASA SP ; 440)
- Includes index.
- Supt. of Docs. no.: NAS 1.21:440
- 1. Wind tunnels. I. Corliss, William R.
II. Title.
- III. Series.
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